Jobs at Swarm Aero

Develop and scale manufacturing processes for autonomous aircraft, including composite and metallic components. Design tooling, fixtures, and assembly aids; create work instructions and process documentation; troubleshoot production issues; improve manufacturability, quality, throughput, and efficiency; and support prototype builds and transitions to repeatable aircraft production. The role requires hands-on collaboration with design, fabrication, production, and engineering teams.

Maintain aerospace system architectures, requirements, interface documentation, and digital traceability across aircraft subsystems. Lead multidisciplinary integration, trade studies, HIL/SIL testing, verification planning, technical risk mitigation, and airworthiness documentation for swarming UAV platforms. The role supports domains including avionics, flight controls, propulsion, software, mission systems, and traffic or terrain separation.

Develop and deploy onboard swarm autonomy: perception, planning, control, multi-target tracking, inter-robot/C2 protocols, on-vehicle software integration, realistic UxS simulation, train and test ML-based target recognition, and electronics prototyping. Travel for test events up to 25%.

Leads the quality engineering function for aerospace manufacturing, building the quality team, management system, certification program, supplier quality processes, inspection controls, and corrective action systems. Partners with design, manufacturing, materials, suppliers, and operations to improve production quality, throughput, and predictability. The role requires establishing ISO 9001 and AS9100 compliance, supporting composite production, and scaling manufacturing from early builds to high-rate production.

Own the design and sizing of primary and secondary aircraft structures from concept through first flight and production. Responsibilities include composite and metallic design, CAD and FEA, structural analysis, loads development, drawings, manufacturing collaboration, tooling, structural testing, vendor coordination, and first-article support. The role integrates propulsion, landing or recovery systems, payload bays, and control surfaces while ensuring designs meet aviation and DoD certification requirements.

Lead aircraft structural analysis and component sizing from concept through certification. Perform hand calculations and FEA on composite and metallic structures, develop and maintain analysis standards, automate workflows, support manufacturability, and guide junior engineers. Collaborate cross-functionally on prototype and production aircraft designs while ensuring performance, cost, safety, and regulatory compliance.

Lead aircraft and system safety analyses for autonomous swarming UAS, including FHA, FTA, SSA, CCA, and CMA. Derive safety requirements, define development assurance levels, and collaborate with engineering teams on redundancy, fault containment, and hazard mitigation. Support design, test, and flight readiness reviews; address safety implications of autonomous flight and signal loss; prepare flight authorization inputs; and lead root-cause and corrective-action planning for safety issues.

Own and expand customer adoption of Legion software by understanding mission needs, identifying opportunities, managing complex accounts, and translating customer requirements to engineering teams. Develop proposals, white papers, presentations, and analyses while coordinating mission execution across multiple stakeholders. The role requires technical curiosity, experience with complex hardware and software systems, comfort with government or military customers, 25–75% travel, and eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret clearance.

Build Swarm Aero’s marketing function and brand from the ground up. Responsibilities include corporate identity, technical storytelling, internal communications, launches, defense industry events, media relations, executive communications, employer branding, agency management, budgets, vendors, and hiring. The role partners closely with founders and recruiting, supports defense and government audiences, and promotes autonomous aircraft and command-and-control software.

Provides day-to-day IT support and Microsoft 365 administration, including Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, licensing, access, MFA, onboarding, and offboarding. Provisions and maintains employee hardware, troubleshoots endpoint, identity, application, permissions, and network issues, documents processes, and improves automation. Partners with systems administrators while developing capabilities in Intune, conditional access, SSO, networking, cloud infrastructure, security, compliance, and automation.

Own full-cycle recruiting for manufacturing, industrial, quality, tooling, and production roles across sites in Oxnard and Northwest Arkansas. Build talent pipelines through schools, trade programs, manufacturers, veterans, and community partners while supporting factory launches and production scaling. Recruiters may also support aircraft, supply chain, and operations hiring. The role requires strong manufacturing knowledge, high-growth hardware recruiting experience, and the ability to hire both hourly and leadership talent.

Own full-cycle recruiting for mission, defense business development, business operations, finance, real estate, and marketing roles. Lead senior and first-of-kind searches, advise hiring managers, build talent pipelines, recruit defense and national security professionals, and close high-impact candidates. The role requires strong market knowledge, executive search capability, and credibility across defense, government, and startup environments.

Owns month-end close, general ledger accuracy, reconciliations, inventory and cost accounting, government contract cost structures, billing, revenue recognition, audits, AP, expense reporting, and internal controls. The role also researches accounting treatments, documents processes, and helps implement scalable accounting systems as the defense aerospace company grows.

Lead guidance, navigation, and control development for autonomous swarming aircraft. Responsibilities include designing flight-control, payload-management, and autonomy algorithms; developing modeling and analysis tools; improving simulation fidelity; and testing and validating GNC systems across simulation, subscale, ground, and full-scale flight environments.

Design, analyze, test, and integrate avionics enclosures and secondary aircraft structures for autonomous UAVs. Create mechanical models, drawings, and interface control documents; develop mounts and brackets; apply design standards, GD&T, materials, manufacturing processes, coatings, and sealants. Collaborate with suppliers on manufacturability, investigate flight-test anomalies, perform root-cause analysis, and support airworthiness documentation and flight authorization packages.

Develops and implements manufacturing processes for advanced autonomous aircraft, including composites and metallic components. Builds production facilities, procures equipment, designs tooling, creates manufacturing documentation, conducts feasibility and production-readiness reviews, and leads prototype production through full-scale manufacturing. Collaborates with aircraft designers on design for manufacturing and supports quality-control activities in a fast-paced aerospace and defense environment.

Lead end-to-end design and development of composite aircraft structures including CAD modeling, initial sizing, structural analysis, DFM, prototype and production support, and cross-functional coordination. Establish design standards, mentor junior engineers, and ensure manufacturability and compliance with aviation and DoD certification requirements.

Develop and extend real-time embedded software for aircraft avionics, autonomy, and ground-control systems. Integrate sensors, payloads, networking, and aircraft capabilities; build SIL/HIL test architectures; develop simulation models; and own software through hardware bring-up, integration, testing, and vehicle-level troubleshooting. The role involves safety-critical aerospace software and collaboration across hardware and software teams.

Support composite aircraft fabrication, tooling, bonding, curing, trimming, finishing, inspection, material characterization, coupon testing, process trials, and data analysis. Investigate manufacturing issues, identify root causes, develop corrective actions, and create technical documentation such as work instructions, test reports, and process specifications. The intern will own a scoped project and present the results while working in laboratory and manufacturing environments.

Own top-of-funnel sourcing for software engineering roles, including backend, frontend, autonomy, and forward-deployed positions. Within the first year, expand into sourcing aircraft talent across propulsion, structures, avionics, manufacturing, and production. Responsibilities include researching candidates on GitHub, writing personalized outreach, building effective searches, managing requisitions, maintaining accurate recruiting data, and partnering directly with hiring managers in a fast-paced defense technology startup.