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.

) Base Salary: $155,000 to 235,000 USD The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of

for full-time employees, including: Platinum Healthcare

: Atropos offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with 100% employer-paid premiums and little to no cost to you Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Atropos, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents Unlimited PTO, with minimum of 15 days enforced 20 weeks of paid Caregiv

About The Role

As a Senior Model Based Systems Engineer at Atropos, you will be pivotal in driving the design, development, testing, and implementation of cutting-edge flight system technologies for our clean sheet uncrewed aerial systems. Atropos relies on a dynamic learning culture that is founded on accelerated knowledge acquisition through modeling, simulation, analysis, and rigorous and frequent ground and flight test experimentation. At Atropos, you will be involved in the full life cycle of the systems you develop.

What You’Ll Do

Serve as system-level SE: derive and allocate

Requirements

, maintain traceability in Cameo and Jama, or like-systems. Lead functional hazard analyses (FHA), system safety assessments (SSA), and PSSA. Run model-based systems-engineering (MBSE) artifacts in Cameo.

Coordinate verification matrix and conformity inspections for airworthiness and certifications. Act as chief integrator between tech areas. S.

in Aero, SE, or ME; >7 yrs aircraft systems-engineering leadership.

quickly. S. Top Secret security clearance.

Bonus Points INCOSE CSEP or ESEP. Prior autonomous or optionally piloted aircraft certification experience.

Compensation

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factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

package.