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System Engineer

Butler Aerospace & Defense
Lynnwood, WA Contractor
POSTED ON 10/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/14/2026

Systems Engineer


Location: Lynwood, WA


Job ID: #73334


Pay Range: $75-84


12 month contract



Citizenship Requirement: USC

Min years of experience: 5 years

Degree Requirements: Engineering Degree

Detailed Job Description:

System Engineer


Job Description:

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into designs. Ensure compliance with company and regulatory guidelines to support a safe operating environment.

• Support continuous process improvement activities, including Kaizen and 5S practices, to maintain an organized and efficient work environment and encourage personal development.

• Demonstrate proficiency in verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, and other communications across the organization.

• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining engineering, and R&D.

• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to meet project schedules and budgets.

• Apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of appropriate complexity that meets specifications for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.

• Utilize effective problem-solving processes, documentation, tools, and analyses to quickly identify root causes and corrective actions for technical challenges during product development and sustaining activities.

• Generate and review product development documentation, including proposals, technical reports, procedures, and correspondence required for customer and program needs.

• Work independently and demonstrate strong self-motivation while collaborating effectively within cross functional teams (engineering, operations, quality, business).

• Support IPT activities in collaboration with technical, operations, quality, and business teams.

• Contribute to Systems Engineering activities (architecture and components), including initial research, architecture definition, requirements definition, validation, system verification, and requirements flow-down.

• Lead system development activities following industry-recognized processes (e.g., ARP4754).

• Lead the development of System Safety analyses such as reliability predictions, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Common Mode Analysis, and Single Event Upset analysis (ARP4761).

• Participate in certification compliance activities for essential and critical-level control systems in aircraft applications.

• Perform any other tasks assigned by supervisor or management.


Skills :

Experience with system development following recognized industry processes (e.g., ARP4754).

• Familiarity with DO178, DO254, and DO160.

• Understanding of Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures, and system designs.

• Knowledge of requirements management, validation, and verification.

• Familiarity with multiphysics modeling and simulation (e.g., Simulink).

• Familiarity with circuit analysis and power supply topologies.

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.





Benefits provided: 401K, medical, dental, and vision, sick time as applicable to state law




Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer. Butler evaluates applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The Butler America Aerospace, LLC. EEO Policy Statement and “Know Your Rights” Poster is available here: Applicant and Employee Notices.


Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact the Human Resources Department at accommodations@butler.com.

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