LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Avionics Engineer

San Antonio, Texas


Employer: Southwest Research Institute
Industry: 
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

Who We Are:

Our Team, Tactical Aerospace, is a premier supplier for aerospace and avionics systems. We design, develop and manufacture avionics, mission computers, payloads, sensors, AI systems, and test/training systems for defense systems.

Objectives of this Role:

  • Design architectures within a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) environment and then lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test complex Avionics/Aerospace systems.
  • Work collaboratively to establish hardware requirements for complex flight worthy avionics and/or aerospace hardware.
  • Interact directly with clients and company staff to establish system requirements and architectures to meet client expectations.
  • Support Department management in specific marketing activities, writing proposals, and developing product/technology roadmaps.


Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

  • Develop complex embedded avionics/payloads for new, sustainment and modernization programs.
  • Develop, integrate, and test software within complex embedded avionics. This may include leading a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Meet with internal and external customers to establish technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures.
  • Lead trade studies within and across the relevant domains.
  • Support department roadmaps, IRAD's, marketing, and Strategic planning.


Requirements:

  • Requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent Engineering degree with related experience.
  • 8+ years: Related Experience developing, deriving, allocating and testing complex avionics requirements.
  • Experience implementing RTOS’s (preferred Green Hills or DEOS)
  • Experience designing avionic architectures, especially in a multi-partition RTOS environment (preferred to understand partitioning techniques to account for partitions with various levels of DO-178 DAL’s and necessary certification artifacts).
  • Experience leading engineering teams.
  • Shown experience/understanding of engineering activities/processes in Avionics development (e.g. system architecture/design/requirements, architecture, requirements, test, requirement traceability, LDRA, certification artifacts, integration, metrics, etc).
  • Experience with DO-178 processes
  • Experience with integrating software onto hardware and debugging within a lab environment utilizing equipment such as logic analyzers, power supplies, etc.
  • A valid/clear driver's license is required


Special Requirements:

Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.

Job Locations: San Antonio, Texas

For more information about this division, visit the Defense & Intelligence Solutions home page.

For benefits information at our San Antonio location, click here .
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An Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disabled/Veteran
Committed to Diversity in the Workplace

Created: 2024-04-14
Reference: 16-01396
Country: United States
State: Texas
City: San Antonio
ZIP: 78112


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