Avionics Systems Integration Engineer

JOB SUMMARY – ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS / DUTIES

The Avionics Systems Integration Engineer VI serves as the lead technical integrator responsible for coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities supporting aircraft airworthiness, T2 modification packages, sustainment engineering, and system-level integration across multiple airborne platforms. This position provides independent technical leadership in reviewing, integrating, and assessing contractor-developed engineering packages while ensuring aircraft modifications comply with Government airworthiness requirements, engineering standards, and program objectives.

Employee will be responsible for the following functions/duties:

• Perform as the lead systems integrator responsible for coordinating engineering activities across electrical, avionics, structures, propulsion, flight controls, software, systems safety, and configuration management disciplines in support of customer requirement.
• Lead development and review of T2 engineering packages supporting aircraft modifications, mission equipment integration, instrumentation installations, antenna relocations, communications systems, ISR payloads, and subsystem upgrades.
• Conduct technical peer reviews of contractor-developed engineering analyses, substantiation reports, drawings, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and installation packages.
• Evaluate integration impacts affecting aircraft performance, safety, maintainability, supportability, electromagnetic compatibility, and airworthiness certification.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering reviews ensuring technical consistency between engineering disciplines prior to Government approval.
• Lead technical trade studies evaluating alternative integration approaches, design concepts, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Review system architecture, interface definitions, functional requirements, electrical interfaces, software interfaces, mechanical interfaces, and data communications.
• Support development of engineering requirements, verification plans, Systems Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and Airworthiness Review Boards (ARB).
• Coordinate engineering activities supporting both developmental testing and operational flight testing.
• Review system safety analyses including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), System Safety Assessments (SSA), Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA), Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and hazard tracking.
• Support development of system verification matrices, requirements traceability matrices, and technical risk assessments.
• Coordinate engineering activities supporting aircraft sustainment, engineering investigations, fleet modifications, technical directives, and engineering dispositions.
• Provide engineering recommendations supporting Government Chief Engineers, Technical Authorities (TA), Airworthiness Authorities, Program Managers, and customer representatives.
• Develop engineering memorandums, technical recommendations, risk assessments, engineering white papers, executive briefings, and customer presentations.
• Review and coordinate CAD models, installation drawings, structural analyses, electrical load analyses, wiring diagrams, interface documentation, and aircraft modification packages.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable Government guidance and other applicable airworthiness standards.
• Mentor junior engineers while establishing engineering best practices across the Airworthiness organization.
• Operate as a technical integrator responsible for ensuring engineering products from multiple disciplines are technically complete, internally consistent, and ready for Government review.

REQUIREMENTS - EDUCATION, TECHNICAL, AND WORK EXPERIENCE

A Master of Science in engineering from an accredited academic institution and 16 years of related engineering experience, or an accredited doctorate degree in engineering and a m