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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
- A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
