Autonomous Systems Design Engineer - Visa Sponsor

SYOS Aerospace; Mount Maunganui; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Career growth

Competitive salary

Continuous learning

Job summary

SYOS Aerospace in Mount Maunganui, NZ, is seeking a Systems Design Engineer to shape architecture, integration, and validation of autonomous systems. You will translate stakeholder needs into clear system designs and ensure cross-domain performance across hardware, software and autonomy teams.

This role involves leading requirements management, ICDs, test strategies, and coordinating hardware-software integration to deliver reliable, high-performance unmanned systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering field.
• Experience in aerospace, robotics, or autonomous systems preferred.
• Strong understanding of architecture, requirements management, and integration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and internal teams to gather, analyze, and document functional and non-functional system requirements.
• Translate high-level needs into detailed, verifiable system requirements and manage them throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain system architecture, defining major subsystems and their interfaces for seamless integration.
• Evaluate and compare technical design options to select the most effective architecture.
• Create and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) to ensure subsystems communicate effectively.
• Plan and coordinate the integration of hardware and software components into unified, reliable systems.
• Design and execute rigorous testing strategies to verify system performance and validate that all requirements are met.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes of anomalies, and work collaboratively to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Serve as a central communication hub between engineering teams to facilitate system-wide coherence and collaboration.
• Support continuous improvement by feeding test and performance insights back into system designs.

Skills

Systems engineering

Architecture

Requirements management

System integration

JIRA

Confluence

DOORS

Testing methodologies

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

DOORS

Job description

SYOS Aerospace in Mount Maunganui, NZ, is seeking a Systems Design Engineer to shape architecture, integration, and validation of autonomous systems. You will translate stakeholder needs into clear system designs and ensure cross-domain performance across hardware, software and autonomy teams.

This role involves leading requirements management, ICDs, test strategies, and coordinating hardware-software integration to deliver reliable, high-performance unmanned systems.