Description About the role You'll be the connective tissue of our engineering team — owning the system-level architecture, requirements, and integration strategy across hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems. Our products are safety-critical, field-deployed systems built to demanding performance and reliability requirements. This role requires someone who can hold the big picture while diving into subsystem details when it matters. What you'll do: • Own the system-level architecture: define how hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems interact, and document it in a way the whole team can build against. • Develop and maintain system requirements — derive subsystem requirements, manage traceability, and own the requirements baseline. • Lead integration planning: define interfaces, manage dependencies across subsystems, and coordinate bring-up and qualification activities. • Drive system-level verification and validation — test planning, execution, anomaly resolution, and sign-off. • Identify and track system-level risks; develop mitigations before they become fielding problems. • Serve as the technical lead in design reviews, interface control discussions, and customer/government technical meetings. • Translate operational requirements and customer needs into actionable engineering constraints. Required: • 8+ years of systems engineering experience on defense, aerospace, robotics, or other complex, safety-critical programs. • Deep understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle: requirements development, architecture, ICD management, V&V planning, and qualification. • Experience managing interfaces across hardware, embedded software, and mechanical subsystems. • Comfort reading and authoring engineering documentation: interface control documents, test plans, hazard analyses, and SSPs. • Proven ability to lead technical coordination across a multidisciplinary team. • Working English, written and verbal. Nice to have: • Experience with DoD acquisition programs, MIL-STD-882 (system safety), or MIL-STD-461/810. • Background in UAV systems, autonomous systems, or defense payload integration. • Familiarity with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools (Cameo, Rhapsody, or similar). • Experience supporting government program reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR) or formal qualification events. • Active security clearance or eligibility. How we work: You'll work across the full team — hardware, software, and mechanical — and be the person who catches integration problems before they reach the test range. We expect clear documentation, decisive recommendations, and the ability to hold a technical position under scrutiny.