Updated August 3, 2026

21 open positions

MBSE Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ mbse jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 9 new this week. Hiring companies include AV, JetZero, and The Aerospace Corporation.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

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Ground Systems Digital Engineer

Parsons Corporation

HybridHuntsville, USA

70 · Great9 day fortnight$112k – $196k

Enterprise Systems Engineer - Force Design Integration

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridCrystal City, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$117k – $227k

Systems Engineer - Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Safety

L3Harris Technologies

OnsiteYorba Linda, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$93k – $172k

Systems Engineer III

OnsiteHuntsville, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight

Systems Analyst III

OnsiteHuntsville, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight

Systems (Integration) Analyst III

OnsiteHuntsville, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight

Digital Systems Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridEl Segundo, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Space Systems Engineer

General Atomics

OnsiteEnglewood, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Systems Integration & Test Engineer

28d

Cobham Ultra

HybridSan Diego, USA

69 · Good9 day fortnight

Digital Systems Engineer

13d

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridChantilly, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$87k – $130k

Systems Engineer

23d

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$82k – $136k

Systems Engineer 4

1mo

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$121k – $202k

Lead Systems Engineer

1mo

L3Harris Technologies

OnsiteMillersville, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Systems Engineer

1mo

General Dynamics UK

HybridHastings, UK

60 · Good9 day fortnight£46k – £60k

Principal System Design Engineer

3mo

General Dynamics UK

OnsiteOakdale, UK

60 · Good9 day fortnight£59k – £80k

Staff Digital Twin Engineer

17d

Graphcore

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cabin & Cargo Systems Engineering

1mo

JetZero

OnsiteGreensboro, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$160k – $195k

Cabin & Cargo Engineering

1mo

JetZero

OnsiteGreensboro, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$160k – $195k

Senior EWIS Wiring Engineer

2mo

JetZero

OnsiteLong Beach, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Systems (Integration) Analyst III

OnsiteHuntsville, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight

Lead System Engineer, Model Based System Engineering

1mo

OnsiteDayton, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight$112k – $170k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Mbse on this page include AV, JetZero, and The Aerospace Corporation. Mbse roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Mbse is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Mbse roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Mbse across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Mbse hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Mbse roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Mbse candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Mbse on current listings.