Principal Systems Engineer (ONSITE)
Raytheon
Principal Systems Engineer
Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is looking for a Principal Systems Engineer with a passion for engineering and desire to join the Athena Control Systems Team. With a wide variety of Flight Controls, Autopilot, Engine Control, Sensing and Estimation products, the Athena Controls System Team is responsible for architecting, designing, and developing systems that serve manned and unmanned systems for commercial and military customers.
As a Principal Systems Engineer on the Athena Control Systems Team, you will be leading the development, certification, and maintenance of systems for safety-critical commercial and military applications. In this role, you'll work with a team of highly motivated world class engineers, ensuring our solutions meet the highest standards of quality and safety.
You will be asked to apply your knowledge in the following areas to a variety of products/applications that are relevant to both military and commercial industries:
- System dynamics and state estimation (linear/nonlinear, navigation/PNT, cooperative PNT, distributed PNT, inertial sensor modeling, oscillator modeling)
- Guidance (path planning, mission planning, cooperative teaming, tactical maneuvering)
- Control (Fixed Wing, VTOL, HVTOL, Rotorcraft)
- Perception (Classification, Identification, SLAM, Feature tracking, Automatic Target Recognition)
What You Will Do:
- Lead and participate in software design and program reviews to ensure team progress against milestones are met and tracking project schedules
- Write software integration and test plans; conduct and lead software integration and verification testing to deliver safe high-quality solutions
- Lead and manage the engineering bid and planning process for a multi-disciplinary engineering team
- Work on multiple programs simultaneously
- Provide communication and status to relevant stakeholders
- Support verification and traceability of the system requirements
- Support peer reviews on test procedures & design documentation
- Help drive resolution for technical issues through problem-solving and coordination across impacted teams and subject matter experts
- Opportunity to help improve our development processes and tools
- This position will require up to 15% travel
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Strong working knowledge of C/C++, embedded and application software development background, using Matlab and real time operating systems
- Experience with developing certified safety critical systems
- Experience with system integration testing on hardware in a lab environment
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
Qualifications We Prefer:
- Experience evaluating inertial, air data and magnetometer sensors
- Working knowledge of the Systems Engineering Discipline
- Working knowledge and experience with GNSS, DGNSS, RTK and WAAS
- Experience working with Requirements Based Development and Requirements Management Tools
- Experience with embedded communications protocols, antennas and Flight Dynamics for Rotary and Fixed Wing Platforms
- Experience troubleshooting and finding solutions for test equipment and automated test failures
- Experience in developing system level solutions that integrate multiple systems into a single offering
- Have knowledge and experience with the aerospace industry, sensor fusion, vehicle control, computer vision, and algorithm development
What We Offer:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- And more!
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$118.3k - $224.9k
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