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Southwest Research Institute

LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Systems Engineer - Aerospace/Avionics

san antonio, TX

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Southwest Research Institute lists this LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Systems Engineer - Aerospace/Avionics opportunity in san antonio, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

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Who We Are: The Tactical Aerospace Department is a premier supplier for aerospace quality Complex Electronics on new and legacy DoW systems. This includes avionics, mission LRU's, flight worthy payloads, ground aerospace systems, and cutting edge third generation AI/ML for DoD platforms. This position is located on-site at either of our San Antonio, TX, Dayton (Beavercreek), OH, or Warner Robins, GA facilities. Objectives of this Role: Responsible to develop System level and LRU centric Architectures. Lead the development of CONOPS, develop requirements, requirement allocation, build, integrate, and test. Guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to develop hardware, firmware, and software for complex flight worthy avionics/mission LRU's/payload hardware. Interact directly with clients to establish system requirements and architectures to meet client expectations. Provide technical project leadership throughout each program. Utilize Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes to support system designs/architectures. Support department management in specific technical marketing activities, proposal development of embedded systems, and in the development of product/technical roadmaps. Daily and Monthly Responsibilities: System Engineer over embedded avionics/aerospace programs. Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test embedded complex flight worthy systems. Meet with internal and external customers to establish system technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures. Lead trade analyses within and across the relevant domains. Work with stakeholders to allocate functions to components/systems and develop those allocations into requirements for the engineers, designers, and managers to design, develop, integrate and test. Requirements: Requires a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent engineering degree field with related experience. 10+ years: Experience developing, deriving, and allocating tiered Systems Engineering requirements in Avionics applications/LRU's. Broad, basic understanding of engineering activities/disciplines in avionics development (e.g. Systems, Hardware Development, Firmware, software, Integration, Testing, Bid and Proposal efforts, CONOPS, Qualification, Certification, System Safety, FMEA, Lab activities, etc). Experience developing CONOPS and System/LRU Architectures and basic/Intermediate experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE). A valid/clear driver's license is required.

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