RF Systems Engineer

Are you motivated to work on a team that supports the backbone of the connected aviation GLOBALink communication system?

Our strategic unit with Collins, Connected Aviation Solutions (CAS), provides advanced information management systems, products and services that enable the connected aviation ecosystem by bringing together Collins’ unique breadth of aviation products with our smart digital solutions to help us enhance every aspect of the end-to-end travel experience. The Network and Connectivity Engineering (NCE) Team within CAS Engineering has the responsibility for Air Traffic Control and Airline operational data on a secure, high-availability communication system between aircraft and their airline hosts systems and Civil Aviation Authorities.

We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support our aviation communication development needs. The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for comprehending customer Statements of Need, developing Technical Requirements, and developing End-to-End System Designs between our customers, both internal and external, and our communication services. This is an ideal role for anyone who enjoys leading systems solutions and/or is interested in a leadership role in in the future.?YOU will play a pivotal role in this high growth and high visibility area of the Collins Aerospace company.

The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible to support teams and programs for systems engineering design, analysis, planning, implementation, troubleshooting and enhancements with respect to the GLOBALink system.

Responsibilities Will Include The Following

• Analyze statement of need and business requirements
• Lead highly technical engineering teams on challenging RF focused projects
• Develop RF test procedures
• Evaluate communications equipment
• Providing analysis for the decomposition of customer specifications and system level requirements into sub-system and piece part requirements
• Develop solutions with cross discipline engineering teams
• Documenting technical analysis
• Performing analysis of data flows and data logs
• Analyzing the performance of the system against established systems performance parameters such as latency, availability, and capacity
• Representing Collins Aerospace with the FAA customer and integrator on technical issues
• Represent Collins Aerospace in industry forums
  
  

Required Experience

• Candidates must have a minimum of 8 years of system engineering experience performing system engineering
• Implementing architectural changes and customer-driven enhancements to complex systems. Complex systems typically involved multiple servers, interfaces, networks, and databases.
• Experience with full life-cycle – development, test, implementation, and long-term support.
• Developing technical product roadmaps depicting the steps anticipated to migrate from the current state to the targeted future state.
• Experience with the management of the configuration process, functional analysis, timeline analysis, operational scenarios, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
• Integrating with external systems operated by external companies or agencies.
• Analyzing performance of complex systems through statistical analysis
• Performing technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Eliciting and managing customer requirements.
• Experience working in a highly integrated team environment with software, hardware, and network engineers.
• Knowledge of contemporary technologies that may be applicable in addressing product and market needs
• Experience working in communications systems
• Experience working in a service oriented business model for engineering
• Experience working in high availability systems, with a sound understanding of RMA and redundant architectures and design
• Experience working with government customers
  
  

Desired Experience

• Experience in VHF and HF RF technologies:
• Experience with lab and field test equipment and methodologies to evaluate radios and communications devices
• Firm knowledge in advanced digital signal processing techniques as they apply to Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and Modem development
• Ability to analyze and report results from various RF modeling and simulation tools (MATLAB, SIMULINK, LabVIEW, etc.)
• Proven communication and collaboration skills to work with counter parts in Avionics, Mission Systems, and Commercial Systems and across the engineering groups in CAS Engineering
• Participation on industry committees developing interface or communication specifications
• Experience with aeronautical communication, air traffic management, or airline operations
• Experience with storage and management of large data
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Masters preferred.
• In the absence of a degree, 11 years of relevant experience is required.
  
  

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