Senior Aerospace Systems Engineer - MBSE & Verification

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

Job summary

Swarm Aero is seeking a senior systems engineer to advance the architecture of a high‑impact swarming UAV network in the United States. You will translate mission requirements into clear, verifiable system specifications and drive MBSE practices across avionics, flight controls, propulsion, and software domains.

You will lead cross‑discipline integration, develop ICDs, and support verification activities from design reviews to flight tests, shaping a scalable digital thread and ensuring

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms.
• Familiarity with authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining system requirements using modern digital tools for software and hardware.
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns.
• Strong command of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles including modeling, analysis, and simulation with digital connections to requirements.
• Deep experience with systems modeling using SysML (e.g. Cameo).
• Hands-on experience driving integration across multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams.
• Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models, requirements, and verification artifacts.
• Familiarity with systems verification and validation methodologies including digital traceability to requirements.
• Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify requirements and system architectures.

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 that 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 drive architecture decisions
• Support hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop 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 issues with data-driven recommendations
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation

Skills

MBSE

SysML

Requirements writing

Systems integration

Digital thread

Traceability

V&V methodologies

Tools

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

Cameo

Job description

Swarm Aero is seeking a senior systems engineer to advance the architecture of a high‑impact swarming UAV network in the United States. You will translate mission requirements into clear, verifiable system specifications and drive MBSE practices across avionics, flight controls, propulsion, and software domains.

You will lead cross‑discipline integration, develop ICDs, and support verification activities from design reviews to flight tests, shaping a scalable digital thread and ensuring