Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Datalinks & TPM Lead

globalhr; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, in Cedar Rapids, IA, seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Datalinks to design, develop, and integrate datalink and GPS sensor systems across the land, sea, and air domains.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team through the full engineering lifecycle, collaborate with program management, and contribute to bids, requirements, verification, and certification efforts, with hands-on lab work.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering activities and delivering work packages on time and within budget.
• Managed integration and verification planning across teams and readiness of test artifacts prior to events start.
• STEM degree with 10+ years experience or an Advanced Degree with 7+ years.

Responsibilities

• Participate in multi‑discipline engineering teams and provide system interface engineering across platform, hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, reliability/maintainability, safety, test equipment, environmental effects and producibility.
• Lead a Systems team as a Technical Project Manager guiding decisions and interfacing with PM and Leadership.
• Be a Cost Account Manager for engineering integration and qualification activities.
• Contribute to all phases of the systems engineering lifecycle including trade studies, architecture, requirements, traceability, integration, verification, and certification.
• Partner with cross‑functional engineering teams to ensure successful execution of key program milestones.
• Provide systems engineering support to bids and proposals, contributing to technical strategy and solution development.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Systems engineering lifecycle

Technical leadership

Project management

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Subversion

Jira

Jama/DOORS

MS Office

Job description

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, in Cedar Rapids, IA, seeks a Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Datalinks to design, develop, and integrate datalink and GPS sensor systems across the land, sea, and air domains.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team through the full engineering lifecycle, collaborate with program management, and contribute to bids, requirements, verification, and certification efforts, with hands-on lab work.