Instrumentation Engineer with Security Clearance

Overview Instrumentation Engineer

LOCATION:

Redstone Arsenal, AL JOB STATUS:
Full-time CLEARANCE:
Ability to Obtain Secret TRAVEL: ~10% Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
* Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
* Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited school or a degree in an applicable technical specialty.
* 10+ years' experience in engineering design, fabrication, research, and/or testing of instrumentation sensors and data collection.
* Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff. Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
* Familiar with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 and aircraft transducers, experience with low-speed data systems and pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTDs, flowmeters, strain gages and high-speed data systems, accelerometers, high frequency pressure transducers.
* Very familiar with engineering and mathematics applications software's such as Maple MathCAD and MATLAB; compute and graph simple and complex mathematical expressions, discrete sequences and systems, audio and image processing and construction of simple Simulink models.
* Multisim or Electronic Workbench; design, simulate and analyze analog and digital circuits schematics
* Familiar with Creo schematics & Parametric with Windchill
* Familiar with electrical instruments such as function generators, digital multimeter and oscilloscope
* Experience using DIT-MCO and Cablescan electrical testing software.
* Experience with NI Lab View Test Stand, DEWESOFT & Safran flight test products.
* Experience with Solid Works Electrical & Mentor Graphics
* Experience in trouble shooting of electrical system down to component level.
* Familiar with Creo-Parametric and windchill.
* Familiar with RF Antenna & receiver setup for telemetry systems
* Proficient with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants) DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS
* Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff.
* Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
* Experience initiating and developing requirements for DoD project execution.
* Ability to read and create electrical schematics.
* Ability to create or modify Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) data streams.
* Working knowledge of programming numerical systems and how to interface with, and record data from, military aviation platforms. RESPONSIBILITIES
* Support ground and flight testing for a variety of aircraft modification programs.

* Collaborate with the Flight Test team to define each program's instrumentation requirements, as well as modify/maintain the data acquisition system hardware and software, support instrumentation planning, installation, and calibration.

* Support procurement activities such as specification development, cost estimating, quote review, question and answer sessions, vendor documentation review, site acceptance review

* Assess, design, develop, integrate, and test system instrumentation components.

* Coordinate with flight test engineers and provide PDR, CDR of instrumentation system design parameters list.

* Work with techs to support hardware calibration in the lab, installation of instrumentation on the aircraft, and provide airworthiness a detailed report of system functionality.

* Develop controls and instrumentation documentation such as requirement definition, logic and flow diagrams, interface definition, software design documents, instrumentation, and device I/O documentation, etc. #CJ