Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Odyssey has an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Systems Integration Engineer supporting the Helicopter Division (HD) at Wright Patterson AFB, OH.  The HD supports selected helicopter programs including the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) and the MH-139.  The HD has a mission to rapidly deliver and field new and updated rotary wing aircraft.

Duties include, but not limited to: 

• Provide expert-level technical leadership in systems integration of rotary‑wing avionics and electronic subsystems, ensuring seamless interaction between embedded computers, software, digital communication systems, diagnostics, and support equipment throughout the aircraft lifecycle.
• Conduct comprehensive integration engineering analyses covering design‑to‑test, integrated diagnostics, interface control, and subsystem interoperability, identifying system-level impacts and resolving complex avionics and wiring architecture issues.
• Execute airworthiness, safety, OSS&E, and MIL‑STD compliance evaluations, including artifact development for MIL‑HDBK‑516C airworthiness, MIL‑STD‑882 safety, anti‑tamper, IA A&A, and DAFI 63‑1201 lifecycle engineering.
• Facilitate configuration audits (FCA/PCA) and integration readiness activities, validating requirement verification methods, physical configuration integrity, compliance against technical baselines, and closure of integration discrepancies.
• Advise on interface management for electrical, communication, and navigation systems, developing and reviewing Interface Control Documents (ICDs), establishing interface requirements, and resolving cross-subsystem conflicts through integration trade studies.
• Support mission‑critical avionics integration efforts such as tactical data links, position location, interphone systems, display systems, and identification systems, including EMI/RFI considerations and interoperability with crew systems, structures, R&M, and system safety.
• Support integration activities tied to mission planning systems, geospatial/terrain databases, and periodic data updates, ensuring proper technical management of software, database loading equipment, and alignment with airworthiness and operational certification standards.
• Perform high‑fidelity technical reviews of OEM proposals, specifications, design changes, and engineering data, assessing feasibility, compatibility, safety impacts, and cost-benefit implications for WIH rotary‑wing weapon system modifications.
• Lead system-level integration risk management activities, identifying technical risks, developing mitigation plans, supporting deficiency report resolution, and ensuring system-level OSS&E compliance across developmental, operational, and sustainment phases.
• Serve as a key engineering integrator across propulsion, sensors, defensive avionics, wiring, electromagnetic compatibility, survivability, and test activities, ensuring cross-functional technical coordination required for integrated rotary‑wing platforms.

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

Minimum Required Qualifications

Clearance: Secret

Education: 

• ABET accredited Bachelor’s Degree in engineering and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five of which must be in the DoD
• Master’s or Doctorate Degree in a related field and ten years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, five years of which must be in the DoD AND an ABET accredited Bachelor’s Degree in engineering

Technical Skills

• Ability to perform system‑level integration of aircraft subsystems, including evaluation of interfaces, verification methods, and compliance with lifecycle engineering standards (DoDI 5000-series, DAFI 63‑1201).
• Proficiency in conducting technical reviews of OEM specifications, design changes, engineering data, and Interface Control Documents (ICDs), ensuring subsystem compatibility and integration feasibility.
• Experience supporting airworthiness, safety, and OSS&E certification activities, including application of MIL‑HDBK‑516, MIL‑STD‑882, and related engineering standards.
• Skill in identifying system-level technical risks, performing integration risk assessments, developing mitigation plans, and supporting configuration/technical review boards (PDR, CDR, FCA, PCA).
• Ability to support development, integration, and verification of mission‑critical avionics, sensors, or mechanical subsystems through requirements analysis, system modeling, validation, and integration testing.

Additional Information

Location: Wright Patterson AFB, OH

Travel: 20%

Hybrid 

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Odyssey is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military’s operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.

Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares, a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.

Please note: Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as the Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities