LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Systems Engineer - Aerospace/Avionics

Southwest Research Institute; Texas (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Southwest Research Institute is seeking a Sr System Engineer to develop and lead system level and LRU architectures for embedded avionics and mission payloads. You will interact with clients to define system requirements and drive MBSE-based designs across hardware, firmware, and software domains.

You will guide cross-functional teams, perform trade analyses, and allocate functions to components, ensuring traceability from concept to test and integration efforts in a government or DoD context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Systems Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience in avionics systems engineering.
• Experience deriving and allocating system requirements for avionics/LRU.
• MBSE experience.
• Valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• System Engineer over embedded avionics/aerospace programs.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test embedded complex flight worthy systems.
• Meet with internal and external customers to establish system technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures.
• Lead trade analyses within and across the relevant domains.
• Work with stakeholders to allocate functions to components/systems and develop those allocations into requirements for the engineers, designers, and managers to design, develop, integrate and test.

Skills

MBSE

Systems engineering

Leadership

Requirements allocation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Systems Engineering

Job description

Who We Are

The Tactical Aerospace Department is a premier supplier for aerospace quality Complex Electronics on new and legacy DoW systems. This includes avionics, mission LRU's, flight worthy payloads, ground aerospace systems, and cutting edge third generation AI/ML for DoD platforms. This position is located on-site at either of our San Antonio, TX, Dayton (Beavercreek), OH, or Warner Robins, GA facilities.

Objectives of this Role

• Responsible to develop System level and LRU centric Architectures. Lead the development of CONOPS, develop requirements, requirement allocation, build, integrate, and test.
• Guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to develop hardware, firmware, and software for complex flight worthy avionics/mission LRU's/payload hardware.
• Interact directly with clients to establish system requirements and architectures to meet client expectations.
• Provide technical project leadership throughout each program.
• Utilize Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes to support system designs/architectures.
• Support department management in specific technical marketing activities, proposal development of embedded systems, and in the development of product/technical roadmaps.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• System Engineer over embedded avionics/aerospace programs.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test embedded complex flight worthy systems.
• Meet with internal and external customers to establish system technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures.
• Lead trade analyses within and across the relevant domains.
• Work with stakeholders to allocate functions to components/systems and develop those allocations into requirements for the engineers, designers, and managers to design, develop, integrate and test.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent engineering degree field with related experience.
• 10+ years: Experience developing, deriving, and allocating tiered Systems Engineering requirements in Avionics applications/LRU's.
• Broad, basic understanding of engineering activities/disciplines in avionics development (e.g. Systems, Hardware Development, Firmware, software, Integration, Testing, Bid and Proposal efforts, CONOPS, Qualification, Certification, System Safety, FMEA, Lab activities, etc).
• Experience developing CONOPS and System/LRU Architectures and basic/Intermediate experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE).
• A valid/clear driver's license is required.

Special Requirements

Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen. Job Locations: San Antonio, Texas Or Dayton, Ohio