Senior Systems Engineer

Grex Defense, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Grex Defense, Inc. is seeking a senior systems architect to own the architecture tying airframes, autonomy, propulsion, and payload into a coherent air vehicle.

You'll define requirements, manage interfaces, and trade-off between disciplines on a small, fast team; U.S. person with ability to obtain security clearance, ITAR/EAR compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven systems engineering on aircraft, UAS, or complex electromechanical systems.
• Fluency in requirements, interfaces, and cross-discipline trades.
• Comfort owning architecture end to end on a small, fast team.
• U.S. person status (ITAR/EAR) required
• Eligible to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance
• Active security clearance preferred

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture that ties airframe, autonomy, propulsion, and payload into one dependable machine.
• Define and hold the technical architecture across disciplines — deriving requirements, managing interfaces, and making the trades that keep a complex air vehicle coherent from concept through flight test.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Interface management

Cross-discipline trades

Job description

Own the architecture that ties airframe, autonomy, propulsion, and payload into one dependable machine.

You'll define and hold the technical architecture across disciplines — deriving requirements, managing interfaces, and making the trades that keep a complex air vehicle coherent from concept through flight test.

A senior, hands-on role for someone who has taken air vehicles or complex electromechanical systems through the full lifecycle and can lead without a large staff.

What we look for:

• Proven systems engineering on aircraft, UAS, or complex electromechanical systems
• Fluency in requirements, interfaces, and cross-discipline trades
• Comfort owning architecture end to end on a small, fast team
• U.S. person status (ITAR/EAR) required
• Eligible to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance
• Active security clearance preferred