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# Lead Aircraft Systems Integration Engineer in Firebaugh

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Firebaugh, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, MATLAB, Requirements Traceability, Subsystems, Systems Modeling Language, Systems Integration
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/lead-aircraft-systems-integration-engineer-firebaugh-32249510

## About the Role

* Education: Bachelor's in aerospace, electrical, mechanical or systems engineering, or equivalent practical expertise.
 * Systems experience: 8+ years of aircraft or complex-vehicle systems engineering.
 * Technical leadership: Leadership on systems engineering or integration programs.
 * Subsystem integration: Aircraft subsystem integration across multiple interacting systems, including resolving subsystem issues and troubleshooting engineering prototypes.
 * Functional architecture: Aircraft-level functional architecture ownership or equivalent systems decomposition experience.
 * Interface management: Cross-system interface management across propulsion, batteries, avionics and related aircraft systems.
 * Modes and faults: Defining mode transitions, fault behaviors and safety-related system constraints.
 * Traceability: Maintaining requirements traceability and configuration records.
 * Hands-on integration: Development and integration experience in a hardware or prototype test environment.
 * Work authorization and location: U.S. work authorization without visa sponsorship, and on-site or hybrid work at Eagle Field Airport.

Nice to Have

 * Relevant aircraft: Hybrid-electric, eVTOL or rotorcraft systems experience.
 * MBSE: Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) or SysML experience.
 * Tools: MATLAB/Simulink.
 * AI and automation: Use of AI tools or automation (not mandatory).

## Description

Location: Eagle Field Airport, Firebaugh, CA (Bay Area / Palo Alto candidates ; candidates willing to relocate are welcome)
Schedule: Full-time, direct hire; on-site or hybrid, with hands-on development work and visits to Eagle Field

About the Opportunity

Our client, a California-based aerospace startup, is developing a hybrid-electric drive-and-fly vehicle and is hiring a Lead Aircraft Systems Integration Engineer to own how the whole vehicle works as one system.

As part of the engineering organization under the CTO, you'll own the aircraft-level functional architecture and the interfaces between propulsion, batteries, avionics and other systems, and you'll define how the vehicle moves between drive, flight and conversion modes. It's a hands-on lead role for a systems engineer who has integrated multiple interacting subsystems and troubleshot real prototypes.

What You'll Do

 * Own the architecture: Own the aircraft-level functional architecture and cross-system interfaces.
 * Define the modes: Define drive, flight and conversion modes, and manage mode transitions and fault behaviors.
 * Control the interfaces: Manage interfaces across propulsion, batteries, avionics and related aircraft systems.
 * Resolve competing needs: Balance competing subsystem requirements and lead integration.
 * Troubleshoot prototypes: Lead troubleshooting of integration failures on engineering prototypes.
 * Keep the records: Maintain requirements traceability and configuration records.
 * Manage readiness and safety: Coordinate technical readiness and safety-related system constraints with specialists.