Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, verification, and integration activities of avionics systems, ensuring they meet performance requirements and applicable safety standards.
• Apply the full systems design V-model, from requirements definition through implementation, verification, and validation.
• Create, analyze, and manage system requirements, ensuring traceability and alignment with customer and regulatory needs.
• Create and maintain system models to support architecture definition, design decisions, and system-level analysis.
• Perform safety analysis activities to identify, assess, and mitigate system risks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Drive multi-disciplinary integration problem solving, working closely with hardware, software, reliability, and program management teams.
• Develop verification procedures and test plans, and support or execute system and integration testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems, electrical, software, computer engineering or another relevant related technical discipline.
• Minimum five years’ of experience in a systems engineering role.
• Experience with requirements management and change tracking tools such as DOORS, ADO, etc.
• Experience with regulatory design guidelines; examples including ARP4754A, DO-178b/c, DO-254, DO-160.
• Experience with avionics communication protocols including MIL-STD_1553, ARINC 429, ARINC 664, and Ethernet.

Desired

• Master’s degree in systems, electrical, software, computer engineering or another relevant related technical discipline.
• Ten plus years’ experience in a systems engineering role.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Phoenix, AZ.

Pay And Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $85.00/hr.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.