LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - TACTICAL AEROSPACE

Company: Southwest Research Institute
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Who We Are:

The Tactical Aerospace Department (TAD) provides aerospace related research, development, production, test and/or support to new products, sustainment, and modernization programs for the DoD industry, Allies, and U.S. Government.

Objectives of this Role:

• Develop, integrate, and test complex avionics/aerospace systems while implementing RTOS's and designing architectures.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams by coordinating and allocating tasks, schedules, and earned value.
• Work collaboratively across a multi-disciplinary engineering teams to establish hardware and software requirements for complex flight worthy avionics hardware.
• Interact directly with clients and company staff to establish system/software requirements and architectures to meet client expectations.
• Design Software Architecture models using SysML or UML modeling to establish a baseline for software implementation and verification.
• Support Department management in specific marketing activities and writing proposals.
  
  Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
  
  
  • Develop complex embedded avionics for new, sustainment and modernization programs.
  • Develop, integrate, and test software within complex embedded avionics; this may include leading a multi-disciplinary team to allocate tasks with expected schedules, understand allocated budgets, and using earned value.
  • Meet with internal and external customers to establish technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system/software architectures.
  • Lead trade analyses within and across the relevant domains.
  • Work with stakeholders to allocate functions to systems/ functional components/software functions and develop those allocations into requirements.
    
    Requirements:
    
    
    • Requires a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Electrical, or equivalent engineering degree.
    • Experience in embedded avionics development programs utilizing an RTOS.
    • 8+ years: Experience developing, deriving, allocating and testing complex avionic software requirements.
    • Experience implementing RTOS's (preferred Green Hills, DEOS)
    • Experience designing software architectures (using SysML or UML modeling), especially in a multi-partition RTOS environment (preferred to understand partitioning techniques to account for partitions with various levels of DAL's and necessary certification artifacts).
    • Preferred experience in the development of drivers, BSP, and typical avionic buses (PCIe, 429, ethernet, 1553, etc), C++ and C.
    • Preferred experience and understanding of business and engineering activities/disciplines in Avionics development
    • Preferred experience with creating and implementing cyber requirements
    • Preferred experience with integrating software onto hardware and debugging within a lab environment utilizing equipment such as logic analyzers, power supplies, etc.
    • Preferred experience with Avionics certification/safety standards (e.g. DO-178 / DO-254)
    • Preferred experience with Open Architecture hardware and software implementations (e.g. SOSA, MOSA, FACE, OMS)
    • Preferred experience leading others, supporting Schedules, working with EVMS, supporting Bid and Proposals, supporting technical customer discussions, and supporting Marketing/business development
    • A valid/clear driver's license is required
      
      
      
      
      
      Special Requirements:
      
      Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.
      Job Locations: San Antonio, Texas
      
      
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