Senior Aerospace Software Systems Engineer – UAS

Swarm Aero; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive base salary

Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

PTO and paid 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 largest swarming UAV and a versatile control network. We seek a Software Systems Engineer to ensure reliable software across aircraft subsystems and verification activities, collaborating with propulsion, avionics, and flight control teams.

You will lead standards implementation, refine architecture, derive requirements, and manage verification artifacts while addressing risk and integration testing needs in a defense-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms with a software focus.
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable requirements using industry patterns.
• Experience with modern digital tools for requirements (Jama, Polarion, JIRA).
• Expertise in software development and verification for civil or military aircraft.
• Familiarity with DO-333, DO-178/DO-254, MIL-STD-882, and JSSSEH standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of software standards, processes, and development approaches.
• Maintain and refine the software system architecture.
• Derive software requirements from aircraft subsystem decomposition.
• Define clean interfaces for software interoperability.
• Collaborate with propulsion, avionics, and flight-control design teams.
• Produce and manage verification artifacts for traceability.
• Participate in design reviews to balance performance, risk, and complexity.
• Support HIL/SIL integration testing and investigate anomalies.
• Coordinate with test teams to define software verification plans.
• Identify, track, and mitigate technical risk across the program lifecycle.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements writing

Software development

Verification & validation

Aircraft software standards

Tools

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

Job description

Swarm Aero is building the largest swarming UAV and a versatile control network. We seek a Software Systems Engineer to ensure reliable software across aircraft subsystems and verification activities, collaborating with propulsion, avionics, and flight control teams.

You will lead standards implementation, refine architecture, derive requirements, and manage verification artifacts while addressing risk and integration testing needs in a defense-focused environment.