Staff Systems Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Work with a world class team of Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Design Engineers in Denver, developing innovative sUAS product lines and peripherals.
• Own the system requirements, and engineering baseline as part of PDW's portfolio of unmanned aircraft systems, payloads, mission systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Partner with Product Management, our go-to-market team, and operational stakeholders to ensure our system requirements meet mission needs, product strategy and are complete, verifiable, and traceable.
• Lead Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) activities by developing and maintaining digital system models, architecture products, and engineering artifacts using tools such as SysML.
• Develop and manage system, subsystem, and interface requirements spanning aircraft, payloads, tactical radios, networking, autonomy, embedded software, and ground control systems.
• Conduct trade studies that balance mission effectiveness, technical risk, manufacturability, scalability, cost, schedule, and long-term product evolution.
• Develop and maintain system requirements, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), requirements traceability matrices, verification plans, and technical review packages.
• Support technical planning and support system integration, laboratory testing, flight testing, verification, validation, and customer demonstrations.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or related engineering discipline, such as mechanical, electrical, software, etc.
• 8+ years of experience developing complex aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or unmanned aircraft platforms from concept through production.
• Demonstrated experience applying Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies using SysML and industry-standard digital engineering tools.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining system requirements, interface definitions, verification strategies, and technical baselines for multidisciplinary systems.
• Experience developing or integrating systems such as small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), mission payloads, tactical communications, RF systems, networking, autonomy, or embedded systems.
• Strong understanding of systems integration, networking architectures, payload integration, verification and validation, configuration management, and the engineering product lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical decisions and trades while influencing engineering direction without direct organizational authority.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with engineering, test, product and go-to-market teams.