Senior Systems Engineer, Aerospace MBSE & Architecture

Swarm Aero; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive base salary

Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

PTO and paid sick leave

Monthly wellness stipend

Daily catered lunch (office)

Paid parental leave

Direct impact on national security

World-class engineering team

Job summary

Swarm Aero is redefining air power with the world''s largest swarming UAV and an integrated control network. We seek a senior systems engineer to maintain architecture, drive MBSE across avionics, software, and flight controls, and lead cross-disciplinary integration.

You will define requirements, ICDs, and digital continuity, enabling rigorous verification and flight authorization. You will collaborate with ground and flight teams to ensure interfaces are clear and tested, managing risk and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms.
• Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns.
• Strong MBSE principles including modeling, analysis, and simulation with digital connections to requirements.
• Deep experience with systems modeling using SysML (e.g. Cameo).

Responsibilities

• Maintain and refine the system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Focus on 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 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 balance performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints.
• Support HIL and SIL 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

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

US person status

Tools

Jama

Polarion

JIRA

Cameo

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power with the world''s largest swarming UAV and an integrated control network. We seek a senior systems engineer to maintain architecture, drive MBSE across avionics, software, and flight controls, and lead cross-disciplinary integration.

You will define requirements, ICDs, and digital continuity, enabling rigorous verification and flight authorization. You will collaborate with ground and flight teams to ensure interfaces are clear and tested, managing risk and