Systems Engineer
Swarm Aero
•$140,000 - $200,000
About The Position
Swarm Aero is developing aircraft designed for swarming and Command & Control software for coordinating large numbers of heterogeneous autonomous assets. The Systems Engineer will support the architecture connecting the aircraft’s systems, from requirements through integration and flight. The role may focus on avionics, flight controls, propulsion, landing, software, mission systems, or separation from traffic, terrain, or weather.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms.
- Familiarity with authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining system requirements using modern digital tools such as Jama, Polarion, or JIRA for software and hardware.
- Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns.
- Strong command of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles, including modeling, analysis, and simulation with digital connections to requirements.
- Deep experience with systems modeling using SysML, such as Cameo.
- Hands-on experience driving integration across multidisciplinary hardware and software teams.
- Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models, requirements, and verification artifacts.
- Familiarity with systems verification and validation methodologies, including test, analysis, inspection, and demonstration, with digital traceability to requirements.
- US person status required.
Nice To Haves
- Background in flight control, avionics, or propulsion subsystem integration.
- Experience with ARP4754 in a vehicle or platform development program.
- Exposure to defense programs, military airworthiness, or flight authorization processes, including MIL-HDBK-516.
- Active security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and refine system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into technical specifications.
- Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems.
- Lead cross-discipline integration to ensure subsystem interfaces are defined and validated.
- Develop and implement the digital thread supporting configuration management.
- Perform system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews to inform architecture decisions balancing performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) integration testing, including investigating and resolving anomalies.
- Coordinate with ground and flight test teams to define system verification plans and close requirements through analysis and test artifacts.
- Identify, track, and mitigate technical risks across the program lifecycle, escalating issues with data-driven recommendations.
- Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation.
- Define, validate, refine, and verify requirements and system architectures.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company.
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k).
- PTO and paid sick leave.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Daily catered lunch at the office.
- Paid parental leave.
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
