Senior Avionics System Engineer – Command & Data Handling

Jobtailor; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Town of Florida, NY is seeking an experienced avionics engineer to lead C&D architecture studies and align requirements with subsystem design. You will work across verification, network integration, and safety-critical analyses, while producing detailed technical documents and supporting design reviews.

The role emphasizes collaboration in a fast-paced environment, mentoring peers, and delivering reliable, compliant avionics solutions for complex systems.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical subject area.
• 8+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems.
• An understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification.
• Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical C&D or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces.
• Demonstrated expertise related to configuring and managing time-sensitive, deterministic networks such as Time Sensitive Networking, ARINC 664, Time Triggered Ethernet, or other approaches.
• Demonstrated expertise with Network/Precision Time Protocol and layer 2/3 networking (e.g., Ethernet, VLANs, QoS, IP, TCP/UDP, routing, etc.)
• Demonstrated functional understanding of common electrical digital and analog interfaces (e.g. Serial Bus Communications, Video, Audio, Ethernet, Analog Sensors, etc.)
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships.
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead C&D architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the C&D subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications.
• Generate verification and validation plans, and work with Integration and Test team to ensure the C&D subsystem meets requirements.
• Develop and manage network architecture, integrating multiple subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance.
• Develop and manage C&D fault tree analyses and other reliability analyses across the system lifecycle.
• Produce technical writing (procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents).
• Contribute to design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and peer review within the avionics engineering team.

Skills

C&D architecture

Systems engineering practices

Integration processes

Mission/safety critical systems

Requirements decomposition

Time Sensitive Networking

ARINC 664

Time Triggered Ethernet

Network/Precision Time Protocol

Electrical/ Digital interfaces

Verbal and written communication

Team collaboration

Education

B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical subject area

Job description

Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead C&DH architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the C&DH subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications.
• Generate verification and validation plans, and work with Integration and Test team to ensure the C&DH subsystem meets requirements.
• Develop and manage network architecture, integrating multiple subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance.
• Develop and manage C&DH fault tree analyses and other reliability analyses across the system lifecycle.
• Produce technical writing (procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, analysis support and description documents).
• Contribute to design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and peer review within the avionics engineering team.

Requirements

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical subject area
• 8+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems
• An understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification.
• Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical C&DH or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces.
• Demonstrated expertise related to configuring and managing time-sensitive, deterministic networks such as Time Sensitive Networking, ARINC 664, Time Triggered Ethernet, or other approaches.
• Demonstrated expertise with Network/Precision Time Protocol and layer 2/3 networking (e.g., Ethernet, VLANs, QoS, IP, TCP/UDP, routing, etc.)
• Demonstrated functional understanding of common electrical digital and analog interfaces (e.g. Serial Bus Communications, Video, Audio, Ethernet, Analog Sensors, etc.)
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment.

Core Competencies

Expertise in C&DH architecture, systems engineering practices, and integration processes is essential, along with a strong background in developing and managing complex avionics systems and network architectures. Proficiency in technical writing and the ability to mentor within an engineering team are also critical.