Hardware Engineer

Donatech Corporation; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Donatech Corporation is seeking a Hardware Engineer to join a development team delivering an FAA Level D Full Flight Simulator for our customer. You will complete hardware design for power/control systems, motion platform integration, visual displays, avionics interfaces, and related equipment.

You will manage end-to-end integration with facility infrastructure, lead cross-functional teams and drive innovative solutions across complex problems in a fast-paced agile environment.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in developing flight simulation hardware solutions on programs.
• Active development of new mechanical design engineering principles and industry practices.
• Issuing design checking approvals or non-conformance reports through the PLM tool.
• Creating CREO layouts and drawings for ICDs, components, subsystems.
• Developing HW architectures and interfaces between systems.

Responsibilities

• Complete hardware design and development for power and control systems, motion platform integration, visual displays, avionics interfaces, and ancillary equipment.
• Manage end-to-end integration of simulator hardware with building infrastructure including HVAC, electrical distribution, grounding, and fire/smoke monitoring.
• Lead other Hardware Engineers coordinating with engineering, procurement, production planning, manufacturing, and suppliers to meet schedules.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field

Tools

Windchill

Creo

Catia

Zuken

Cameo

Job description

Position would require the candidate to be a W2 employee of Donatech.

US Citizenship/Permanent Resident Required.

The hired engineer will be a Hardware Engineering on a development team that delivers a FAA Level D Full Flight Simulator for our customer.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Complete hardware design and development activities for power and control systems, motion platform integration, visual display systems, avionics interfaces, and ancillary equipment.
• Manage end to end integration of the new simulator hardware with the existing building infrastructure, including HVAC, electrical distribution, grounding, and fire and smoke monitoring systems.
• Lead other Hardware Engineers that synchronizes engineering, procurement, production planning, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure design is completed as scheduled. Develop innovative solutions to a range of complex problems that are consistent with the program objectives.

Basic Qualifications (BQs):

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field
• Experience in developing flight simulation hardware solutions on programs.
• Active development of new mechanical design engineering principles and full demonstrated knowledge of industry practices and related disciplines
• Issuing formal design checking approvals or non-conformance reports through the PLM tool.
• Developing and generating CREO layouts and detailed drawings for ICDs, components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and integration test articles
• Developing and generating HW architectural layouts for system and lower level interfaces between systems and subsystems
• Deriving Hardware and sub tier requirements from customer requirements
• Building BOMs, creating parts, assemblies, and design documentation
• Demonstrated ability to support cross-functional teams through major technical reviews throughout the acquisition lifecycle (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR)
• Experience applying Hardware Engineering processes in an Agile environment.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Windchill, Creo, Windchill and/or Catia, Zuken and Cameo.
• Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in accordance with ASME Y14.5 and demonstrated perform complex system-level tolerance analysis.
• Knowledge of generating hardware architecture, high level interconnects, and deriving requirements from customer and system level flow downs.
• Prior experience in the development, integration, and deployment of flight training systems.
• Leveraged Agile tenets in the execution of the development of software intensive systems, inclusive of driving development of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware, and Test Engineering work products.
• Experience adapting hardware designs to existing climate control systems, ensuring temperature/humidity stability for avionics and motion platforms.
• Experience interfacing with the facility's existing fire detection and suppression infrastructure
• Product design experience in the context of modular open systems architectures (e.g. SOA).
• Experience with Rotary and/or Fixed Wing Aircraft
• Experience with full motion simulators.