LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Aerospace Systems Engineer

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 or Dayton (Beavercreek), OH facilities.

Objectives of this Role:

• Responsible to develop System level and LRU Architectures.
• Lead the development of CONOPS, develop requirements, requirement allocation, 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.
• Must be willing to travel.
• 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. This includes electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, and AI/ML.
• 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.