Senior Systems Engineer, AR/VR Flight Systems

Red-6; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (Medical), Dental, Vision

Paid time off

Disability insurance

FSA

401(k)

Voluntary benefits

Discretionary bonus potential

Job summary

Red 6 is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to drive the Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS) across the full product lifecycle. You will lead requirements, architecture, and interface work, coordinating hardware, software, optics, test, and airworthiness teams to ensure mission readiness and compliance.

The role emphasizes MBSE, system integration, and formal design milestone reviews in a cross-functional environment supporting complex aircraft systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related STEM field.
• 12+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, or mission-critical system development.
• Experience across the full systems development lifecycle, from early concept and requirements through design, integration, verification, validation, production, and operations & maintenance.
• Proficiency with requirements management tools and products, including requirements development, decomposition, tracing, validation and verification.
• Experience authoring and reviewing Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Concepts of Operation, Trade Studies, Documentation Trees, Engineering Management Plans, Engineering Change Packages or similar systems engineering artifacts.
• Experience supporting or leading formal design milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and cross-team coordination.
• Demonstrated familiarity with the software development lifecycle and software architecture, including the integration of software within complex hardware and mission systems.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD documentation standards and defense acquisition lifecycle processes.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance. This requires U.S. Citizenship

Responsibilities

• Lead cross functional teams across Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, and Systems Integration & Test to align technical execution, drive solutions, and guide discussions.
• Develop, decompose, and manage system and subsystem requirements using approved requirements management tools.
• Establish and maintain the Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix (RVTM), ensuring bidirectional traceability from system requirements through verification artifacts.
• Develop and manage Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for internal and external system integrations (hardware, software, avionics, and platform interfaces).
• Lead and support design milestone reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, and SVR.
• Apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies (SysML) to develop system architectures, functional decompositions, use cases, and interface models.
• Conduct trade studies and technical analysis to support design decisions and performance optimization.
• Manage allocations of weight, power, and other system resources across components.
• Coordinate and oversee system integration and verification activities in both lab and aircraft environments.
• Identify and manage technical risks, ensuring mitigation plans are in place.
• Serve as a technical point of contact across internal teams and with external partners to ensure alignment on system design and performance.

Skills

Aerospace engineering

Systems engineering

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

MBSE SysML

Interface Control Documents (ICDs)

Requirements management

Design milestone reviews (SRR, PDR, CD

Trades studies & technical analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Technical communication

DoD Secret security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related STEM field

Master’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field

Tools

Cameo

MagicDraw

Rhapsody

Job description

Red 6 is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to drive the Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS) across the full product lifecycle. You will lead requirements, architecture, and interface work, coordinating hardware, software, optics, test, and airworthiness teams to ensure mission readiness and compliance.

The role emphasizes MBSE, system integration, and formal design milestone reviews in a cross-functional environment supporting complex aircraft systems.