Southwest Research Institute

LEAD ANALYST - LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Systems Engineer/Systems Architect

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Who We Are: The Tactical Aerospace Department is a premier supplier for aerospace quality technology on new and legacy DoD systems. This includes avionics, mission LRU's, flight worthy payloads, ground aerospace systems, and cutting edge third generation AI/ML for DoD platforms. Objectives of this Role: Responsible to develop System level and LRU Architectures. Guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to develop hardware and firmware for complex flight worthy avionics/mission LRU's/payload hardware. Interact directly with clients to establish system requirements and architectures to meet client expectations. Provide technical project leadership throughout each program. Utilize Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes to support system designs/architectures. Support department management in specific marketing activities, proposal development of embedded avionics programs, and in the development of product/technical roadmaps. Daily and Monthly Responsibilities: Perform as a System Engineer over embedded avionics/aerospace programs. Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test complex flight worthy systems. This includes electrical, mechanical, firmware, data pipelines, data science, and AI/ML. Meet with internal and external customers to establish system technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures. Lead trade analyses within and across the relevant domains. Work with stakeholders to allocate functions to components/systems and develop those allocations into requirements for the engineers, designers, and managers to design, develop, integrate and test. Requirements: Requires a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics or related with related experience. 8 years: Experience developing, deriving, and allocating tiered Systems Engineering requirements in Avionics applications/LRU's. Broad, basic understanding of engineering activities/disciplines in avionics development (e.g. Systems, Hardware Development, Firmware, Integration, Testing, Bid and Proposal efforts, CONOPS, Qualification, Certification, System Safety, FMEA, Lab activities, etc). Experience developing Architectures and basic/Intermediate experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE). A valid/clear driver's license is required.