Senior Aerospace Software Systems Engineer

Swarm Aero; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive salary

Healthcare

401k

Paid time off

Wellness stipend

Office lunch

Parental leave

Mission impact

Job summary

Swarm Aero is developing autonomous swarming UAVs and the software that makes them reliable. We seek a Software Systems Engineer to lead software standards, refine architecture, define interfaces, and drive verification across aircraft subsystems, collaborating with propulsion, avionics, and flight-control teams.

You will produce verification artifacts, participate in design reviews, and help ensure airworthiness and flight authorization documentation while advancing a cutting-edge national

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in aerospace systems engineering with a focus on software.
• Experience writing clear, verifiable, and testable requirements.
• Familiarity with Jama, Polarion, JIRA for requirements management.
• Experience with software development standards for civil/military aviation (DO-178, DO-254).
• Ability to obtain US Government clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of software standards, process, and development approaches.
• Maintain and refine the software system architecture.
• Derive software requirements from functional decomposition of aircraft subsystems.
• Define clean interfaces for software interoperability.
• Collaborate with propulsion, avionics, and flight control design engineers.
• Produce and manage verification artifacts for requirements traceability.
• Participate in design reviews to balance performance, risk, and complexity.
• Support HIL/SIL integration testing and anomaly resolution.
• Coordinate with test teams to define software verification plans.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks across the program lifecycle.
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation.

Skills

Systems engineering

Aerospace domain

Requirements writing

Interface definition

V&V testing

DO-178/DO-254

Jama/Polarion/JIRA

US clearance

Tools

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

Job description

Swarm Aero is developing autonomous swarming UAVs and the software that makes them reliable. We seek a Software Systems Engineer to lead software standards, refine architecture, define interfaces, and drive verification across aircraft subsystems, collaborating with propulsion, avionics, and flight-control teams.

You will produce verification artifacts, participate in design reviews, and help ensure airworthiness and flight authorization documentation while advancing a cutting-edge national