Electrical/Avionics Systems Integration Engineer

Lockheed Martin; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 96,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) match

Paid time off

Flexible work arrangements

Life Insurance

Long-Term Disability

Job summary

Lockheed Martin in Huntsville, AL, seeks an Electrical/Avionics Systems Integration Engineer to design and validate electrical architectures, analyze power margins, and manage wiring harnesses for defense platforms.

The role requires developing subsystem specifications, overseeing hardware integration, and supporting HIL/SIL tests while ensuring safety and standards adherence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical/electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, or closely related field (master’s preferred).
• Minimum 5 years of experience integrating electrical systems into missiles, aerospace, or defense platforms.
• Proven track record with power distribution, wiring harness design, and connector technology.
• Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment and verification.
• Active and current Secret Clearance; US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the electrical architecture (block diagrams, schematics, ICDs).
• Perform power-budget analysis, load-analysis, and thermal-electrical trade studies to validate margins.
• Define and route wiring harnesses, select connectors, coordinate mechanical routing constraints with structure team.
• Translate system-level electrical requirements into detailed subsystem specifications with traceability.
• Oversee electrical assembly and integration of sub-systems, ensuring proper fit and continuity.
• Create and execute electrical verification plans.
• Identify electrical risks, develop test matrices, and conduct fault-injection or surge testing.
• Maintain configuration-management records.
• Provide technical support during HIL/SIL test events and troubleshoot anomalies.
• Ensure electrical compatibility analysis across stakeholders and safety/standards compliance.

Skills

Electrical systems

Avionics integration

Wiring harness design

Requirements traceability

Power distribution

Education

Bachelor's in electrical/ electronic or aerospace engineering

Tools

Electrical test equipment

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Electrical/Avionics Systems Integration Engineer

• Develop and maintain the electrical architecture (block diagrams, schematics, ICDs)
• Perform power-budget, load-analysis, and thermal-electrical trade studies to validate margins.
• Define and route wiring harnesses, select connectors, and coordinate mechanical routing constraints with the structure team.
• Translate system-level electrical requirements into detailed subsystem specifications and keep full traceability in the requirements-management tool.
• Oversee electrical assembly and integration of sub-systems, ensuring correct fit, connector mating, and continuity.
• Create and execute electrical verification plans
• Identify electrical-related risks, develop risk-reduction test matrices, and conduct fault-injection or surge-testing activities.
• Maintain configuration-management records
• Provide technical support during hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) test events and troubleshoot anomalies.
• Responsible for electrical compatibility analysis of the system, coordinating across all stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with safety and standards
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical/Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field (master’s preferred).
• Minimum 5 years of experience integrating electrical systems into missiles, aerospace, or defense platforms
• Proven track record with power distribution, wiring harness design, and connector technology.
• Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment and verification
• Active and current Secret Clearance. Thus US citizenship is required

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with telemetry protocol standards, digital signal processing, embedded firmware/software integration and EMI/EMC management
• Strong power-budgeting and thermal-electrical analysis skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills to interact with subsystem leads, test-operations, and senior leadership.
• Excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis capabilities for complex HW/SW interactions
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $95900.00 - $178100.00

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Benefits offered

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
• For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.