Principal Electrical Engineer - CATIA Aircraft Integrator

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Are you ready to unleash your technical creativity? Dream, Innovate, Inspire and Empower the next generation to transform humanity through technology and imagination! As a Principal Electrical Engineer, you will be a strategic leader and technical authority in the design, development, and validation of cutting-edge electrical/electronic systems for advanced aerospace and defense projects. You will provide direction, mentorship, and innovative solutions to drive successful project outcomes.

As an Electrical CATIA Aircraft Integrator, you will play a key role in leading the design and development of aircraft-level geometry and electrical system integration activities. This position requires deep expertise in CATIA V5+ and 3DEXPERIENCE environments, ensuring the seamless integration of electrical and mechanical subsystems into a cohesive, manufacturable aircraft configuration.

You will serve as a technical leader, guiding design teams, maintaining master geometry, defining interface control, and enforcing best practices in relational and model-based design (MBD). With a focus on CATIA Electrical and the logical and physical product structure.

Core Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage the electrical logical product structure, ensuring alignment between functional intent and physical architecture within CATIA/3DX.

• Translate logical system designs into physical 3D representations, maintaining traceability between electrical schematics, functional definitions, and routed geometry.

• Collaborate with systems engineering teams to ensure CAMEO-based model data (ie: SysML or MBSE architectures) is accurately mapped into the electrical logical domain.

• Serve as a bridge between CAMEO models, logical schematics, and CATIA physical installations, ensuring all design data remains synchronized through design changes and revisions.

• Identify and resolve logical-to-physical (L2P) mismatches, including wire routing conflicts, connector allocation, harness flattening issues, and interface discrepancies.

• Define and maintain logical-to-physical (L2P) linkage strategies to ensure digital continuity across the MBE ecosystem.

• Lead integration reviews focused on electrical-specific challenges, such as grounding, EMI/EMC considerations, and harness segregation between systems.

• Contribute to the development of process standards and data governance for electrical logical and physical model integration.

 

Aircraft Design & Development:

• Lead aircraft-level 3D design and integration using CATIA V5+, with focus on Electrical Physical Harness Routing and Harness Manufacturing Assemblies

• Develop and maintain 3D master geometry, datums, interfaces, and product structures

• Drive consistency in model trees, configurations, and relational design workflows

• Collaborate across electrical, mechanical, and systems teams to ensure integration feasibility and compliance

• Partner closely with the Mechanical CATIA Aircraft Integrator to align system geometry and interface manage