Senior Flight Planning & Displays Systems Engineer

Reliable; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliable Robotics is developing safety-critical aviation technology with a focus on autonomous flight systems. You will contribute to flight planning and displays system engineering, ensuring robust design and validation across prototypes and certifiable platforms.

The Senior Systems Engineer will lead architecture, requirements capture, and verification efforts, collaborating with multiple teams to address safety, certification, and interoperability challenges, while supporting travel up to 20%

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Engineering in Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline, or equivalent experience at a minimum.
• Deep system development experience spanning specification, design, integration and testing of safety-critical avionics certification programs.
• Experience leading cross-functional engagement with airworthiness authorities for novel applications or means of compliance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert in Flight Planning, Displays Systems and Flight Deck Alerting.
• Lead the Flight Planning and Display System functional design from architecture to validation and verification.
• Support RCCAs, trade studies, and integral process development.
• Perform trade studies to evaluate performance, complexity, risk, and cost of solutions.
• Define and execute system activities per ARP4754 guidance.

Skills

Flight Planning

Displays Systems

System Engineering

Safety-Critical Systems

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Aerospace or related

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

ARP4754 guidance

Job description

We're building safety-enhancing technology for aviation that will save lives. Automated aviation systems will enable a future where air transportation is safer, more convenient and fundamentally transformative to the way goods — and eventually people — move around the planet. We are a team of mission-driven engineers with experience across aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars working to make this future a reality.

As a Flight Planning and Displays Systems Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you will be a part of the System Development Group and will report to the System Design Manager.

As part of an experienced multi-disciplinary team, you will help solve the key technical and certification challenges to deploying certified Unmanned Aircraft. Your professional experience in flight planning and displays system design, development and safety engineering will further strengthen the company's ability to meet the rigorous expectations of stakeholders and certification authorities. You will collaborate with members from other groups within Reliable Robotics to develop new and novel systems, processes and tools necessary for unmanned aircraft operations and help to grow the company's overall system engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities

In your role as Senior Systems Engineer (Flight Planning and Displays Systems), you will be involved in all system development aspects of our prototypes and certifiable safety critical flight systems. This will involve the following activities:

• Act as a subject matter expert in the area of Flight Planning, Displays Systems and Flight Deck Alerting.

• You will be responsible for leading the development of the Flight Planning and Display System functional design, from architecture development and requirements capture to system validation and verification.

• Support cross-functional RCCAs, trade studies, and integral process development.

• Perform trade studies to assess performance, complexity, risk, and cost of competing technical solutions.

• Define and support the execution of system activities according to ARP4754 guidance.

Basic Success Criteria

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science or Engineering in Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline, or equivalent experience at a minimum.

• Deep system development experience from specifying, designing, integrating and testing multiple complex safety critical avionics certification programs.

• Deep technical experience from concept to implementation across multiple program lifecycles in Flight Planning and Displays systems.

Preferred Criteria

• Advanced Degree of Science or Engineering in Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline

• Proven experience leading engagement with airworthiness authorities for new/novel applications, technologies, or means of compliance.

• Experience leading multiple different inter-disciplinary teams through complex architectural trade studies or root cause investigations.

We are developing and building high-integrity safety-critical systems for automated flight, and your role is critical to what we do at Reliable Robotics. With the support of the entire team, you will be instrumental in developing the systems designs and lifecycle data that demonstrates our system is safe and error free.

This role can be remote, or located at our facility in Mountain View, California, Seattle, Washington, or San Diego, California.

Must be willing to travel 20% of the time.

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. An offer of employment will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to perform in compliance with U.S. export control laws.

All applicants are asked to provide documentation that legally establishes status as a U.S. person or non-U.S. person (and nationalities in the case of a non-U.S. person). Where the applicant is not a U.S. person, meaning not a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident, (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or not otherwise permitted to access the export-controlled technology without U.S. government authorization, the Company reserves the right not to apply for an export license for such applicants whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code requires authorization and may decline to proceed with the application process and any offer of employment on that basis.

At Reliable Robotics, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical conditions, national origin, military or veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment and promotion is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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