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The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.\n\nThe team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.\n\nOur aircraft are complex platforms that will operate at the edge of what's possible in non-segregated airspace and at a variety of altitudes. We need a Systems Engineer who can support the architecture that holds it all together — from requirements through integration and flight.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nMaintain and refine the system architecture, translating mission and operational requirements into clear technical specifications\n\nDevelop and maintain system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional decomposition across aircraft subsystems\n\nLead cross‑discipline integration across avionics, propulsion, structures, autonomy, and ground systems to ensure that subsystem interfaces are well‑defined and validated\n\nDevelop and implement the digital thread that supports configuration management\n\nPerform system‑level trade studies and participate in design reviews to drive architecture decisions that balance performance, risk, schedule, and mass constraints\n\nSupport hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) and software‑in‑the‑loop (SIL) integration testing, including investigation and resolution of 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