Chief System Engineer

Chief System Engineer focuses on lead avionics and flight systems architecture across uav platforms.

What the role involves

• Lead avionics and flight systems architecture across UAV platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and engineering authority across multidisciplinary teams.
• Driving integration of embedded software, flight control systems and autonomy stacks.
• Leading complex technical decisions, system trade-offs.
• Oversee detailed technical documentation and system specifications.
• Supporting verification, validation and flight test activities.

Skills and requirements

• Extensive experience in avionics systems and aircraft systems engineering.
• Experience defining system architecture for complex aerospace platforms.
• Ability to produce high-quality technical documentation and engineering specifications.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary aerospace engineering teams.

Confirmed role details

• The position is ideal for a principal-level avionics or systems engineer looking to step into a Chief Engineer.
• Technical Authority role within a fast-moving aerospace environment.
• The organisation already has strong hardware capability in place, and this role will bring deep systems and software expertise to complement the existing avionics leadership.

Candidate fit

• technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving