Senior Systems Verification & Certification Engineer

About the role

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. As a Senior Systems Verification & Certification Engineer supporting a Landing Gear Program, you will support the verification of landing gear systems and equipment provided by third‑party landing gear companies, acting as an experienced Landing Gear Verification Subject Matter Expert who can independently review existing requirements, verification activities, supplier deliverables, qualification results, and certification evidence. This position requires full‑time onsite work in South Burlington, VT and is limited to US Persons (citizens or permanent residents).

Responsibilities

• Review and update the landing gear system specifications and requirements.
• Review requirements associated with landing gear systems provided by third‑party suppliers.
• Manage requirements and maintain end‑to‑end traceability.
• Review requirement changes and evaluate their impact on the system and existing verification evidence.
• Support the verification of safe‑landing requirements.
• Review existing verification and validation plans.
• Review supplier test plans, test procedures, qualification results, and test reports.
• Analyze existing qualification and certification evidence.
• Confirm that the available evidence adequately verifies the applicable system requirements.
• Identify missing, incomplete, or insufficient verification and compliance evidence.
• Perform verification and compliance gap assessments.
• Define additional verification activities or test cases when gaps are identified.
• Prepare or update verification plans, compliance reports, and certification deliverables.
• Support the preparation of the required means‑of‑compliance documentation.
• Coordinate directly with third‑party landing gear suppliers and internal engineering teams.
• Track open verification actions and support their resolution.
• Support the Landing Gear Program through certification readiness.

Qualifications

• Between 7 and 15 years of relevant aerospace engineering experience.
• Strong experience in aircraft systems engineering, verification, qualification, or certification.
• Direct experience with landing gear systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience reviewing technical and verification deliverables produced by third‑party aerospace suppliers.
• Experience with requirements management and traceability.
• Experience reviewing verification plans, qualification test procedures, test results, and test reports.
• Experience identifying verification and compliance gaps.
• Experience preparing or reviewing certification and means‑of‑compliance documentation.
• Ability to work independently as a technical subject matter expert.
• Strong communication and coordination skills.
• Ability to collaborate with suppliers and cross‑functional engineering teams.
• Experience with a requirements‑management tool such as DOORS, Jama, Polarion, or an equivalent solution.

Pay

Salary range: $120,000 – $160,000 (actual salary offered depends on location, candidate’s combination of job‑related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience).