SwRI is Hiring a LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - AVIONICS ENGINEER Near San Antonio, TX
Design architectures within a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) environment and then lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test complex Avionics/Aerospace systems.
Work collaboratively to establish hardware requirements for complex flight worthy avionics and/or aerospace hardware.
Interact directly with clients and company staff to establish system requirements and architectures to meet client expectations.
Support Department management in specific marketing activities, writing proposals, and developing product/technology roadmaps.
Develop complex embedded avionics/payloads for new, sustainment and modernization programs.
Develop, integrate, and test software within complex embedded avionics. This may include leading a multi-disciplinary team.
Meet with internal and external customers to establish technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures.
Lead trade studies within and across the relevant domains.
Support department roadmaps, IRAD's, marketing, and Strategic planning.
Requires a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent Engineering degree with related experience.
8 years: Related Experience developing, deriving, allocating and testing complex avionics requirements.
Experience implementing RTOS's (preferred Green Hills or DEOS)
Experience designing avionic architectures, especially in a multi-partition RTOS environment (preferred to understand partitioning techniques to account for partitions with various levels of DO-178 DAL's and necessary certification artifacts).
Experience leading engineering teams.
Shown experience/understanding of engineering activities/processes in Avionics development (e.g. system architecture/design/requirements, architecture, requirements, test, requirement traceability, LDRA, certification artifacts, integration, metrics, etc).
Experience with DO-178 processes
Experience with integrating software onto hardware and debugging within a lab environment utilizing equipment such as logic analyzers, power supplies, etc.