Senior Avionics Systems Engineer

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At EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives.

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Based in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.

Together, we are shaping the future.

The Senior Avionics Systems Engineer is responsible for defining and managing avionics system architecture, deriving and allocating system requirements across hardware, software, and control domains, and ensuring effective integration throughout the system development lifecycle. The role manages system interfaces, requirements traceability, verification and validation activities, and supports safety and certification processes in line with ARP
4754A, ARP
4761, DO-178C, and DO-254
. Working closely with multidisciplinary engineering and certification teams, the position ensures that avionics systems are technically coherent, fully traceable, compliant, and successfully integrated at system level.

• Develop subsystem architecture based on high-level system requirements.
• Derive system requirements from high-level requirements.
• Allocate system requirements to software, hardware, and control domains.
• Manage system interfaces (ICDs) between software, hardware, control, and other engineering teams.
• Provide necessary technical inputs to software, hardware, and control teams.
• Coordinate the lifecycle activities related to writing, verifying, and validating system requirements.
• Perform system-level integration and verification activities.
• Support safety assessment activities and derived requirements management.
• Support the establishment and execution of systems engineering processes compliant with ARP
  4754A.
• Maintain requirements traceability across system, hardware, software, and control levels.
• Prepare and maintain systems engineering documentation.
• Work in coordination with software, hardware, control, test, and certification teams.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronics, Control, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in avionics system development and system integration.
• Knowledge and experience in avionics system architecture.
• Knowledge of systems engineering design processes and related lifecycle activities.
• Knowledge and experience in ARP
  4754A processes.
• Experience in requirements engineering (capture, derivation, and traceability).
• Knowledge of communication interfaces such as RS-232/422/485, CAN bus, ARINC 429, ARINC 664, ARINC 825, and MIL-STD-1553.
• Experience with configuration, change, and requirements management tools such as SVN, DOORS, etc.

• Familiarity with safety assessment processes (ARP
  4761, FHA/PSSA/SSA).
• Familiarity with DO-178C and DO-254 within the system development context.

Launched in November 2019, the UAE's EDGE is one of the world's leading advanced technology groups, established to develop agile, bold and disruptive solutions for defence and beyond, and to be a catalyst for change and transformation. It is dedicated to bringing breakthrough innovations, products, and services to market with greater speed and efficiency, to position the UAE as a leading global hub…