Avionics Engineer - ASL - Open Rank

Georgia Tech Research Institute; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Avionics Engineer to design and develop military avionic systems. This role involves creating integrated designs for navigation, tactical data links, and electronic warfare systems while ensuring compliance with military standards. The ideal candidate will have experience in system engineering processes, software development, and troubleshooting. This position offers a hybrid work environment, allowing for flexibility while contributing to vital projects for the Department of Defense. Join a team dedicated to innovation and excellence in technology to make a significant impact on national security.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing military or avionics systems using system engineering processes.
• Ability to integrate and troubleshoot systems for functional correctness.

Responsibilities

• Develop and allocate requirements into system-of-systems performance design criteria.
• Collaborate on technical solutions ensuring compliance with standards.

Skills

System Engineering

Software Development

Troubleshooting

Data Analysis

Technical Leadership

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Python

R

Model-Based System Engineering

Job description

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Project/Unit Description

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) Systems Integration Division (SID) supports systems integration, system design, and product development projects for the Department of Defense (DoD) systems. SID research military systems specializing in avionics, electronic warfare, autonomous systems, intelligence systems, tactical communication/datalink systems; and live, virtual, constructive training solutions. The SID team's engineering roles include Systems Engineering, Algorithm Engineering, Datalink Engineering, and Embedded Software Engineering.

Job Purpose

The Avionics Engineer defines and designs military avionic systems and systems-of-systems. Specifically, the Avionics Engineer develops integrated system-level designs, and hardware and software subsystems designs. These designs are associated to avionic functions such as navigation, tactical data links, electronic warfare, defensive countermeasures, intelligence, and integrated system functions like data fusion and resource management. These design efforts include integrating the avionics systems within the aircraft, aircraft-to-aircraft, and aircraft-to-ground systems. The Avionics Engineer applies knowledge specific to aircraft such as safety (e.g. FAA standards), security, robustness, and performance. Additionally, the Avionics Engineer analyzes laboratory and flight test data for functionality and performance. The Avionics Engineer also provides expertise and technical leadership to programs and sponsors to achieve overall goals through the full development life cycle (i.e., requirements development to final delivery). Tools and methodologies used by the Avionics Engineer includes Model Based System Engineering, laboratory analysis hardware, software development environments, and Agile methodologies.

This position comes with a Hybrid Work Requirement.

Key Responsibilities

• Decompose, develop, and allocate requirements into system-of-systems performance design criteria.
• Collaborate to develop technical solutions and ensure products meet allocated requirements and design criteria as well as comply with military, safety, and security standards.
• Integrate and test system components in a laboratory or on-aircraft environment and analyze test data to determine if system requirements are met and identify deficiencies.
• Develop technical reports, test plans, memos, and diagrams detailing product or system attributes.
• Begin to participate in sponsor engagement contacts.

Additional Responsibilities

• Integrate new capabilities and subsystems into military systems, including the design of inter-software interfaces, inter-subsystem interfaces (e.g., data, interconnects), aircraft to subsystem integration, pilot vehicle interface, and test/instrumentation systems integration.
• Serve as a technical expert on assigned projects and systems including keeping up to date on use models, system capabilities, system interfaces, engineering tools, and road maps for current and future updates.
• Isolate hardware and software component anomalies.
• Analyze flight and laboratory data to ensure system requirements are satisfied.
• Ensure that all technical work is developed to meet military, safety, and security standards.
• Design and manage the laboratory configurations for assigned projects.
• Lead small cross-discipline project teams.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experience designing/developing complex, software-intensive, military or avionics systems using system engineering processes and methodologies.
• Experience designing/developing software-based systems that integrate multiple subsystems, and/or integrate multiple software applications and hardware.
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting systems to determine functional correctness, completeness, and/or effectiveness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Three (3) years post-degree, relevant experience.
• Experience technically leading multi-disciplined (System Engineers, Software Engineers, Test Engineer) project teams.
• Experience developing system design for Electronic Warfare systems.
• Experience processing and analyzing data with tools such as Python or R.
• Experience with avionic data buses (e.g., MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, Ethernet, RS-422, etc), tactical data links (e.g., Link-16), military radios, and open systems architecture frameworks (e.g., FACETM).
• Experience using Model-Based System Engineering (SysML) to design systems (e.g., use cases, behavior, interfaces, data models); Additional DoDAF experience is a plus.
• Experience working in a full-lifecycle agile and/or digital engineering environment.
• Experience supporting field tests to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Experience designing secure and safe system solutions.

Travel Requirements

• 10% - 25% travel.

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook.

• 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or any technical degree.
• 0 years of related experience with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or any technical degree.

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.