Senior Aerospace Software Systems Engineer

Swarmaero; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Salary commensurate with experience

Medical/Dental/Vision/401k

PTO and sick leave

Wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch

Parental leave

Impact on national security mission

World-class engineering team

Job summary

Swarm Aero is building the world's largest swarming UAV platform and a robust C2 software network to enable swarms of autonomous assets. We seek a Software Systems Engineer to ensure reliable software across subsystems, and to work with propulsion, avionics, and flight control teams.

You will lead standards, architecture, and verification efforts, while navigating DO-333, DO-178/254, MIL-STD-882, and related regulatory guidelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems engineering on aerospace/UMS/defense platforms with a software focus.
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, testable requirements using industry patterns.
• Experience authoring/maintaining requirements with modern tools (e.g. Jama, Polarion, JIRA).
• Expertise in software development and verification for civil or military aircraft.
• Experience with formal verification methods (e.g. DO-333).
• Familiarity with software standards for civil aviation (DO-178, DO-254).
• Experience with military safety standards handbooks (MIL-STD-882, JSSSEH).
• 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 engineers.
• Produce and manage verification artifacts for requirements traceability.
• Participate in design reviews to balance performance, risk, schedule, and complexity.
• Support HIL/SIL integration testing and anomaly resolution.
• Coordinate software verification plans with test teams.
• Identify, track, and mitigate technical risk across the program lifecycle.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements writing

Software verification

Civil/military aircraft

DO-333 knowledge

DO-178/DO-254 knowledge

MIL-STD-882/JSSSEH

Clearance readiness

Tools

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

Job description

Swarm Aero is building the world's largest swarming UAV platform and a robust C2 software network to enable swarms of autonomous assets. We seek a Software Systems Engineer to ensure reliable software across subsystems, and to work with propulsion, avionics, and flight control teams.

You will lead standards, architecture, and verification efforts, while navigating DO-333, DO-178/254, MIL-STD-882, and related regulatory guidelines.