Senior Systems Engineer — Autonomous Flight & MBSE Lead

AeroVironment, Inc.; Oregon (WI); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our design team and help develop a variety of innovative unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications.

The role involves working with controls engineers, allocating requirements, and guiding architectures across stages from concept to validation. The ideal candidate will have 8–12 years in an aerospace systems engineering role, strong Matlab and C/C++, and experience with system-level testing and modeling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 8–12 years of experience in a systems engineering role (Aerospace systems engineering preferred).
• Strong Matlab skills and proficiency with office software and productivity tools.
• Familiarity with electronics and systems related to image collection and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage requirements traceability and evolution through the system development cycle.
• Provide weekly status of system development progress with requirements burn down.
• Allocate requirements to subsystem & engineering coordination.
• Develop instrumented flight test vectors and data acquisition.
• Review and interpret customer specifications effectively.
• Contribute to framework/architecture
• Lead small design teams on various development stages.

Skills

C/C++

Matlab

Systems engineering

Requirements traceability

Data acquisition

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, CSE, EE, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Matlab

Simulink

Ansys

Solidworks

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join our design team and help develop a variety of innovative unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications.

The role involves working with controls engineers, allocating requirements, and guiding architectures across stages from concept to validation. The ideal candidate will have 8–12 years in an aerospace systems engineering role, strong Matlab and C/C++, and experience with system-level testing and modeling.