Senior MBSE Systems Engineer (Defense/Aerospace)

Roboticsconnected; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental Vision

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Paid holiday shutdown

Job summary

AeroVironment in California seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead MBSE-driven systems engineering across defense and commercial unmanned systems. You will decompose requirements, develop architectures, and verify across the V-model.

Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, and integration teams; participate in design reviews, risk analyses, and tech discussions. Willingness to travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Mathematics, CS/Engineering, Electrical, Aerospace, Mechanical, or related field; or equivalent.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Secret clearance.
• 5+ years of experience architecting and supporting complex systems, preferably defense/aerospace.
• Proficiency in MBSE with SysML v1.x and Cameo Enterprise Architect / Cameo Systems Modeler.
• Experience with Jama or similar requirements management tools and end-to-end traceability.

Responsibilities

• Develop system, subsystem, and component requirements specifications with traceability.
• Perform functional analysis and system architecture development using MBSE methods.
• Define and manage system interfaces; create ICDs and related artifacts.
• Contribute to trade studies and analyses (performance, cost, schedule, risk).
• Support verification and validation planning, test plans and procedures, and test execution.
• Engage in customer discussions and participate in design reviews.
• Travel up to 10% for meetings, reviews, integration and test events.

Skills

MBSE

SysML v1.x

Cameo Enterprise Architect

Jama

Requirements management

System architecture

System verification

Communication

Security clearance

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or related field

Master’s degree in Systems Engineering (ABET)

Tools

SysML

Cameo

Job description

AeroVironment in California seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to lead MBSE-driven systems engineering across defense and commercial unmanned systems. You will decompose requirements, develop architectures, and verify across the V-model.

Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, and integration teams; participate in design reviews, risk analyses, and tech discussions. Willingness to travel up to 10%.