About Us We’re a combat-tested group of engineers, operators, and entrepreneurs who believe America’s edge depends on autonomous airpower that’s trusted and deployable today not in 2040. Backed by tier-one investors, we’ve secured the runway - financial, regulatory, and literal - to move at startup speed while tackling a national-security mission that matters. We’ve structured the company for radical ownership: no silos, no “systems integrator” overhead, just tightly knit mission-focused IPTs that live and breathe the hardware and code they ship.

If you thrive where hard-tech ambition meets national-security urgency, you’ll build faster here than anywhere else. Let’s get after it. Culture That Ships Strong Core Values, Startup Execution.

Integrity, Service Before Self, Excellence, Honor, Courage, Commitment—powered by a bias for action and a “figure it out” mindset. Self-Starters Only. You’ll have clear objectives, a blank sheet of paper, and the trust (plus capital) to move fast.

Bureaucracy stays out of your way. One Team, No Tourists. m.

or heat-treating a Ti-6Al-4V spar, everyone sweats the details. We celebrate wins together and own failures together. What’s In It for You Mission With a Pulse.

Every line of code, bracket, or test you deliver expands the toolbox of the warfighter on Day 1 of a conflict. Resources Without Red Tape. VC speed + DoD customer pull: access to test ranges, flight hours, and operator feedback while retaining startup agility.

Career-Defining Upside.

Benefits

, and the chance to see your product deliver in months, not decades.

About The Role

We’re looking for an Avionics Architecture Lead Engineer to own the end-to-end avionics system design for our autonomous aircraft.

Requirements

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for a self-starter who can zoom from high-level architecture down into ICD details, test plans, and flight-test findings.

, ICDs, and acceptance criteria. Review vendor designs, safety artifacts, and test results; hold them accountable to cost/schedule/technical performance. Ensure FAA airworthiness compliance.

Architect the system in accordance with ARP 4754A/4761, DO-178C, DO-254, DO-160, and applicable Part 23/25 guidance.

, safety analyses (FHA, PSSA, SSA), and certification plans. Drive verification & validation. Develop system-level test plans, HIL/LRU integration plans, and test objectives.

Work with test and flight teams to triage anomalies, root-cause issues, and feed fixes back into the architecture. Collaborate across the stack. Partner with Autonomy, GNC, Flight Controls, and Cyber teams to ensure avionics supports robust, resilient autonomous operations.

Communicate clearly with leadership on risk, mitigations, and tradeoffs. S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.

5+ years of relevant experience in avionics systems design and integration on certificated aircraft.

development, ICDs, saf

What You’Ll Do

Own the avionics architecture. Define the end-to-end avionics system, including mission computers, navigation, communications, surveillance, and payload interfaces. ) and define redundancy, partitioning, and data flows.

Lead supplier & subcontractor integration. Serve as primary technical point of contact for avionics vendors and integrators.

Avionics Systems Architect, UAS Programs