Systems Engineer at REGENT in North Kingstown, RI

Job description

At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before. Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen. Role Overview Every certified vehicle runs on a foundation of requirements: what the system must do, how we know it does it, and how that traces back to the regulations that make it safe to fly. As a Systems Engineer on our Certification team, you'll own that foundation for an assigned set of our commercial Seaglider program Viceroy’s systems - authoring, managing, and verifying requirements, deriving them from regulatory documents and system safety analyses, and keeping them traceable as the design evolves. This is a hands-on, artifact-producing role. You'll work directly with team leads across electrical, mechanical, and/or software engineering to derive and verify requirements, author verification procedures, and conduct system safety analyses for the systems you own. You'll manage all of it in our requirements management tool, where requirements traceability has to hold up to regulatory scrutiny. As you ramp, you'll take on more of Viceroy's systems and help sharpen how REGENT organizes this work company-wide. If you’re energized by working at the intersection of cutting-edge innovation, real-world impact, and hands-on engineering, you’ll be in the right place - and we’d be thrilled to have you on the team! What You'll Do • Derive and verify requirements. Work with team leads to author system, high-, and low-level requirements, and create and oversee the verification programs that confirm them. • Work with multidisciplinary design teams. Ensure requirements are being tracked, provide design input and guidance, and help design teams resolve the challenges they hit in satisfying the system's requirements. • Trace requirements to their source. Derive requirements from regulatory documents and standards, and from system safety analyses, keeping traceability current as Viceroy's design evolves. • Conduct system safety analyses. Perform Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for your assigned systems. • Support certification compliance. Help ensure Viceroy's systems meet both international and domestic certification requirements. • Own requirements management. Keep system-level requirements and their traceability to component-level and external requirements accurate and audit-ready. • Improve how we work. Bring recommendations for how REGENT's systems engineering processes and requirements organization can get better as the team and program scale. What You'll Bring • Demonstrated experience working independently on safety-critical systems in a regulated environment such as aerospace, maritime, medical, nuclear, or another highly regulated industry. This is an individual contributor role with meaningful technical ownership, not a people management position. • Strong requirements engineering experience, including developing, documenting, tracing, and maintaining technical requirements throughout the development lifecycle, with hands-on experience using tools such as Jama, Polarion, DOORS, or equivalent platforms. • Experience with system-level testing and verification, including developing test or verification appro