Software Systems Engineer
Swarm Aero1 month ago
Oxnard, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead implementation of software standards, processes, and development approaches.
- Maintain and refine software system architecture and define clean interfaces for interoperability.
- Derive software requirements from aircraft-subsystem functional decomposition.
- Produce and manage verification artifacts for requirements traceability.
- Participate in design reviews and balance performance, risk, schedule, and complexity constraints.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop integration testing, including anomaly investigation and resolution.
- Coordinate with ground and flight-test teams to define software verification plans.
- Identify, track, and mitigate technical risk across the program lifecycle.
- Contribute to airworthiness and flight-authorization documentation.
- Work with propulsion, avionics, and flight-control design engineers.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software-focused systems engineering experience on aerospace, defense, or UAS platforms.
- Strong foundation in systems engineering principles and practices.
- Ability to write clear, verifiable, and testable requirements using industry-standard patterns.
- Familiarity with modern digital requirements-management tools such as Jama, Polarion, and JIRA.
- Expertise in software development and verification for civil or military aircraft.
- Experience with formal verification and validation methods such as DO-333.
- Experience with civil-aviation software standards such as DO-178 and DO-254.
- Experience with military safety standards and handbooks such as MIL-STD-882 and JSSSEH.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. government security clearance.
- Background in flight control, avionics, or propulsion subsystem integration is preferred.
- Experience with ARP4754 and ARP4761 is preferred.
- Exposure to defense programs, military airworthiness, or flight-authorization processes, including MIL-HDBK-516, is preferred.
- U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations is required under ITAR.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company.
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Paid time off and paid sick leave.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Daily catered lunch at the office.
- Paid parental leave.
- Opportunity for direct impact on a national-security mission.
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About Swarm Aero
Swarm Aero develops swarming unmanned aircraft and command-and-control software that coordinate thousands of heterogeneous autonomous drones for defense and national security operations. The privately held company, founded in 2022, is building an aircraft purpose-built for swarm deployments and a distributed perception and sensor-fusion stack to give operators a shared picture of the battlespace.