Lead Systems Engineer, Aerospace MBSE & Flight

Swarmaero; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive base salary

Medical, dental, vision

PTO and paid sick leave

Wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch

Paid parental leave

Direct impact on national security

Job summary

Swarm Aero in the United States seeks a senior systems engineer to refine and maintain the overall architecture for our swarming UAV program. You translate mission requirements into clear technical specifications and drive MBSE across avionics, flight controls, and software teams.

You will develop system requirements, ICDs, and functional decompositions, lead cross‑discipline design reviews, and support HIL/SIL testing, balancing performance, risk, and schedule.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems engineering on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms.
• Ability to author, negotiate, manage, and maintain system requirements using modern digital tools (e.g. Jama, Polarion, JIRA).
• Strong MBSE principles with modeling, analysis, and simulation linked to requirements.
• Deep experience with SysML (e.g. Cameo).
• Hands-on experience coordinating multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams.
• Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models and artifacts.
• Familiarity with verification and validation methodologies with traceability to requirements.
• US person status required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and refine the system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Focus in one of several domains including avionics, flight controls, propulsion, landing, software, mission systems, and separation from traffic, terrain, or weather.
• Develop and maintain system requirements, ICDs, and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems.
• Lead cross-discipline integration to ensure 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 balance performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints.
• Support HIL and 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 with data-driven recommendations.
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation.

Skills

MBSE

SysML

Requirements engineering

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

MBSE modeling

Tools

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

Job description

Swarm Aero in the United States seeks a senior systems engineer to refine and maintain the overall architecture for our swarming UAV program. You translate mission requirements into clear technical specifications and drive MBSE across avionics, flight controls, and software teams.

You will develop system requirements, ICDs, and functional decompositions, lead cross‑discipline design reviews, and support HIL/SIL testing, balancing performance, risk, and schedule.