[Hiring] Associate Systems Engineer @AeroVironment

Role Description

The Associate Systems Engineer Part-Time (PT) position works with the Design Team to develop innovative uncrewed systems for defense and commercial applications. Candidate will work alongside experienced systems engineers to support the design, development, and integration of advanced unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their subsystems.

• Assist in designing and implementing Digital Engineering and Digital Thread solutions to seamlessly connect lifecycle data across engineering domains.
• Support the development of AI-ML automation models to optimize workflows, analyze complex datasets, and streamline repetitive engineering processes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to build, clean, and preprocess data pipelines necessary for training machine learning algorithms.
• Learn foundational DevOps methodologies by actively participating in the maintenance of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Provide basic technical support for automated environments, helping troubleshoot infrastructure alerts and build failures.
• Gain hands-on exposure to containerization tools like Docker and version control workflows using Git to manage code infrastructure.
• Document system requirements, testing workflows, and software deployment steps to improve team knowledge sharing.
• Participate in agile team meetings, technical training sessions, and cross-functional code reviews to accelerate engineering skills.

Qualifications

• Must be a high school graduate.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Currently enrolled or recently completed post-secondary program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong background and interest in one or more of: software development, embedded software development, software testing, data analysis.

Requirements

• Experience with integrating machine learning algorithms into larger processes and systems.
• Competency in unit testing and debugging.
• Familiarity with GitHub and/or GitLab.
• Proficiency with object-oriented programming (e.g. Java, JavaScript, C++, Python) with the ability to write clean, well-documented code.
• Participation in extracurricular student engineering competitions.

Physical Demands

• Ability to work in both office and manufacturing environments. (constant)
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods and frequently talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard. (frequent)

Special Requirements

• U.S. citizenship, U.S. permanent residency (Green Card) as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), is required.
• Must be able to travel domestically within the continental United States and internationally, if required.

Benefits

• AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.

ITAR Requirement

This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.