What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instrumentation Engineer position at Astrion?
Overview
Instrumentation Engineer
LOCATION: Redstone Arsenal, AL
JOB STATUS: Full-time
CLEARANCE: Ability to Obtain Secret
TRAVEL: ~10%
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division.
Required Qualifications / Skills
Desired Qualifications / Skills
Instrumentation Engineer
LOCATION: Redstone Arsenal, AL
JOB STATUS: Full-time
CLEARANCE: Ability to Obtain Secret
TRAVEL: ~10%
Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division.
Required Qualifications / Skills
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
- Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited school or a degree in an applicable technical specialty.
- 10 years’ experience in engineering design, fabrication, research, and/or testing of instrumentation sensors and data collection.
- Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff. Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
- Familiar with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 and aircraft transducers, experience with low-speed data systems and pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTDs, flowmeters, strain gages and high-speed data systems, accelerometers, high frequency pressure transducers.
- Very familiar with engineering and mathematics applications software’s such as Maple MathCAD and MATLAB; compute and graph simple and complex mathematical expressions, discrete sequences and systems, audio and image processing and construction of simple Simulink models.
- Multisim or Electronic Workbench; design, simulate and analyze analog and digital circuits schematics
- Familiar with Creo schematics & Parametric with Windchill
- Familiar with electrical instruments such as function generators, digital multimeter and oscilloscope
- Experience using DIT-MCO and Cablescan electrical testing software.
- Experience with NI LabView Test Stand, DEWESOFT & Safran flight test products.
- Experience with SolidWorks Electrical & Mentor Graphics
- Experience in trouble shooting of electrical system down to component level.
- Familiar with Creo-Parametric and windchill.
- Familiar with RF Antenna & receiver setup for telemetry systems
- Proficient with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Desired Qualifications / Skills
- Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff.
- Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
- Experience initiating and developing requirements for DoD project execution.
- Ability to read and create electrical schematics.
- Ability to create or modify Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) data streams.
- Working knowledge of programming numerical systems and how to interface with, and record data from, military aviation platforms.
- Support ground and flight testing for a variety of aircraft modification programs.
- Collaborate with the Flight Test team to define each program’s instrumentation requirements, as well as modify/maintain the data acquisition system hardware and software, support instrumentation planning, installation, and calibration.
- Support procurement activities such as specification development, cost estimating, quote review, question and answer sessions, vendor documentation review, site acceptance review
- Assess, design, develop, integrate, and test system instrumentation components.
- Coordinate with flight test engineers and provide PDR, CDR of instrumentation system design parameters list.
- Work with techs to support hardware calibration in the lab, installation of instrumentation on the aircraft, and provide airworthiness a detailed report of system functionality.
- Develop controls and instrumentation documentation such as requirement definition, logic and flow diagrams, interface definition, software design documents, instrumentation, and device I/O documentation, etc.