Systems Engineer

About the role

We need a Systems Engineer who can support the architecture that holds it all together — from requirements through integration and flight.

What You'll Do

• Maintain and refine the system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications
• Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems
• Lead cross-discipline integration across avionics, propulsion, structures, autonomy, and ground systems to ensure that subsystem interfaces are well-defined and validated
• Develop and implement the digital thread that supports configuration management
• Perform system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews to drive architecture decisions that balance performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) integration testing including investigation and resolution of 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 risk across the program lifecycle, escalating issues with data-driven recommendations
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms
• Familiarity with authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining system requirements using modern digital tools (e.g. Jama, Polarion, JIRA, etc.) 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 (e.g. Rhapsody, Cameo, etc.)
• Hands-on experience driving integration across multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams
• Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models, requirements, and verification artifacts
• Familiarity with systems verification and validation methodologies (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) including digital traceability to requirements
• Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify requirements and system architectures
• Candidates for this position must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance

Nice to Have

• 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

What We Offer

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
• PTO and paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Daily catered lunch (office)
• Paid parental leave
• Direct impact on a critical national security mission
• A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems