Systems Engineer in Clearfield

Job Description

As a Systems Engineer supporting avionics modifications, you will perform tasks across the full lifecycle-design, development, testing, fielding, and sustainment-of weapon systems. You will serve as a technical lead for high-performance Ethernet environments, ensuring that aircraft network architectures are scalable, compliant with airworthiness standards, and optimized for high-throughput data.

• System Design & Compliance: Generate product specifications and functional diagrams. Conduct airworthiness assignments to obtain compliance artifacts and provide risk assessments when compliance is not achievable.
• Network Engineering: Establish and implement an overarching Ethernet design and maintenance philosophy. Manage high-throughput network environments (at or near 10 Gb/sec) based on IEEE 802.3 standards.
• Testing & Analysis: Perform physical layer validation and packet-level performance analysis. Identify and mitigate packet loss, collisions, and network degradation.
• Documentation & Briefings: Develop requirements documentation, white papers, and design review data. Clearly communicate test strategies and performance findings to stakeholders through briefings and reports.
• Continuous Improvement: Develop or enhance custom network test tools and translate test data into actionable network improvements.

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent work experience).
• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in systems engineering.
• Technical Proficiency: Proven experience with high-speed Ethernet networking, including design, implementation, and troubleshooting in high-performance environments.

• Advanced Degree: Master's Degree in Engineering.
• Specialized Expertise: 8+ years of experience specifically with F-16 avionics systems.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Strong understanding of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards, including physical layer considerations and protocol behavior.