Industrial Engineer

The role

You will own the development of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test systems and functional testers for autonomous aircraft avionics. This involves designing test architectures, building fixtures, and writing automation to verify hardware and support manufacturing.

What you will do

• Design, build, and bring up HIL systems that connect flight hardware with simulated aircraft systems, sensors, and operating environments.
• Develop functional testers for avionics components and assemblies, including test fixtures, interface electronics, harnesses, instrumentation, and automated software.
• Work with avionics, embedded software, flight controls, and manufacturing teams to turn system requirements into practical tests.
• Develop automated test sequences for nominal operation, fault injection, and recovery behavior.
• Debug electrical, software, and integration issues using schematics, logs, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other bench tools.
• Establish repeatable test methods, configuration control, and useful reporting across engineering and production.
• Improve test coverage, reliability, and execution time as hardware matures and production scales.

Required qualifications

• Experience developing HIL systems, automated hardware test equipment, or functional testers for complex electronic systems.
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting hardware.
• Proficiency in Python, C/C++, LabVIEW, or similar languages and tools used for test automation.
• Experience with embedded interfaces and communication protocols such as CAN, Ethernet, UART, SPI, or I²C.
• Ability to read schematics and develop test fixtures, harnesses, and interface hardware.
• An understanding of how to turn requirements into meaningful test coverage and diagnose failures across hardware and software.
• A track record of taking a test system from concept to a reliable tool other engineers or technicians can use.

Nice to have

• Experience with aircraft avionics, flight computers, sensors, actuators, or power distribution systems.
• Experience integrating real-time simulation environments with physical hardware.
• PCB design experience for test interfaces or support electronics.
• Experience deploying production testers with calibration, traceability, and configuration management.
• Experience executing environmental testing of electronic equipment in accordance with DO-160, MIL-STD-810, SMC-S-016, or similar test standards.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
• PTO and paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Daily catered lunch (office)
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtai

About the company

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The team has aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.