Senior Systems Engineer, Unmanned Systems & Simulation

avav; Moorpark (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Holiday shutdown

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. in California seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to collaborate with the Design team on unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications. You will interact with Controls Engineers to allocate requirements and develop architectures to drive simulation models.

The role covers requirements definition, concept design, prototyping, validation and verification testing, with opportunities to lead design activities and coordinate cross-functional teams.

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).
• Proficiency with C/C++ and Matlab required.
• Has managed requirements traceability and evolution through the system development cycle.
• Provided an effective weekly status of system development progress with requirements burn down.

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.
• Evaluate system performance thresholds and providing direction.
• Work with Senior Staff Engineers in developing instrumented flight test vectors and data acquisition.
• Provide input for model development and simulation analysis.
• Review and interpret customer specification effectively.

Skills

C/C++ proficiency

Matlab

Requirements traceability

Systems architecture

Data acquisition

Flight test vectors

Team coordination

Education

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

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Simulink

Ansys

SolidWorks

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. in California seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to collaborate with the Design team on unmanned systems for defense and commercial applications. You will interact with Controls Engineers to allocate requirements and develop architectures to drive simulation models.

The role covers requirements definition, concept design, prototyping, validation and verification testing, with opportunities to lead design activities and coordinate cross-functional teams.