Avionics Integration Engineer III - Lunar Permanence

Responsibilities

• Act as the negotiator between multiple stakeholders with conflicting interests to optimize the spacecraft design.
• Contribute to or lead Avionics architecture studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support.
• Manage Avionics requirements development, definition, and maturity.
• Develop and manage Avionics physical, logical, and network configuration interface control documents (ICDs).
• Develop and maintain data and communication budgets.
• Develop and maintain integrated electrical architecture diagrams.
• Cook constraints and conflicting requirements across multiple disciplines.
• Contribute to or lead change management ensuring proper change impact assessment and coordination of design changes and their impacts across subsystems.
• Cook sensor selection and end-to-end sensor error analysis.
• Identify, assess, and manage program risks (technical, schedule, cost, integration).
• Tool development for maintaining vehicle electrical configuration and definition.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical subject area.
• 8+ years relevant experience in the full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations.
• Deep experience in integrating spacecraft or high criticality aerospace subsystems - Avionics, Software, Structures, GNC, power system, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to define and manage communication protocols.
• Demonstrated functional understanding of common electrical digital and analog interfaces (e.g. Serial Bus Communications, Video, Audio, Ethernet, Analog Sensors, etc.).
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems.
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment.
• Able to earn trust and maintain positive and professional relationships.

Desired

• M.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Electrical, or related technical subject area.
• Experience with human-rated spacecraft.
• Experience with full spacecraft design life cycle.
• Experience with systems safety design practices.
• Experience with MBSE methods and tools including SysML.
• Experience with electrical architecture diagramming practices and tools including MS Visio.
• Experience with software tools such as SINDA/FLUINT, MATLAB/Simulink, Creo, Jama, Cameo, Confluence, and JIRA.
• (For tool development) VB Script or Python experience.