Principal Systems Engineer - Engines and MEMS (EMEMS) Sensors (Onsite)

About the role

The Principal Systems Engineer will work in the Engines and MEMS (EMEMS) Sensors design department supporting the team in developing highly reliable products which meet customer specified requirements/expectations at the lowest competitive cost. The engineer will be a highly motivated self-starter who will be capable of providing technical leadership to complex, multi-discipline projects, providing mentoring to other engineers, and driving innovation.

Responsibilities

• Pursue cost saving opportunities to maximize project profitability.
• Monitor and assess system issues; develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Interact with internal and external customers.
• Participate in the new product design cycle with engineering teams, including presenting at design reviews.
• Establishing and adhering to schedules and budget for system engineering activities.
• Gather and evaluate customer and industry specifications/requirements based on understanding of domain and technology.
• Provide system-level engineering expertise and technical leadership to a cross-functional engineering team, from requirements definition through detailed design implementation and verification.
• Perform architectural exploration.
• Decompose customer specifications and system level requirements into sub-system and piece part requirements and generate verification criteria and plans for the requirements.

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.
• Demonstrated technical and leadership responsibility on electronic development and integration programs.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and present stage gate design reviews both internally and externally to customers.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills with the ability to facilitate teamwork across functions.
• Prior experience managing and coordinating hardware and software development configurations throughout the engineering process.
• Prior experience establishing design work scope content for concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product development, integration, and test.
• Demonstrated ability with conflict resolution and negotiating skills.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in design practices with consideration for system-level performance and aerospace certification requirements including SAE ARP4754, RTCA/DO-178, RTCA/DO-254, and RTCA/DO-160 preferred.
• Experience with DOORS, Polarion ALM, and MATLAB/Simulink/StateFlow strongly desired.
• Experience with engine technologies, aircraft systems and data management, embedded HW/SW, Agile development processes, or cybersecurity a plus.
• 10+ years experience reviewing product specifications and determining design requirements and scope of work.
• 10+ years experience performing estimates of effort and duration for tasks.
• 10+ years experience of requirements management and convergence planning.