Senior Systems Engineer

*******Please Note: We do not provide sponsorship, must be a US citizen Job Description We’re seeking experienced Systems Engineers to support the development of swarming UAVs and autonomous command-and-control software designed to coordinate thousands of diverse unmanned assets. Key Responsibilities Maintain and refine system architectures, translating mission and operational needs into clear technical specifications. Develop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems. Lead cross-functional integration, ensuring subsystem interfaces are clearly defined and validated. Develop and implement a digital thread to support configuration management and traceability across models, requirements, and verification artifacts. Conduct system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews, balancing performance, technical 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. Collaborate with ground and flight test teams to develop verification plans and demonstrate requirement compliance through analysis and test evidence. Identify, track, and mitigate technical risks throughout the program lifecycle. Contribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation. Required Qualifications 7+ years of systems engineering experience supporting aerospace, defense, or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Experience authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining hardware and software requirements using tools such as Jama, Polarion, or Jira. Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns. Strong understanding of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), including modeling, analysis, simulation, and connections to requirements. Extensive systems modeling experience using SysML and tools such as Cameo. Hands-on experience driving integration across multidisciplinary hardware and software teams. Experience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across system models, requirements, and verification artifacts. Familiarity with verification and validation methods, including test, analysis, inspection, and demonstration, with traceability to requirements. Ability to define, validate, refine, and verify system requirements and architectures. #J-18808-Ljbffr