Systems Engineering Intern

Dynon Avionics – Fargo, ND
Summer Internship

Position Overview

Dynon Avionics is seeking a Systems Engineering Intern to support the development, organization, and evolution of system engineering artifacts for integrated avionics products.

This role focuses on system requirements development, traceability management, and systems documentation, while also providing exposure to system design and architecture activities across multiple avionics programs.

The intern will work closely with systems engineers, software engineers, hardware engineers, and test engineers to ensure system requirements are well-defined, traceable, and aligned with the intended system architecture and implementation.

A significant portion of this role involves working within requirements management tools such as Jama to organize, refine, and maintain system requirements as products evolve. The intern will also help reverse engineer requirements from existing documentation and test procedures, while supporting the development of system design artifacts that describe how system components interact and operate together.

This position is well suited for students interested in systems engineering, complex system architecture, and aerospace product development.

Responsibilities

System Requirements Development

• Assist in authoring and refining system and subsystem requirements for avionics systems.

• Ensure requirements are clear, structured, testable, and properly scoped.

• Help decompose higher-level system requirements into lower-level functional requirements.

• Support systems engineers in maintaining consistent requirement structure and formatting.

Requirements Traceability and Management

• Maintain requirement traceability across system, software, hardware, and verification artifacts.

• Manage requirement relationships within Jama or similar requirements management tools.

• Update requirement linkages as requirements evolve across multiple development programs.

• Ensure system requirements remain consistent with system architecture and implementation.

Engineering Artifact Development and Maintenance

• Create and maintain systems engineering artifacts, including:
  
  

  • requirement sets

  • traceability structures

  • verification mappings

  • implementation artifacts
    
    

• Assist in organizing and maintaining system-level documentation used in engineering development and certification activities.

Documentation Integration

• Tie system requirements to existing engineering documentation, including:
  
  

  • user manuals

  • interface documentation

  • design documentation

  • test procedures
    
    

• Help ensure documented system behavior is accurately reflected in system requirements.

Reverse Engineering Requirements

• Analyze existing test procedures, documentation, and implemented system behavior to derive or reconstruct missing system requirements.

• Assist in translating implementation artifacts into structured system requirements.

• Support efforts to improve requirement coverage for legacy or evolving systems.

System Design Support

• Assist systems engineers in developing system design artifacts, including functional diagrams and system interaction descriptions.

• Help document how system components interact, including displays, sensors, navigation sources, and avionics subsystems.

• Support the development of high-level system architecture descriptions used by engineering teams.

• Participate in discussions about system behavior, interfaces, and architecture decisions.

Qualifications

Required

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in:

  • Aerospace Engineering

  • Electrical Engineering

  • Computer Engineering

  • Systems Engineering

  • Industrial Engineering

  • or a related technical field.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills.

• Ability to understand and work with complex technical systems.

• Strong written communication skills and attention to detail.

Preferred

• Interest in systems engineering or aerospace systems.

• Familiarity with requirements management tools (Jama, DOORS, etc.).

• Experience writing high quality system, software, and hardware requirements

• Experience working with technical documentation or specifications.

• Interest in system architecture or complex integrated systems.

• Familiarity with block diagrams, system modeling, or architecture documentation.

What the Intern Will Learn

During this internship, the candidate will gain exposure to:

• Systems engineering practices used in avionics development

• System requirements development and traceability management

• System architecture and design documentation

• Requirements management tools such as Jama

• Engineering documentation used in aerospace certification programs