Senior Avionics Systems Engineering Leader

Acron Aviation; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Acron Aviation designs and manufactures certified avionics systems for safety-critical flight operations. This Senior Systems Engineering Manager role leads the organization translating customer needs into certifiable aircraft systems across commercial, military, rotorcraft, and new mobility platforms.

You will shape strategy, workforce capability, processes, and execution priorities, ensuring technical integrity while delivering cost, schedule, and performance commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer, Software, Mechanical, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
• 12+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, avionics, or safety-critical industries.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership or management experience with direct reports.
• Experience leading complex avionics systems development through requirements, design, integration, verification, certification, production, and field support.
• Strong working knowledge of systems engineering methods, requirements management, interface control, verification and validation, and risk management.
• Experience with aircraft or avionics certification and development assurance practices, including SAE ARP4754A and ARP4761 or equivalent.
• People-first leadership with talent development, coaching, and organizational planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary systems engineering team, including architects, engineers, and technical leaders.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture through coaching, succession planning, and performance management.
• Own systems engineering execution for new product development, certification programs, and sustaining engineering.
• Provide technical oversight of architectures, requirements decomposition, interfaces, trade studies, and verification.
• Ensure application of SAE ARP4754A/ARP4761A, development assurance, and safety processes.
• Establish requirements management, configuration control, traceability, and change control practices using DOORS/Jama/Cameo.
• Advance model-based systems engineering using SysML and architecture tools.
• Collaborate with hardware and software leaders to align requirements with DO-178C/DO-254 and DO-160.

Skills

Systems leadership

Requirements management

Architecture & interfaces

Certification processes

MBSE

DO-178C/DO-254

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Systems Engineering

Tools

IBM DOORS

Jama Connect

Cameo Systems Modeler

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Acron Aviation designs and manufactures certified avionics systems for safety-critical flight operations. This Senior Systems Engineering Manager role leads the organization translating customer needs into certifiable aircraft systems across commercial, military, rotorcraft, and new mobility platforms.

You will shape strategy, workforce capability, processes, and execution priorities, ensuring technical integrity while delivering cost, schedule, and performance commitments.