Senior Systems Engineer

About the Position

Senior Systems Engineer

Quantum Systems is a pioneer in next-generation unmanned solutions across air, land, and sea. Our systems combine cutting-edge hardware with AI-driven software for seamless control and real-time data insights. Trusted by defense, security, and public sector clients worldwide, we redefine mission versatility and performance.

Quantum-Systems is a strong supporter of Ukraine and has its local Ukrainian office since 2022.

As Senior Systems Engineer you will be responsible for becoming a core member of the newly established Systems Engineering function in Ukraine, supporting the development and evolution of complex unmanned aerial systems and their supporting software, communication, payload, and ground-control components.

This is a full-time office job. Candidates must be located in Kyiv.

Responsibilities

• System Context & Functional Analysis – Translate product capabilities, operational scenarios, and ConOps into a clear technical system context, including system boundaries, actors, operating modes, states, assumptions, and external interactions.
• Trade Studies & Technical Feasibility – Perform structured technical feasibility assessments and trade studies, evaluating alternatives, constraints, risks, and system-level consequences and preparing evidence-based engineering recommendations.
• System Requirements Engineering – Develop, analyze, refine, and maintain system-level requirements that are unambiguous, feasible, measurable, and verifiable, including rationale, applicability, criticality, and traceability.
• System Architecture Development – Contribute to and develop functional, logical, and physical system architectures covering HW, SW, communication, payload, ground-control, and other relevant system elements.
• Requirements Decomposition & Allocation – Decompose system requirements and allocate functions, performance constraints, and technical responsibilities to subsystems and engineering domains while maintaining end-to-end traceability.
• Subsystem Technical Contracts – Define the system-level technical expectations for individual subsystems, ensuring engineering teams have clear requirements, constraints, interfaces, and verification intent without prescribing their detailed implementation.
• Interface Management – Define, coordinate, and maintain cross-domain system interfaces, including mechanical, electrical, RF, data, API, and HW/SW interfaces, and ensure consistency between participating engineering teams.
• System Budgets & Constraints – Support definition, allocation, and assessment of relevant system budgets and cross-domain constraints such as mass, power, timing, bandwidth, computational resources, and performance.
• Verification & Validation Basis – Define how system requirements shall be verified, including verification method, level, configuration, environment, measurable pass/fail criteria, and expected evidence; contribute to the technical basis for capability validation.
• Requirements Traceability – Maintain end-to-end traceability between product capabilities, system requirements, subsystem requirements, interfaces, implementation scope, and verification evidence.
• Engineering Change Impact Assessment – Analyze proposed changes, development constraints, and V&V findings to identify their impact on requirements, architecture, interfaces, configurations, system risks, and verification coverage.
• Technical Risk Management – Identify and assess system-level technical risks, assumptions, uncertainties, and unresolved items and drive them toward technically justified resolution.
• Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration – Work closely with Chief Engineers, Product Managers, Product Owners, HW/SW Team Leads, domain experts, and V&V teams to resolve cross-domain technical topics and maintain overall system consistency.
• Engineering Reviews & Documentation – Prepare and review system requirements, architecture descriptions, interface definitions, trade studies, technical decisions, verification strategies, and other systems engineering artifacts.
• Continuous Systems Engineering Development – Contribute to establishing and improving Systems Engineering methods, templates, tools, and working practices as the function is built and scaled within the organization.

Requirements

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Engineering or a comparable technical discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience, including substantial work on multidisciplinary products or systems combining several of the following domains: mechanics, electronics, embedded systems, software, communication systems, control systems, sensors, or payloads.
• Demonstrated experience working at system or subsystem level, rather than exclusively within a single component or narrow technical discipline.
• Strong practical understanding of requirements engineering, including requirement formulation, decomposition, allocation, verification criteria, and traceability.
• Experience developing or contributing to system architecture, including functional decomposition, subsystem boundaries, allocation of functions, and management of technical constraints.
• Practical experience with system interfaces and cross-functional integration involving multiple engineering disciplines.
• Ability to convert incomplete or high-level product and operational needs into structured and testable engineering definitions without prematurely prescribing a detailed implementation.
• Experience performing technical trade-off analysis, feasibility assessment, and structured engineering decision-making involving competing constraints.
• Good understanding of verification and validation principles, including the relationship between requirements, verification methods, test levels, acceptance criteria, and objective evidence.
• Experience analyzing engineering changes and understanding their cross-system impact on requirements, architecture, interfaces, and verification.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary engineering fundamentals and ability to communicate effectively with specialists from HW, SW, embedded, controls, RF, mechanical, and testing domains.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to distinguish system-level responsibility from subsystem detailed design.
• Ability to communicate complex engineering topics clearly, structure technical discussions, and drive ambiguous cross-functional topics toward explicit technical decisions.
• Strong ownership mindset while being comfortable operating in an environment where technical responsibility is distributed between Chief Engineer, Systems Engineering, and domain engineering teams.
• Fluent English required for technical communication and documentation.

Nice to Have

• Experience in UAV, aerospace, robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, defence, or other complex embedded cyber-physical systems.
• Previous work within a formal Systems Engineering lifecycle using approaches derived from the V-model or comparable development frameworks.
• Familiarity with standards and practices such as ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148, or ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010.
• Experience with requirements and traceability tools such as Jama, DOORS, Jira/Confluence, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with system modelling approaches such as SysML/MBSE is an advantage, but is not a prerequisite.
• Experience with FMEA/FMECA, hazard analysis, system safety, or compliance engineering is advantageous.
• Practical exposure to system integration, laboratory testing, field testing, or flight testing.

We Offer

• We Stand with Ukraine!
• We believe in the power of combined efforts: straightforward tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.
• We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.
• We push limits, think outside the box, and strive for technological excellence to shape the future of aerial data.
• We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.

About the Company

Quantum Systems is a leading provider of next-generation unmanned solutions across air, land, and sea. Our systems combine cutting-edge hardware with AI-driven software for seamless control and real-time data insights. Trusted by defense, security, and public sector clients worldwide, we redefine mission versatility and performance.