Senior Principal Battery Systems Engineer

About the role

Join our Controls and Avionics Solutions (CAS) team to design and develop cutting-edge propulsion battery systems for conventional aircraft, helicopters, and Advanced Air Mobility vehicles. We're expanding our expertise to develop energy storage solutions for electrically powered aircraft.

Responsibilities

• Developing, allocating, and managing complex system, hardware, and software requirements
• Researching and developing complex, safety-critical, high-power battery system designs and architectures
• Defining hardware, software, and programmable logic interfaces and functionality
• Preparing and reviewing documentation for system designs and architectures
• Performing system and/or product integration
• Verifying and validating complex aspects of system designs to ensure conformance with functional specifications and customer requirements

Qualifications

• B.S. in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field (minimum)
• 8 years of experience designing, architecting, and integrating battery systems, especially for high-power or safety-critical applications
• Demonstrated experience integrating battery systems into vehicles or high-level power system architectures
• Experience in full lifecycle development, including system requirements, design, system-level integration, validation, and verification
• Technical writing skills and ability to create required engineering documentation
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership
• Experience in developing and architecting SOC, SOP, SOH and SOE models and validating them at model level
• Knowledge of high-voltage electrical power system design, battery management system designs, and thermal management of energy storage systems

Preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in a related engineering field
• Experience with development of formal validation and verification procedures
• Knowledgeable of commercial and military certification objectives and activities
• Working knowledge of model-based development of systems and/or software
• Demonstrated experience testing batteries and power systems
• Demonstrated experience with deploying battery systems for safety-critical applications
• Knowledge of ARP-4754A and ARP-4761, DO-311A, and FAA TSO process

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $120,874 - $205,486

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Legal plan
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
• Paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and applicable federal and state sick leave
• Recognition program with monetary or non-monetary awards

Schedule

• Every other Friday off
• Flextime
• Telecommuting options