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LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Aerospace Systems Engineer

Southwest Research Institute
San Antonio, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 8/1/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/31/2026
  • Responsible to develop System level and LRU Architectures.
  • Lead the development of CONOPS, develop requirements, requirement allocation, and test.
  • Guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to develop hardware, firmware, and software for complex flight worthy avionics/mission LRU's/payload hardware.
  • Interact directly with clients to establish system requirements and architectures to meet client expectations.
  • Provide technical project leadership throughout each program.
  • Must be willing to travel.
  • Utilize Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) processes to support system designs/architectures.
  • Support department management in specific technical marketing activities, proposal development of embedded systems, and in the development of product/technical roadmaps.

  • System Engineer over embedded avionics/aerospace programs.
  • Lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop, integrate, and test embedded complex flight worthy systems. This includes electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, and AI/ML.
  • Meet with internal and external customers to establish system technical requirements and facilitate development of specification documents and system architectures.
  • Lead trade analyses within and across the relevant domains.
  • Work with stakeholders to allocate functions to components/systems and develop those allocations into requirements for the engineers, designers, and managers to design, develop, integrate and test.

  • Requires a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent engineering degree field with related experience.
  • 10 years: Experience developing, deriving, and allocating tiered Systems Engineering requirements in Avionics applications/LRU's.
  • Broad, basic understanding of engineering activities/disciplines in avionics development (e.g. Systems, Hardware Development, Firmware, software, Integration, Testing, Bid and Proposal efforts, CONOPS, Qualification, Certification, System Safety, FMEA, Lab activities, etc).
  • Experience developing CONOPS and System/LRU Architectures and basic/Intermediate experience with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE).
  • A valid/clear driver's license is required.

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