Senior Systems Engineer

Triple Crown; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Triple Crown seeks an experienced Systems Engineer to support swarming UAVs and autonomous command-and-control software coordination of thousands of unmanned assets. You will refine architectures, translate needs into specs, and drive cross-functional integration across aircraft subsystems.

The role emphasizes MBSE, SysML modeling, and use of Jama/Polarion/Jira for requirements. You will contribute to verification plans, risk management, and airworthiness documentation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or UAS.
• Experience authoring and managing hardware/software requirements using Jama, Polarion, or Jira.
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements.
• Strong MBSE knowledge with modeling, analysis, and requirements linkage.
• Extensive SysML modeling experience using Cameo.
• Hands-on experience driving cross-disciplinary integration.
• Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models, requirements, and verifications.
• Familiarity with verification/validation methods and traceability to requirements.
• Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify system requirements and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and refine system architectures translating mission needs into technical specs.
• Develop and maintain system requirements, ICDs, and functional decompositions.
• Lead cross-functional integration with clearly defined interfaces.
• Implement a digital thread for configuration management and traceability.
• Conduct system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews.
• Support HIL/SIL testing and resolve anomalies.
• Collaborate with ground and flight test teams to develop verification plans.
• Identify, track, and mitigate technical risks throughout the program lifecycle.
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation.

Skills

MBSE

SysML

Modeling

Systems integration

Configuration management

Trade studies

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jama

Polarion

Jira

Cameo

Job description

*******Please Note: We do not provide sponsorship, must be a US citizen

Job Description

We’re seeking experienced Systems Engineers to support the development of swarming UAVs and autonomous command-and-control software designed to coordinate thousands of diverse unmanned assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and refine system architectures, translating mission and operational needs into clear technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems.
• Lead cross-functional integration, ensuring subsystem interfaces are clearly defined and validated.
• Develop and implement a digital thread to support configuration management and traceability across models, requirements, and verification artifacts.
• Conduct system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews, balancing performance, technical risk, schedule, and mass constraints.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) integration testing, including investigation and resolution of anomalies.
• Collaborate with ground and flight test teams to develop verification plans and demonstrate requirement compliance through analysis and test evidence.
• Identify, track, and mitigate technical risks throughout the program lifecycle.
• Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience supporting aerospace, defense, or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
• Experience authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining hardware and software requirements using tools such as Jama, Polarion, or Jira.
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns.
• Strong understanding of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), including modeling, analysis, simulation, and connections to requirements.
• Extensive systems modeling experience using SysML and tools such as Cameo.
• Hands-on experience driving integration across multidisciplinary hardware and software teams.
• Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across system models, requirements, and verification artifacts.
• Familiarity with verification and validation methods, including test, analysis, inspection, and demonstration, with traceability to requirements.
• Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify system requirements and architectures.