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The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.\nThe team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.\nOur aircraft will operate in non-segregated airspace, over populated areas, and in proximity to civilian aircraft, other swarming assets, terrain, and airborne intruders including threats. We need someone who can support the architecture that holds it all together, from requirements through integration and flight.\nWhat You'll Do\nMaintain and refine the system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications\n\nFocus in one of several domains including avionics, flight controls, propulsion, landing, software, mission systems, and separation from traffic, terrain, or weather\n\nDevelop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems\n\nLead cross-discipline integration to ensure that subsystem interfaces are well-defined and validated\n\nDevelop and implement the digital thread that supports configuration management\n\nPerform system-level trade studies and participate in design reviews to drive architecture decisions that balance performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints\n\nSupport hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) integration testing including investigation and resolution of anomalies\n\nCoordinate with ground and flight test teams to define system verification plans and close requirements through analysis and test artifacts\n\nIdentify, track, and mitigate technical risk across the program lifecycle, escalating issues with data-driven recommendations\n\nContribute to airworthiness and flight authorization documentation\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n7+ years of systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms\n\nFamiliarity with authoring, negotiating, managing, and maintaining system requirements using modern digital tools (e.g. Jama, Polarion, JIRA, etc.) for software and hardware\n\nAbility to write clear, verifiable, and testable system requirements using industry-standard patterns\n\nStrong command of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) principles including modeling, analysis, and simulation with digital connections to requirements\n\nDeep experience with systems modeling using SysML (e.g. Cameo)\n\nHands-on experience driving integration across multi-disciplinary hardware and software teams\n\nExperience maintaining configuration control and digital continuity across models, requirements, and verification artifacts\n\nFamiliarity with systems verification and validation methodologies (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) including digital traceability to requirements\n\nAbility to define, validate, refine, and verify requirements and system architectures\n\nUS person status required\n\nNice to Have\nBackground in flight control, avionics, or propulsion subsystem integration\n\nExperience with ARP4754 in a vehicle or platform development program\n\nExposure to defense programs, military airworthiness, or flight authorization processes including MIL-HDBK-516\n\nActive security clearance\n\nITAR requirement\nTo 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.\nSwarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. 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