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Avionics Engineer

Motion Recruitment
Rapids, IA Contractor
POSTED ON 12/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/22/2026

Our client, a leader in aerospace & defense is looking to hire an Avionics Engineer to join their team. This will be fully onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA.


*This job is a 6-month W2 contract role with benefits!*


As an Avionics Engineer, you will support external customer stakeholders and internal software & hardware engineering teams with the design, validation, and verification testing for cockpit avionics in the Special Operations Aviation military programs.


What You'll Be Doing:

  • Perform designs, requirements, validation, & verification for cockpit avionics for various special operations programs
  • Perform requirements-based testing, robustness and ad-hoc testing in a lab environment
  • Support cross-functional team development with both external customer stakeholders and internal software and hardware engineering teams
  • Perform investigations of the client lab hardware and environment, including integration investigations of different client interfaces


Required Skills & Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
  • 1 years of relevant experience in Systems, Hardware, Firmware or Avionics Engineering


Preferred Skills & Experience:

  • Experience using TNT, DOORS, PREP, Jira and/or Microsoft Office Suite
  • Working knowledge of data busses and protocols including Ethernet, MIL-STD-1553B, and ARINC-429
  • Prior experience in Military Avionics strongly preferred!


Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Salary : $40 - $55

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