Systems Engineer

The role

The Systems Engineer will maintain and refine system architecture from requirements through integration and flight. Work focuses on domains such as avionics, flight controls, propulsion, software, and mission systems.

What you will do

• Maintain and refine the system architecture
• Translate mission and operational requirements into technical specifications
• Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents, and functional decomposition
• Lead cross-discipline integration to ensure subsystem interfaces are defined and validated
• Develop and implement the digital thread for configuration management
• Perform system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews
• Support hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop integration testing
• Coordinate with ground and flight test teams to define verification plans
• Identify, track, and mitigate technical risk
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation

Required qualifications

• 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
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements
• Strong command of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles
• Deep experience with systems modeling using SysML
• Hands-on experience driving integration across multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams
• Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity
• Familiarity with systems verification and validation methodologies
• Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify requirements and system architectures
• US person status required

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

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
• ITAR requirement

About the company

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