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Staff Systems Engineer, Air Vehicle Software

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Shape customer needs into air vehicle and subsystem software requirements and develop system engineering artifacts to support airworthiness certification for a Group 5 autonomous aircraft.

Role type

Staff Systems Engineer (Air Vehicle Software)

Builds

Group 5 autonomous aircraft systems

Domain

Defense / Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) / Aerospace

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

System Engineering lifecycle management, Airworthiness certification, Subsystem software requirements, Contingency management software architecture, SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, Model-based system engineering (BDDs, IBDs, parametric diagrams), MIL-HDBK-516C, MIL-STD-882E, ARP-4761, ARP-4754A, DO-178C, DO-254, MIL-STD-881

Preferred skills

Cameo MagicDraw, Digital Engineering workflows, Integrated Modeling Environments (Teamwork Cloud), High ownership and autonomy across end-to-end systems engineering lifecycle

Technologies

SysML, DoDAF, UAFP, BDDs, IBDs, parametric diagrams, MIL-HDBK-516C, MIL-STD-882E, ARP-4761, ARP-4754A, DO-178C, DO-254, MIL-STD-881, Cameo MagicDraw, Teamwork Cloud

Responsibilities

Shape customer needs into air vehicle and subsystem software requirements in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, Develop System Engineering artifacts including system models to trace from stakeholder inputs through design, Communicate and manage program risks in conjunction with Chief Engineer and Program Management

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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