Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer Job Description

This Systems Engineer role supports a new, highly technical development program focused on a first-of-its-kind power architecture for a new class of aircraft. You will build structured requirements from the ground up, ensure full traceability, and drive system architecture and certification readiness in a hardware-heavy, front-end engineering environment. The position offers significant influence over requirements definition and system architecture, along with high visibility and direct interaction with customers.

• Lead the capture, decomposition, and flow-down of system requirements for a new development program.
• Write, organize, and maintain structured requirements documentation, including reverse engineering legacy designs into clear, traceable requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability and alignment with FAA design assurance standards and other applicable certification requirements.
• Support system verification and validation activities, including test planning, execution oversight, and documentation of results.
• Contribute to safety analyses and reliability assessments to ensure system robustness and compliance with relevant standards.
• Create and manage Supplier Data Requirements Lists to clearly define and control supplier deliverables.
• Develop qualification and acceptance test plans, procedures, reports, and compliance matrices to demonstrate system conformity.
• Support key program milestones such as Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), and Production Readiness Review (PRR).
• Coordinate and manage technical changes across cross-functional teams, ensuring consistent implementation and documentation.
• Participate in weekly customer meetings, provide technical updates, and support overall program execution.
• Support design reviews and collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering teams to resolve technical issues.
• Apply strong systems engineering judgment to understand system-level design tradeoffs and their impacts on performance, reliability, and certification.

• Extensive experience (7+ years, mid-career ideal) in systems engineering, with a strong focus on R&D and new product development.
• Proficiency with requirements management tools, with DOORS highly preferred, or similar tools such as CaliberRM, Jama, or comparable platforms.
• Demonstrated ability in requirements capture, decomposition, and flow-down for complex systems.
• Experience supporting design reviews and working within structured design and development processes.
• Background in mechanical or electrical engineering with a strong systems engineering foundation.
• Experience working with rotating machinery or propulsion systems, including an understanding of vibration and rotor dynamics.
• Experience with thermal analysis of electronics and comfort working in hardware-heavy, non-software-centric environments.
• Familiarity with system verification and validation processes, including test plan development and execution.
• Experience with safety analyses and reliability assessments for high-reliability systems.
• Ability to understand and evaluate system-level design tradeoffs and their impacts on performance and certification.
• Experience with or understanding of standards such as ARP
  4754A (required) and ARP
  4761A (required).

• Master’s degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, aerospace, or related discipline) preferred.
• Experience using SCADA or similar tools in support of system monitoring and control is beneficial.
• Familiarity with additional standards such as DO-160 (environmental), DO-254 (hardware QA), and MIL-STD-704E (270V DC systems) is a plus.
• Experience deriving requirements for subassemblies and coordinating with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Background in other high-reliability systems such as energy, turbines, or military vehicles.
• Magnetics knowledge, including fields and generators, is desirable.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) experience involving electrical and mechanical integration.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with…