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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.

Develop and optimize detection, tracking, and multi-sensor fusion algorithms (Kalman/particle filters, multi-target tracking) for resource-constrained UAVs. Train and deploy neural networks for ATR, design distributed swarm fusion, validate against flight data and simulation, and optimize models for real-time edge inference. Travel up to 25% for tests.

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.