System Engineer

Butler Aerospace & Defense; Lynnwood (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Medical, dental, and vision

Sick time per state laws

Job summary

Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is seeking a systems engineering professional to contribute to architecture, requirements flow-down, validation, and verification across aircraft-related product development and sustaining activities.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure performance, cost targets, and reliability while integrating safety analyses and compliance with ARP4754 and DO-178/254/160 standards.

Qualifications

• Experience with system development following recognized industry processes (e.g., ARP4754).
• Familiarity with DO-178, DO-254, and DO-160.
• Understanding of Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures, and system designs.
• Knowledge of requirements management, validation, and verification.
• Familiarity with multiphysics modeling and simulation (e.g., Simulink).
• Familiarity with circuit analysis and power supply topologies.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional groups to meet product performance and cost targets; embed quality and manufacturability into designs.
• Support continuous improvement activities (Kaizen, 5S) to keep a clean, efficient workplace.
• Demonstrate strong written and spoken English for technical reports and presentations.
• Decompose and define product/process requirements to support development and sustaining engineering.
• Plan, prioritize, and manage work to meet schedules and budgets.
• Produce design and development work that meets schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.”
• Apply problem-solving methods to identify root causes and corrective actions during development and sustaining activities.
• Generate and review development documentation for customer and program needs.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, quality, and business teams within IPTs.

Skills

ARP4754 processes

DO-178/DO-254/DO-160

Systems engineering

Requirements mgmt

Multiphysics modeling (Simulink)

Circuit analysis & power topology

Software development lifecycle

Tools

Simulink

Job description

Responsibilities

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into designs. Ensure compliance with company and regulatory guidelines to support a safe operating environment.


• Support continuous process improvement activities, including Kaizen and 5S practices, to maintain an organized and efficient work environment and encourage personal development.


• Demonstrate proficiency in verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, and other communications across the organization.


• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining engineering, and R&D.


• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to meet project schedules and budgets.


• Apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of appropriate complexity that meets specifications for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.


• Utilize effective problem-solving processes, documentation, tools, and analyses to quickly identify root causes and corrective actions for technical challenges during product development and sustaining activities.


• Generate and review product development documentation, including proposals, technical reports, procedures, and correspondence required for customer and program needs.


• Work independently and demonstrate strong self-motivation while collaborating effectively within cross functional teams (engineering, operations, quality, business).


• Support IPT activities in collaboration with technical, operations, quality, and business teams.


• Contribute to Systems Engineering activities (architecture and components), including initial research, architecture definition, requirements definition, validation, system verification, and requirements flow-down.


• Lead system development activities following industry-recognized processes (e.g., ARP4754).


• Lead the development of System Safety analyses such as reliability predictions, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Common Mode Analysis, and Single Event Upset analysis (ARP4761).


• Participate in certification compliance activities for essential and critical-level control systems in aircraft applications.


• Perform any other tasks assigned by supervisor or management.

Skills

• Experience with system development following recognized industry processes (e.g., ARP4754).


• Familiarity with DO178, DO254, and DO160.


• Understanding of Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures, and system designs.


• Knowledge of requirements management, validation, and verification.


• Familiarity with multiphysics modeling and simulation (e.g., Simulink).


• Familiarity with circuit analysis and power supply topologies.


• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

Benefits provided

• 401K, medical, dental, and vision, sick time as applicable to state law

Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer. Butler evaluates applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The Butler America Aerospace, LLC. EEO Policy Statement and “Know Your Rights” Poster is available here: Applicant and Employee Notices.

Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Department at [e-mail].