Swarm Aero
Systems Engineer
Oxnard, CA
No sponsorshipDetected 96 days ago
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About the role
- Our aircraft are complex platforms that will operate at the edge of what's possible in non-segregated airspace and at a variety of altitudes.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world.
- The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.
- The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.
- We need a Systems Engineer who can support the architecture that holds it all together - from requirements through integration and flight.
Requirements
- Bachelors 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
- Deep experience with systems modeling using SysML (e.g. Rhapsody, Cameo, etc.)
- 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
- 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
- Daily catered lunch (office)
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
- A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
Compensation
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
- PTO and paid sick leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Paid parental leave
Company info
- What We're Looking For
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates for this position must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance
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