Principal Systems Engineer - Military Avionics FMS Program Lead (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-08-19

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:

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Collins Aerospace is currently seeking qualified candidates for an experienced Principal Systems Engineer - Program Lead role for the Special Operations Aircraft (SOA) and UH-60M programs in our Military Avionics Flight Management Applications department based out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our teams are comprised of cross-functional engineers working in an AGILE environment focused on the design and development of Flight Management Software Applications.    

Product Summary  

CAAS Flight Management Solutions - Our signature products for Military Avionics and Helicopters as part of the Collins Integrated Avionics Systems, are fielded on thousands of aircraft today. Specific capabilities include FMS (Flight Management Systems), Performance Application, System Manager, Communications Management, Flight Director, and Flight Controls. 

Links to More Details 

• https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/helicopters/rotary-wing/common-avionics-architecture-system 
• https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/helicopters/rotary-wing 
• https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/military-and-defense/avionics 
• https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/military-and-defense 

What You Will Do:

This job will encompass being both a Systems and Project Engineer (i.e., subsystems team lead), representing the flight management and controls department. Specific expectations include: 

• Demonstrated time management skills - ability to work unsupervised, multi-task, and coordinate work. 
• Accountable for managing scope, schedule, cost, and quality for a large, high-visibility program.  
• Provide daily support of cross-functional teams executing development work. 
• Organize, document, and communicate to teams all relevant program resources, processes, and updates.  
• Coordinate with program team and other subsystem teams to identify and collaborate on dependencies. 
• Actively manage risks & opportunities to identify areas of concerns, cost/schedule impacts, and come up with and execute mitigation strategies. 
• Lead bidding and estimating efforts, including: 
  • Lead technical scope breakdown and initial design 
  • Identify and communicate required resources and external dependencies 
  • Coordinate SME engagement for estimates 
  • Aggregating estimates 
  • Risk and Opportunity identification, quantification, and mitigation plans 
  • Presenting to and getting approval from Level 5 and Level 4 management 
  • Finalizing bid in BidMaster Web (BMW)  
• Decompose platform designs/requirements into subsystem designs ready for execution 
• Perform initial software issue investigation efforts to identify replication scenarios and operational impact 
• Be able to demonstrate the replication of issues to the development teams and the resolution of issues or completion of features to the program team 
• Perform subsystem verification tasks to ensure expected product performance is met before delivering to the platform team   
• Lead technical and operational conversations with program team and external customers 
• Onboard and train new engineers on cognizant program(s).

This position requires the commitment of professional working hours that may require the employee to extend beyond a typical 7:30am to 4:30pm workday, or beyond a 40-hour work week.   

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 8 years prior re