Principal Systems Engineer, Helmet Vision Systems (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-07-01

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons. For a complete definition of “U.S. Person” go here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Collins Aerospace is seeking a motivated Principal Systems Engineer to join our team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and supporting system design and integration activities, ensuring the successful development and deployment of advanced helmet vision systems. With an emphasis on product quality, we are developing optical systems which bring improved value to the flight deck through enhanced situational awareness, lower operating minima, and added safety benefits. From being the Head-Up Display provider for the Boeing Dreamliner to the Helmet Mounted Display provider for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Collins Aerospace continues to build trust every day.

Our Systems Engineering team is responsible for overall helmet display system requirement definition, including the definition of interfaces with other aircraft systems, the definition of desired functionality (including display formats and behaviors), and the verification and validation of the correct implementation of these defined characteristics, as well as LRU system definition and qualification.

We are actively seeking engineers with hardware experience and knowledge of the aviation industry that are motivated to become leaders in the Systems Engineering department. Driven individuals will lead their cross functional teams through technical challenges, as well as manage schedule and cost to meet milestones. We are looking at leaders who can hit the ground running and execute projects that develop our hardware systems into the latest technology. This role will start on a military program.

This role will be onsite in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

What You Will Do:

• Manages overall project requirements, reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, evaluation measurements, and other disciplines for large or complex projects. Coordinates project management.

• Monitors budgets, cost, effectiveness, and reliability of activities and make recommendations to optimize resources, prioritize spending, and ensure that standards are met.

• Provides analysis for the decomposition of customer specifications and preparation of system-level requirements, system descriptions, wiring diagrams, interface control documents, software and hardware requirement documentation. Make recommendations to improve the quality of the organization’s systems products and services.

• Provides recommendations to develop system and safety requirements in accordance with MIL-STD-882.

• Providing conceptual design to foster decomposition of the system requirements into lower level requirements; leads collaborative work with hardware and software engineering design teams to develop functions into their design states.

• Preparing and participating in system design reviews in accordance with MIL-STD-1521 or other internal processes.

• Coordinates system integration cases and procedures.

• Makes recommendations for the generation of plans and verification criteria for the requirements.

• Performs analysis at all levels of the total system product including concept, design, fabrication, modeling, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.

What You Will Learn:

• How to perform architectural exploration.

• Synthesize analyses of data and uses the results to prepare technical reports of findings and recommendations.

• Experience with ARINC standards: ARINC 429, ARINC 664, ARINC 818 and ARINC 661.

• Experience with safety-critical, real-time, embedded system development.

• Experience with optics and hardware integration.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience