Maintainability and Testability Engineer

About CFD Research:

Since its inception in 1987, CFD Research has delivered innovative technology solutions within the Aerospace & Defense, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Intelligence & Sensing, and Energy & Materials industries. CFD Research has earned multiple national awards for successful application and commercialization of innovative component/system technology prototypes, multi‑physics simulation software, multi‑disciplinary analyses, and expert support services. Based in Huntsville, Alabama where laboratory facilities and headquarters are located, CFD Research also has office and laboratory facilities in Dayton, Ohio, prototyping test and evaluation facilities in Hollywood, Alabama, and office facilities in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

CFD Research is an ISO
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AS9100D registered company and is appraised at CMMI Level II for Services. CFD Research is a 100% ESOP (employee‑owned company) recognized in Inc. Magazine's Inc
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CFD Research is excited to invite applications for a full-time Maintainability and Testability Engineer! In this role, you'll play a key part in supporting the continued growth, production, and lifecycle management of a complex multidisciplinary aerospace and defense hardware system.

Your mission will be to develop and enhance the engineering framework that ensures our system can effectively detect and isolate failures, support troubleshooting, provide vital diagnostic information, facilitate efficient maintenance, and be ready for service after maintenance activities.

You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with a diverse team, including reliability experts, systems engineers, design engineers, controls and software professionals, test engineers, manufacturing teams, product support staff, maintainers, technicians, and program leaders.

As the Maintainability and Testability Engineer, you’ll evaluate the system from the perspective of the personnel who maintain and support it throughout its lifecycle. Your insights will translate known and predicted system failure behaviors into practical requirements and strategies for fault detection, fault isolation, built-in testing, diagnostics, accessibility, maintenance, repair, support equipment, and verification.

This position offers significant involvement in design maturation, where you’ll leverage information from FMEA and FMECA, testing, maintenance activities, and real‑world failure experiences to identify opportunities for enhancing system maintainability and testability.

• Develop and maintain the system maintainability and testability engineering framework.
• Develop and maintain Maintenance Task Analyses.
• Perform or support Level of Repair Analysis.
• Develop fault detection and fault isolation analyses.
• Define expected fault-isolation capability and diagnostic resolution.
• Develop and maintain integrated diagnostics and testability analyses.
• Evaluate Built-In-Test capabilities, diagnostic coverage, limitations, and failure-detection performance.
• Collaborate with controls, software, electrical, mechanical, and other engineering teams to enhance BIT and diagnostic functionality.
• Assess health-monitoring and prognostic capabilities where applicable.
  
  Work alongside the Systems Reliability Engineer to ensure significant failure modes identified through FMEA and FMECA are appropriately detectable and isolatable.
• Evaluate accessibility, removal and replacement activities, maintenance sequences, maintenance times, tooling, personnel requirements, and support-equipment needs.
• Identify maintainability‑related design deficiencies and collaborate with responsible design organizations to develop corrective actions.
• Support Reliability Centered Maintenance activities and the development of maintenance tasks and intervals.
• Assist in repair-versus-replace decisions and other repair‑level analyses.
• Develop the engineering basis for maintenance and repair procedures and support the development of technical publications.
• Review maintenance manuals, troubleshooting procedures, and related technical content for consistency with the…