AVIONICS INTEGRATION ENGINEER

About the role

Location: Tinker AFB, OK. Job status: Full-time, Hybrid. Clearance: Secret. Travel: 20% (Hanscom AFB; Seattle). Astrion is hiring an Avionics Integration Engineer to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/Airborne Warning and Control System (AFLCMC/HBS/WIW). The AWACS Division delivers airborne Battle Management Command & Control (BMC2) capabilities for joint, allied, coalition, humanitarian, and homeland defense operations, modernizing legacy mission systems, replacing aging computer architectures, integrating multi‑sensor data fusion, improving expeditionary readiness, assisting in E‑3 platform divestiture, and shaping follow‑on airborne C2 systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory assistance in developing system concepts and performing technological/trade‑off study assessments of proposed designs.
• Apply DoDD 5000.1 and DoDD 5000.2R, HQ AFMC and AFLCMC Engineering Directorate policies to SOF acquisition engineering tasks.
• Support general engineering requirements related to avionics integration for aircraft research, development, production, and lifecycle acquisition and sustainment.
• Provide systems and avionics engineering support in requirements generation, design and integration, development, modification, test, airworthiness, production, sustainment, deployment, operations, and divestiture.
• Provide technical expertise in maintenance systems integration, design to test, integrated diagnostics, and electronic support equipment.
• Interface with other system acquisition elements, higher headquarters, DoD, Government laboratories, industry, and universities.
• Assist in providing avionics engineering consultation to design, develop, manufacture, integrate, test, and deploy supportable airborne weapon systems, including integrated avionics, embedded computer systems, software, and electronic maintenance systems.
• Provide advisory assistance and apply systems engineering processes related to airworthiness; system requirements; mission critical software releases; software plans and processes; metric and requirements development and traceability; functional and physical allocations; program protection elements; entry and exit criteria development for technical reviews; configuration audits; logical analysis; design solution and implementation; interface and interoperability integration; and test verification and validation.
• Provide advisory assistance and draft documentation support to conduct reviews and studies, performance requirements, and support avionics system level integration.
• Provide advisory assistance to ensure application of systems integration, interface management, test, reliability and maintainability, accreditation and certification, technology transfer, manufacturing readiness, Programmatic Environmental, Safety and Occupational Evaluation (PESHE), and Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) processes per DoDI 6055.05 and AFI 48-145.
• Provide advisory assistance in the development, deployment, and maintenance of technical processes to develop and sustain acquired products while ensuring safe operation and maintenance, and assist the Government by providing knowledge, expertise, and guidance to produce artifacts where required in systems integration, OSS&E; airworthiness certification per MIL-HDBK-516; safety per MIL-STD-882; and AFI 63-1201, Life Cycle Systems Engineering.
• Provide advisory assistance in the development, deployment, and maintenance of training systems, to include modeling and simulation.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must have and be able to maintain an active