LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Avionics Engineer at Southwest Research Institute

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