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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Swarm Aero
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Systems Engineering, JIRA, Configuration Management, Network Interface Controllers, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), Systems Modeling Language, Systems Architecture, Jama (Software), Integration Tests, Polarion
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/systems-engineer-swarm-aero-10491317

## About the Role

* 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 (e.g. 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

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

ITAR requirement

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

## Description

* Maintain and refine the system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications

 * Focus in one of several domains including avionics, flight controls, propulsion, landing, software, mission systems, and separation from traffic, terrain, or weather

 * Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems

 * Lead cross-discipline integration to ensure that subsystem interfaces are well-defined and validated

 * Develop and implement the digital thread that supports configuration management

 * Perform system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews to drive architecture decisions that balance performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints

 * Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) integration testing including investigation and resolution of anomalies

 * Coordinate with ground and flight test teams to define system verification plans and close requirements through analysis and test artifacts

 * Identify, track, and mitigate technical risk across the program lifecycle, escalating issues with data-driven recommendations

 * Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation