Description
As a Senior Mission Systems Engineer, you will lead the hands-on integration of avionics, sensors, and mission payloads onto the V-BAT and our next-generation aircraft.
We're looking for engineers with a strong mix of hardware and software experience,people who can move fluidly from system architecture to real-time troubleshooting.
Ideal candidates have hands-on experience taking complex hardware–software systems from 0→1, understanding what truly matters to end users, and delivering reliable capabilities into real-world field use.
In this role, you will be an extreme owner,leading the specification, design, integration, flight testing, and validation of mission and avionics systems that expand the capabilities of our aircraft.
You'll work closely with electrical, mechanical, software, and flight test teams in both the lab and the field, owning the full product lifecycle of payload systems from concept through to deployment.
Help us save lives as we strive to deliver the most highly reliable aerospace hardware in the industry.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, integrate, and validate avionics and mission sensors and payloads for V-BAT ,from concept through production & deployment
- Work directly with operators, mission SMEs, and internal stakeholders to understand user needs and prioritize system features and capabilities.
- Drive 0→1 development: take loosely defined mission problems, propose solutions, prototype quickly, iterate with flight test data, and mature systems into production-ready capabilities.
- Lead cross functional development: mechanical & electrical design, firmware/embedded interfaces, data paths, networking, and onboard software integration.
- Debug and root-cause complex hardware, software, and integration failures throughout development and flight operations.
- Lead hands-on bring-up, lab testing, HIL testing, and flight test preparation.
- Support flight operations with real-time troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, and post-mission data analysis.
- Use Python, MATLAB, or similar tools to analyze logs, automate tests, and drive informed design decisions.
- Collaborate with Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Flight Test, and Manufacturing to deliver reliable and maintainable avionics systems.
- Drive continuous design improvement to increase reliability, robustness, and mission performance.
Requirements:
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.
- 3+ years engineering experience with electrical system design, integration, testing, debug, and repair
- Hands-on experience with test equipment, schematics, harness/wiring diagrams, and HW/SW debugging.
- Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…
- Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results.
- Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others.
Preferences:
- Experience integrating avionics, sensors, radios, mission payloads, or flight computing systems.
- Experience with flight test, field testing, or hardware-in-the-loop development.
- Experience with Python or any scripting language.
- Active Secret Security Clearance (or ability to obtain one if needed)
- Demonstrated adaptability, agility, and the ability to innovate under pressure to meet dynamic project demands and drive successful outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience taking a hardware + software product or feature from concept (0) to deployed system (1).
Salary:
$115,527 - $173,291 a year