Systems Engineer

Role Overview

System Requirements and Architecture

• Define and maintain aircraft-level and subsystem-level technical requirements.
• Translate operational, project, and customer needs into clear and testable engineering requirements.
• Develop system architecture, functional breakdowns, technical specifications, and system-level concepts.
• Allocate requirements to engineering teams and subsystems and maintain traceability through verification and testing.
• Support technical trade-off studies and system-level engineering decisions.

Multidisciplinary System Integration

• Coordinate integration of structures, propulsion, drivetrain, landing gear, payloads, cooling, avionics, electrical systems, and flight controls.
• Define and manage mechanical, electrical, thermal, physical, and functional interfaces.
• Review packaging, accessibility, maintainability, weight, and centre-of-gravity considerations.
• Identify design or interface conflicts before assembly and testing.
• Resolve multidisciplinary engineering and integration issues.

Interface and Configuration Management

• Prepare and maintain Interface Control Documents and other system-interface records.
• Coordinate interface requirements across Mechanical R&D, Powertrain, Avionics, Flight Control, Manufacturing, and Assembly, Integration and Testing teams.
• Evaluate engineering-change impacts on connected systems, safety, weight, cost, and schedule.
• Support configuration management and engineering change-control activities throughout the product lifecycle.

Reviews, Analysis, and Risk

• Participate in requirements, preliminary design, critical design, test-readiness, and other engineering reviews.
• Review CAD assemblies, drawings, calculations, specifications, test procedures, and engineering reports from a system-level perspective.
• Conduct system-level assessments covering structural, thermal, vibration, aerodynamic, weight, balance, performance, reliability, and maintainability considerations.
• Support risk assessments, failure analysis, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions.

Verification, Validation, and Testing

• Develop verification and validation plans based on approved system requirements.
• Define verification methods including inspection, analysis, demonstration, and testing.
• Prepare and maintain requirement-verification matrices.
• Support subsystem, ground, integration, environmental, and flight-test activities.
• Review test results and coordinate resolution of issues identified during assembly, integration, testing, and flight operations.

Requirements

• Experience in systems engineering for aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle platforms.
• Ability to define and maintain aircraft-level and subsystem-level technical requirements.
• Ability to develop system architectures, functional breakdowns, technical specifications, and system-level concepts.
• Experience coordinating mechanical, propulsion, avionics, electrical, flight-control, payload, and other subsystem interfaces.
• Ability to conduct system-level assessments and support multidisciplinary engineering analysis.
• Knowledge of verification methods including inspection, analysis, demonstration, and testing.
• Ability to identify technical and integration risks and support corrective and preventive actions.
• Ability to review technical drawings, calculations, specifications, test procedures, and engineering reports.