Senior Systems Engineer — Uncrewed Systems & V&V

Talentify; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K matching

9/80 schedule

Paid holidays

Job summary

AeroVironment is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to partner with our Design Team on Uncrewed Systems development for defense and commercial applications. You will help define requirements, architecture, and tests across multiple development stages, collaborating with design engineers to meet customer needs.

The role spans requirements definition, concept design, prototyping, verification testing, and cross-functional coordination, requiring strong communication and leadership in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5–8 years of engineering design/development experience.
• Experience in component and system-level testing.
• Experience in requirements allocation from system to subsystem.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present technical information.

Responsibilities

• Develop, analyze, allocate, and maintain system, subsystem, and interface requirements throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Maintain bidirectional traceability of system requirements, subsystem requirements, verification methods, and test results.
• Provide weekly status of system development progress with requirements burndown to team leads and program managers.
• Evaluate system performance thresholds and provide design recommendations.
• Define verification and validation strategies, including test methods and success criteria.
• Develop and support execution of test plans for bench, SIL, HIL, integration, ground, and flight tests for Uncrewed Systems.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements analysis

Team leadership

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/CS/Engineering

Tools

Jama Connect

IBM DOORS

JIRA

Confluence

Simulink

Ansys

SolidWorks

Job description

AeroVironment is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to partner with our Design Team on Uncrewed Systems development for defense and commercial applications. You will help define requirements, architecture, and tests across multiple development stages, collaborating with design engineers to meet customer needs.

The role spans requirements definition, concept design, prototyping, verification testing, and cross-functional coordination, requiring strong communication and leadership in a fast-paced