Senior Systems Engineer - Unmanned Defense Systems

avav; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401K matching

9/80 schedule

Holiday shutdown

Job summary

AV is a premier autonomous systems company in the U.S. that develops unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications. The Sr.

Staff Systems Engineer works with the Design team to allocate requirements and develop architectures to drive simulation models, interfacing with Controls Engineers across stages from requirements definition through verification. This role focuses on requirements traceability, system performance evaluation, and developing test plans while mentoring others and

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.
• 12-15 years of experience in a systems engineering role (Aerospace systems engineering preferred).
• Proficiency with C/C++ and Matlab required.
• Has managed requirements traceability and evolution through the system development cycle.
• Demonstrated prior experience in providing effective weekly status of system development progress with requirements burn down.
• Has developed systems test plans, procedures and reports and reviewed and interpreted specifications.
• Experienced in writing Systems Safety protocols and ensuring personnel safety during field testing.
• Strong Matlab skills and is proficient with office software and computer based productivity tools.
• Familiarity with electronics and systems related to image collection and analysis.
• Ability and interest in creating Architectures using Model Based Engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Oversee 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.
• Evaluate system performance thresholds and providing direction.
• Develops instrumented flight test vectors and data acquisition.
• Provide input for model development and simulation analysis.
• Develop systems test plans, procedures and reports.
• Review and interpret customer specification effectively.
• Identifies, analyzes and resolves system design weaknesses. Influences the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework (architecture) used across multiple products or systems.
• Work on significant issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to others in both their discipline and on company values.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

C/C++

Matlab

Requirements traceability

System engineering

Model Based Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Simulink

Ansys

Solidworks

Python

ROS

Job description

AV is a premier autonomous systems company in the U.S. that develops unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications. The Sr.

Staff Systems Engineer works with the Design team to allocate requirements and develop architectures to drive simulation models, interfacing with Controls Engineers across stages from requirements definition through verification. This role focuses on requirements traceability, system performance evaluation, and developing test plans while mentoring others and