Senior Avionics Architect - Lead Aircraft Electrical Systems

Poseidon Aerospace; California; Sur place; USD 140 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Early-stage equity

Relocation support

Employee Health Benefit Plans

6% Retirement matching

Flexible PTO

Free lunches, snacks, and a stocked-fr

AI tools and subscriptions

Résumé du poste

Poseidon Aerospace in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Avionics Engineer to own the aircraft's electrical architecture and mission systems. You will decide how the aircraft is powered, select computers and actuators, define data buses, and drive hardware qualification from design through flight test while mentoring peers.

You will travel to flight test sites as needed and collaborate with suppliers to ensure safety-critical hardware meets DO-254 and ARP4754A standards.

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years designing and integrating avionics or electrical systems on aircraft, spacecraft, or comparable vehicles.
• Owned the electrical or avionics architecture of a vehicle or major subsystem from concept through test.
• Designed power distribution systems, including circuit protection and load analysis.
• Took avionics hardware through integration and ground or flight test on a real vehicle.
• Experience with redundancy design and failure mode analysis for safety-critical hardware.
• Led design reviews and set technical direction for other engineers.

Responsabilités

• Own the electrical and avionics architecture of the aircraft, mission systems, and ground control station, including redundancy and failure behavior.
• Define the power system architecture, including generation, storage, distribution, and protection, and own the electrical load analysis.
• Lead selection and qualification of flight computers, mission computers, actuators, sensors, radios, and datalinks.
• Define the data bus and network architecture across the aircraft and ground control station.
• Own interface control documents between avionics, flight software, GNC, propulsion, and airframe.
• Set standards for schematics, wire harness design, grounding, bonding, and shielding.
• Plan and lead EMI/EMC and environmental qualification testing.
• Define the flight test instrumentation architecture with the flight test team.
• Lead root cause analysis of avionics hardware failures in ground and flight test, including travel to our flight test site.
• Support system safety assessments and certification evidence for avionics hardware.
• Manage avionics suppliers and outside test labs.
• Lead design reviews and mentor other avionics engineers.

Connaissances

Avionics design

Electrical systems integration

Hardware qualification

Redundancy design

System safety analysis

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering

Description du poste

Poseidon Aerospace in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Avionics Engineer to own the aircraft's electrical architecture and mission systems. You will decide how the aircraft is powered, select computers and actuators, define data buses, and drive hardware qualification from design through flight test while mentoring peers.

You will travel to flight test sites as needed and collaborate with suppliers to ensure safety-critical hardware meets DO-254 and ARP4754A standards.