Avionics Subsystems Systems Engineer

Creotech Instruments; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Creotech Instruments seeks a systems engineering professional to derive, allocate, and manage subsystem and equipment requirements with full traceability to system-level requirements. You will coordinate technical interfaces between avionics, platform subsystems, payload, and flight software.

You will support decision-making, perform trade studies, manage risk, and conduct analyses across the subsystem and equipment lifecycle, including verification, qualification, and testing activities.

Qualifications

• MSc or higher degree in aerospace engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with systems engineering processes.
• Experience with requirements engineering and interface management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a systems-thinking approach.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Derive, allocate, and manage subsystem and equipment requirements with full traceability to system-level requirements.
• Managing technical interfaces between avionics equipment, platform subsystems, payload, and flight software.
• Supporting technical decision-making, trade studies, and risk management for subsystem and equipment level solutions.
• Perform analyses and maintain avionics budgets such as power, processing, data throughput, memory, and communication bandwidth.
• Define subsystem and equipment verification and support qualification and acceptance testing.
• Support anomaly investigations, risk management, and engineering change activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead subsystem level FMEA/FMECA

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Interface management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

English proficiency

Education

MSc or higher in Aerospace Engineering or related field

Tools

Doors-like RM tool

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Derive, allocate, and manage subsystemand equipmentrequirements with full traceability to system-level requirements.
• Managing technical interfaces between avionics equipment, platform subsystems, payload, and flight software.
• Supporting technical decision-making, trade studies, and risk management for thesubsystem and equipment level solutions.
• Performapplicableanalyses and maintain avionics budgetssuch aspower, processing, data throughput, memory, and communication bandwidth.
• Define subsystemand equipmentverification and support qualification and acceptance testing.
• Support anomaly investigations, risk management, and engineering change activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead subsystem level FMEA/FMECA

Basic qualifications:

• MSc or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Well established understanding of systems engineering processes;
• Experience with requirements engineering, interface management
• Experience preparing technical specifications, ICDs, and verification documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a systems-thinking approach.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in systems engineering of spacecraft avionics or complex aerospace electronic systems.
• Strong knowledge of spacecraft avionics, including OBDH, EPS, TT&C, and onboard communication protocols (e.g., SpaceWire, CAN, Ethernet).
• Familiarity with spacecraft development standards (ECSS, CCSDS, or equivalent).
• Hands-on experiencein requirements definitionand management using Doors-like requirements management tool
• Experience in working on systems with flight heritage (TRL 9);
• Experience in working with European Space Agency,European Commission and European Defense Agency.