Sr Manager - Platform Avionics

Position work location:
Merritt Island, FL.
Fully remote candidates located within the U.S. will also be considered.

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative Platform Avionics Sr. Manager to design, analyze, and test new satellite and aerospace systems. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional engineering skills and strong leadership in aerospace programs to the team.

The Platform Avionics Sr. Manager's primary responsibility will be leading the Avionics Hardware Team. This team will be involved in the full lifecycle of development, from requirements definition, design, qualification, verification and operations. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.

The Platform Avionics Sr. Manager will provide autonomous solutions of complex problems, through direct work and delegation, under the leadership of the Platform Avionics Director. The Platform Avionics Sr. Manager will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.

• Lead of the Platform Avionics Hardware Team, with a focus on program execution, technology development, personnel growth, process development, and cross-functional coordination.
• Specific groups and activities falling under this department include:
  • Responsible Engineers for Avionics Equipment, including attitude control sensors, actuators, command and data handling, and RF equipment.
  • Design definition, development, and qualification.
  • Non-conformance management, production support, test support, and on-orbit troubleshooting.
  • Supplier development and source selection.
• Support Systems Architecture team for Arrow satellite platform development.
  
  Responsibilities include:
  • Avionics architecture inputs supporting overall system, program, and mission requirements.
  • Support requirements development - initial definition, decomposition and flowdown, management.
  • System design and trade studies - high level concept trades to support subsequent detail design.
• Ability to drive multiple design activities (programs or mission).
• Lead cross-functional teams in planning, coordination, and task execution, reporting to External Customers and Internal Program Managers.
• Grows and develops the Avionics Systems Architecture tools, processes, and methods for Airbus U.S.

• Perform all the necessary systems engineering activities to build, to maintain and to evolve the Airbus spacecraft products and execute development roadmaps.
• Provide input for new business capture including proposals and Basis of Estimates.

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
• Preferred:
  Master's Degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.

• A minimum of 20 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 18 years with a Master's degree.
• Proven track-record of working with aerospace HW, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, qualification, integration, test, deployment, and operations.
• Proven track-record of managing people and multiple multi-disciplinary teams.

• Proficiency with the overall satellite system development process along with specific knowledge of the hardware development processes and techniques.
• Experience with spacecraft avionics subsystem design and development, including attitude control, data handling, and RF subsystems.
• Expertise…