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Engineering Administrator, Aircraft

Swarm Aero · Oxnard · On-site

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About Swarm Aero

Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.

About the role

The Aircraft team is moving fast enough that the work of keeping it organized has become a job of its own. We are hiring an Engineering Administrator to take that on, working directly with our Chief Engineer and our Director of Program Management.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years in an administrative, coordinator, or program support role, ideally in a hardware, manufacturing, aerospace, or otherwise technical environment
  • A track record of managing competing priorities and deadlines without dropping details
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the judgment to know which updates need to travel and to whom
  • Comfort working independently. In a company at our stage, nobody will hand you a list every morning
  • Proficiency with Google Workspace or Microsoft Office. Comfort learning new internal tools quickly
  • Discretion with sensitive and confidential information
More about this role

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.

The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.

The Aircraft team is moving fast enough that the work of keeping it organized has become a job of its own. We are hiring an Engineering Administrator to take that on, working directly with our Chief Engineer and our Director of Program Management.

You will own the connective tissue: calendars and meetings, records and documentation, purchase requisitions and incoming parts, recurring reports, and the dozens of small things that otherwise pull engineers away from engineering. When a long lead part is late, you are the person who knows. When a...

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