Associate Electrical Engineer - Avionics Displays

Socket.dev; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Acron Aviation's Displays group is seeking an Associate Electrical Engineer to support development of cockpit display systems for commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms. You will assist senior engineers in electronics design, testing, and verification across the full lifecycle, ensuring safety, reliability, and certification compliance in a highly regulated environment.

You will gain exposure to hardware design, system integration, and collaboration with software, mechanical, and

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Design, develop, analyze, and support digital, analog, and power circuitry for advanced avionics display systems.
• Design, analyze, and test circuits incorporating microprocessors, memory, graphics processors, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, PCIe, LVDS, DisplayPort, and other high-speed display and avionics interfaces.
• Support the integration of display electronics, backlighting systems, video processing hardware, and cockpit display assemblies.
• Support production and resolve factory-related issues impacting assigned display products.
• Generate and review electrical schematics; support and review PCB layouts (Altium preferred).
• Develop change impact analyses and support product lifecycle management initiatives, including obsolescence management, design-to-cost, component risk reduction, and design-for-manufacturability.
• Utilize electrical analysis and simulation tools to evaluate power distribution, signal integrity, thermal performance, and overall system reliability.
• Collaborate effectively across systems, software, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and certification engineering teams.
• Interface directly with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to understand technical issues and develop effective solutions.
• Support hands-on testing, integration, troubleshooting, and environmental qualification activities to validate design performance and compliance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts supporting product reliability, manufacturability, and customer satisfaction.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Display architectures knowledge

Graphics processing hardware

Image generation

Video processing electronics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

Python

C++

Scripting

Job description

Acron Aviation's Displays group is seeking an Associate Electrical Engineer to support development of cockpit display systems for commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms. You will assist senior engineers in electronics design, testing, and verification across the full lifecycle, ensuring safety, reliability, and certification compliance in a highly regulated environment.

You will gain exposure to hardware design, system integration, and collaboration with software, mechanical, and