Senior Systems Engineer - Avionics Test Engineering; Onsite

Senior Systems Engineer – Avionics Test Engineering (Onsite)

Collins Aerospace

Location:

HIA
32:
Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE, Cedar Rapids, IA,  USA

Job Type: Onsite

Citizen: U.S. citizenship required

Security Clearance:
None/Not Required

The Avionics Test Engineering organization is a global engineering organization responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of manufacturing test solutions supporting the $5B Avionics strategic business unit and external customers such as armed services and airlines.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will perform analysis at all levels of the automated test solution, including concept, design, build, verification & validation, deployment, operation, maintenance and disposal.

You will support technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for test systems. You will convert product requirements into system solutions acknowledging technical, schedule, and cost constraints, decompose specifications into sub‑system requirements, generate verification criteria and plans, and support configuration, functional, timing, trade, and interface studies.

• Participate in program planning and risk management, both technical and programmatic from bid to deployment
• Develop test system requirements and validation procedures; provide technical solutions for building the test solutions
• Collaborate with project teams and external end users/customers
• Coordinate as the primary interface with production/service center, design engineering, and test engineering (hardware and software) engineers
• Integrate across multiple disciplines to deliver successful solutions through sustainment
• Perform verification and validation of test solutions
• Conduct trade studies and market analysis to benchmark industry‑leading test solutions
• Support product line strategy for test solutions; support process improvement and reuse of technical solutions at a systems level
• Reduce test time and analyze test failures
• Provide technical mentoring to junior engineers
• Occasional travel to Iowa manufacturing sites

• Typically requires a STEM degree with minimum 5 years relevant experience, or an advanced degree with minimum 3 years experience, or 9 years experience in absence of a degree
• Experience with engineering development tools such as DOORS, Jama, MATLAB, Atlassian Collaboration Tools, and Microsoft Office 365 suite
• Experience in requirements verification and validation, and developing verification criteria and procedures

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills for cross‑functional collaboration
• Experience in requirements development, stakeholder analysis, and decomposition of systems level requirements into hardware and software subsystems
• Good organization skills
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with modern scripting languages (e.g., C++, LabVIEW, Python)
• Experience with avionics industry standards such as ARINC‑429, ARINC‑661 (display interface), ARINC‑664 (AFDX), ARINC‑818, and IEEE 802.3 (ethernet)
• Problem‑solving skills to proactively identify alternate solutions to challenging technical problems
• Detail‑oriented and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• Alignment with Collins Enterprise Values:
  Safety, Trust, Accountability, Respect, Collaboration, Innovation

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching and separate retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student loan repayment program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life & accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal,  protection
• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health fertility and family planning services
• Adoption assistance
• Autism benefit
• Employee assistance plan with up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You incentives and wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand and virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons child and…