Sustaining Systems Engineer -Aerospace

L&T Technology Services; Gilching; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LTTS seeks an experienced Sustaining Systems Engineer to support troubleshooting, maintenance, integration, and continual improvement of in-flight aircraft connectivity systems.

The role involves analyzing in-service logs, identifying root causes, and advising corrective actions to ensure reliable performance. You will collaborate with manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, and internal teams on requirements, design changes, and verification activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.
• Proven experience in systems engineering, system integration, troubleshooting, or sustaining engineering.
• Experience analysing technical logs, diagnosing system-level issues, and performing root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of system architecture, subsystem interfaces, requirements management, and design verification.
• Experience with technical documentation and engineering change records.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Analyse in-service logs, troubleshoot technical issues, and identify root causes.
• Recommend corrective actions, configuration updates, and software changes.
• Support requirements definition, system design, and subsystem interface analysis.
• Maintain and update system documentation, diagrams, and engineering changes.
• Support aircraft integration activities, testing, and V&V.

Skills

Systems engineering

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a global leader in Engineering and R&D (ER&D) services. With 719 patents filed for 57 of the Global Top 100 ER&D spenders, LTTS lives and breathes engineering. Our innovations speak for themselves – World’s 1st Autonomous Welding Robot, Solar ‘Connectivity’ Drone, and the Smartest Campus in the World, to name a few.

LTTS’ expertise in engineering design, product development, smart manufacturing, and digitalization touches every area of human lives - from the moment one wakes up till the time one goes to bed. With 69 Innovation and R&D design centres globally, we specialize in disruptive technology spaces such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Robots, Digital Factory, and Autonomous Transport.

We are looking for someone with key skills and able to perform the following roles & responsibilities :-

Gilching, Germany

Summary of Core Competencies

Job Summary:

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Sustaining Systems Engineer to support the troubleshooting, maintenance, integration, and continuous improvement of in-flight aircraft connectivity systems. The role involves analysing in-service system logs, identifying root causes of technical issues, recommending corrective actions, and supporting system and subsystem design changes.

The engineer will work closely with aircraft manufacturers, equipment suppliers, service providers, and internal engineering teams to resolve technical issues and ensure reliable system performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse in-service system logs, troubleshoot technical issues, and identify root causes, particularly related to satellite transitions, network switching, and connectivity performance.
• Recommend corrective actions, configuration updates, and software changes to resolve system issues.
• Support systems engineering activities, including requirements definition, verification, system design, and subsystem interface analysis.
• Maintain and update system documentation, requirements, design descriptions, and aircraft interconnect diagrams.
• Support aircraft integration activities, installation, final assembly line (FAL) operations, flight testing, and verification and validation (V&V).
• Coordinate with aircraft manufacturers, equipment suppliers, modem providers, and managed service providers to resolve technical issues.
• Support modem management systems, antenna controllers, auto-commissioning functions, and associated software.
• Reproduce reported issues using system test racks and collaborate with testing teams to validate corrective actions.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience in systems engineering, system integration, troubleshooting, or sustaining engineering.
• Experience analysing technical logs, diagnosing system-level issues, and performing root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of system architecture, subsystem interfaces, requirements management, and design verification.
• Experience preparing and maintaining technical documentation, system diagrams, and engineering change records.
• Familiarity with issue tracking tools such as Jira and documentation platforms such as Confluence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in aerospace, avionics, aircraft systems, or in-flight connectivity systems.
• Knowledge of satellite communications, RF systems, antennas, modems, and satellite network switching.
• Experience supporting aircraft integration, flight testing, final assembly line activities, or V&V.
• Familiarity with requirements management, configuration control, and system-level verification.
• Experience with hardware/software integration and troubleshooting complex interconnected systems.