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Swarm Aero is building the world's largest swarming UAV fleet and Command & Control software to mobilize thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets. The company is Series A-funded and led by experienced aerospace veterans from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.
As a Systems Engineer, you will own the system architecture that enables autonomous aircraft to operate safely in non-segregated airspace over populated areas, near civilian aircraft, terrain, and airborne threats. You will translate mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications and maintain the digital thread across the entire program lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Maintain and refine system architecture, translating requirements into technical specifications
- Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems
- Lead cross-discipline integration to ensure well-defined and validated subsystem interfaces
- Implement digital thread supporting configuration management
- Perform system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews balancing performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints
- Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) integration testing
- Coordinate with ground and flight test teams to define system verification plans
- Identify, track, and mitigate technical risk across the program lifecycle
- Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation
You will focus in one or more domains including avionics, flight controls, propulsion, landing, software, mission systems, and separation from traffic, terrain, or weather.
Compensation includes meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company, competitive base salary commensurate with experience, medical/dental/vision, 401k, PTO, paid sick leave, monthly wellness stipend, daily catered lunch, and paid parental leave.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms
- Familiarity with authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining system requirements using modern digital tools (Jama, Polarion, JIRA, etc.) for software and hardware
- Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns
- Strong command of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles including modeling, analysis, and simulation with digital connections to requirements
- Deep experience with systems modeling using SysML (e.g., Cameo)
- Hands-on experience driving integration across multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams
- Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models, requirements, and verification artifacts
- Familiarity with systems verification and validation methodologies (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) including digital traceability to requirements
- Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify requirements and system architectures
- US person status required (ITAR compliance: must be US citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from US Department of State)
NICE TO HAVE:
- Background in flight control, avionics, or propulsion subsystem integration
- Experience with ARP4754 in a vehicle or platform development program
- Exposure to defense programs, military airworthiness, or flight authorization processes including MIL-HDBK-516
- Active security clearance
