Aerospace Systems Engineer — UAVs & DoD Programs

Actalent; Texas; On-site; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

HSA

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Time Off

Job summary

Actalent is hiring a Systems Engineer to support unmanned and manned aircraft platforms and unmanned ground vehicles. You will manage the full lifecycle from concept through design, integration, test, and deployment.

You will lead trade studies, develop test strategies, and ensure traceability across requirements, design, and test within the V-model framework. The role requires collaboration with software and hardware teams in a defense/aerospace setting.

Qualifications

• Experience developing system requirements and architectures with a multidisciplinary team.
• Involvement in requirements definition, design, integration, and test.
• Strong understanding of V-model traceability from requirements to test.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer needs to derive and allocate requirements to system elements.
• Develop architectures for aircraft and UGV systems aligned to objectives.
• Create system design docs: ICDs, schematics, interface definitions.

Skills

MBSE

DoD clearance

UAV experience

V-model

Systems engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Tools

ICDs

SysML

Modeling tools

Requirements mgmt

Job description

Actalent is hiring a Systems Engineer to support unmanned and manned aircraft platforms and unmanned ground vehicles. You will manage the full lifecycle from concept through design, integration, test, and deployment.

You will lead trade studies, develop test strategies, and ensure traceability across requirements, design, and test within the V-model framework. The role requires collaboration with software and hardware teams in a defense/aerospace setting.