- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- DaytonOhioUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Aug 18, 2026
- Salary
- $111,500–$170,000 a year
Lead System Engineer, Model Based System Engineering
Job description
The Advanced Research and Development (ARD) Division is searching for a Lead Engineer to drive digital engineering and model-based system engineering for full system development lifecycle. The full system development cycle includes Modeling and simulation, proof-of-concept prototyping, minimum viable products, developmental test and evaluation, and system transition to operations. The ideal candidate has worked in this area for DARPA and Service Labs as well as the US Air Force, US Navy, or the US Army.
AV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.
We don’t just build defense technology—we redefine what’s possible.
Job responsibilities
- Support/lead system architecture development and decomposition using MBSE (SysML/Cameo) to define interfaces, functions, and allocation across multiple domains
- Support automation of MBSE SysML model creation with ARD and other DISBU divisions,
- Support/lead the program in implementing MBSE as part of the broader digital engineering ecosystem
- Support management in maintaining cost, schedule, risks, issues, opportunities, and technical baselines for ARD IRADs and contracts, and support identification, tracking and proactive management of metrics for program…
Job requirements
- Masters Degree or PhD in Electrical, Software, Computational Neuroscience Engineering discipline (or equivalent).
- 5+ years systems engineering experience to include but not limited to system design, functional decomposition, requirements development, analysis, verification, and validation
- Experience with MBSE, Cameo/MSOSA, and/or SysML
- Experience developing and/or managing program baselines
- Demonstrated experience developing system architectures for complex aerospace vehicles or subsystems using MBSE (SysML/MSOSA)
- Performing or closely supporting development of architecture, requirements and verification for RF systems (Communications, radar, electromagnetic environmental effects (E3), etc.) or RF test systems/facilities.
- Prior leadership in system architecture or lead systems engineering roles; experience communicating architectural tradeoffs to stakeholders and customers
- Understanding of various engineering analyses, including affordability, safety, reliability, maintainability, testability, human systems integration, survivability, vulnerability, susceptibility,
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