Principal / Sr Principal Flight Avionics Engineer

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for Principal or Sr Principal Flight Avionics Engineer to join the team of qualified individuals on our Avionics Organization. This position is located onsite in Melbourne, Florida.

In this role as the Flight Avionics engineer, your success depends on good leadership skills and understanding the scope of the work and the impact of the work on other teams, consistently bringing up concerns, issues and risks to program and technical leadership, and holding the team to a high level of technical rigor. You would need to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels.

Responsibilities:

• Integration of aircraft cockpit systems and components including Flight Management Computer (FMC), Primary Flight Displays (PFDs), Control Display Units (CDUs), Fight Navigation and Guidance systems, Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT) equipment and other various avionics systems with the capability to support trade studies..

• Requirements development, analysis, maturation and implementation

• Document designs using detailed schematics, diagrams and specifications

• Assist in the preparation and support of the verification of aircraft avionics and Prime Mission Equipment installations and aircraft certification documents.

• Provide support for the development of system safety documents.

• Technical management of program strategic partners and suppliers including development of supplier statement of work and requirements, review and analyze supplier design data, hardware/software acquisition, define functional test requirements including acceptance, qualification, and system integration, and support test execution.

• Informal and formal testing of subsystem requirements in lab, with the ability to troubleshoot hardware avionics equipment in a lab environment.

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This role can be filled at the Principal or Sr Principal Level based on the qualifications below.

Basic Qualifications:

At a Principal Level:

• Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 5 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 3 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 1 year of relevant military / professional / academic experience

At a Sr Principal Level:

• Must have a Bachelors degree in a STEM field and at least 8 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a Master's Degree in a STEM field and at least 6 years of relevant military / professional experience, OR a PhD and at least 4 years of relevant military / professional experience

And at Both Levels:

• Must have an active US Government Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the company, to meet its business needs.

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

• Must have experience in COTS / MIL-COTS hardware functional design and performance analysis

• Must have experience with design, development, and integration of flight deck equipment

• Must have experience with trade studies, documenting subsystem architectures, analyzing performance, and evaluating Technology Readiness Level (TRL) with regard to supplier current and future products offerings

• Must have experience with system modeling and requirements management tools (Cameo, DOORS, Rhapsody, etc.), developing/maturing requirements, and tracing requirements through various levels.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Military Navigation and Navigation Aids

• Experience with integrating Military Navigation instrumentation on aircraft and interfacing with mission software 

• Integration and/or Design experience with of one or more of the following avionics systems as applied to military aircraft:

  • 1.    Flight Management Systems (FMS)

  • 2.    Primary Flight Displays (PFDs)

  • 3.    Control Display Units (CDUs)

  • 4.    Terrain Avoidance and Warning Systems (TAWS)

  • 5.    Crew Alerting System (CAS)

  • 6.    Moving Maps

  • 7.    Embedded GPS/INS (EGI) Navigation Systems

• Experience with developing supplier documentation, performance based specifications, and statements of work

• Experience building supplier evaluation criteria and experience in conducting technical evaluations, documenting results and selection

• Ability to review documents from the supplier’s development effort and support supplier technical interchange meetings and design reviews

• Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) experience

• Performance Based Navigation (PBN) experience and attaining PBN certification

• Required Navigation Performance (RNP)/ Area Navigation (RNAV) certification experience

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-178 software standard for RNP RNAV certification

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-254 hardware standard for airborne electronic systems

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-200 standard for processing aeronautical data

• Experience designing to RTCA DO-160 and MIL-STD-810 standards for environmental qualifications

• Experience with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429 and Ethernet communication protocols

• Experience with Earned Value Management 

• Experience with supplier/subcontract management

• Experience with scheduling engineering activities

• Experience with Agile development