Senior Systems Engineer

Aerospace is at a turning point — costs are rising, supply chains are strained, and old ways of building can’t keep up. At Neon Aero, we’re breaking that mold. We move fast, think big, and combine start-up agility with aerospace expertise to design, build, and scale aircraft in ways the industry has never seen. Our team leverages automation, AI-driven tools, and a fully connected digital backbone to accelerate innovation and reduce barriers to production.

Here, you won’t just take a job — you’ll help reinvent how the world flies. If you’re ready to solve complex problems, push technology further, and work alongside some of the brightest minds in aerospace, this is your chance to make a real impact.

The Systems Engineer will execute Neon’s requirements, architecture, and traceability work on active aerospace programs, applying the frameworks and processes established by the Systems Engineering Architect. This role owns requirements decomposition, system models, interface definitions, and verification traceability for assigned systems, from customer specification through certification evidence.

As a core member of a small Systems Engineering team, the Systems Engineer will deliver directly against program milestones such as PDR and CDR, strengthen Neon’s system development process, and grow toward technical leadership as Neon scales.

• Requirements Engineering
  • Author, decompose, and maintain system and subsystem requirements in Neon’s requirements management tool, with traceability to customer specifications and allocation to hardware, software, and other engineering disciplines.
  • Analyze customer requirements for completeness, verifiability, and ambiguity, and prepare clarification and change requests for customer review.
  • Execute requirements reviews, baselining, and change impact analysis in accordance with Neon’s work instructions and ARP
    4754A/B processes.
• Build and maintain SysML models of system architecture, behavior, and interfaces in accordance with Neon’s modeling conventions.
• Link requirements from the requirements management tool to SysML elements to support allocation, trade studies, and design analysis.
• Keep models aligned with program baselines as requirements and designs evolve.
• Interfaces & Integration
  • Define and control internal and external interfaces, including interface control documents (ICDs) with customers and suppliers.
  • Support system integration planning and work with design and test teams to resolve integration issues.
• Develop verification plans, verification cross-reference matrices, and verification methods (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) for assigned requirements.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from requirements through design, analysis, and verification evidence across requirements management, MBSE, and PLM tools.
• Prepare systems engineering deliverables for design reviews and certification data packages.
• Work daily with mechanical, electrical, software, safety, test, and certification engineers to keep requirements and designs aligned.
• Support customer technical interchanges and requirements coordination.
• Identify process and tooling improvements, including opportunities to apply Neon’s AI tooling to systems engineering workflows.

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in aerospace or complex systems development, with at least 2 years in a systems engineering role.
• Working knowledge of ARP
  4754A/B requirements development, flow-down, and verification processes.
• Hands‑on experience authoring and managing requirements in a requirements management tool.
• Experience building or contributing to SysML models.
• Familiar…