Job Description
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and support requirements definition, decomposition, and allocation from aircraft-level to system and item level.
- Support development and maintain functional and logical airplane and system architecture.
- Ensure functional hazard assessments (FHA), preliminary system safety assessments (PSSA), and common mode analyses (CMA) in alignment with safety objectives.
- Guide item design and implementation, ensuring traceability to higher-level requirements.
- Plan and execute verification and validation activities across the V-model (item verification, system integration & verification, aircraft-level verification).
- Support safety analyses (SSA, FMEA/FMES) and compliance with applicable aerospace/defense regulations (e.g., DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, ARP4761).
- Collaborate across software and hardware engineering teams during design and testing phases.
- Provide documentation and support for certification authorities (FAA/EASA).
Participate in technical design reviews, audits, and interchange meetings.
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Required Skills & Experience
Must Haves:
- Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in systems engineering lifecycle within aerospace, automotive, or complex system domains.
- Hands-on experience with V-Diagram processes (requirements, design, implementation, verification, validation).
- Knowledge of safety assessments (FHA, PSSA, SSA, CMA, FMEA/FMES).
- Requirements capture and validation experience
- Familiarity with certification frameworks (ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-178C, DO-254).
Strong analytical thinking, clear technical writing, and ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Plusses:
- Requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS).
- System modeling (SysML/UML, Cameo, or equivalent).
- Test planning and execution across multiple integration levels.
Aircraft design, development and certification knowledge.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.