Instrumentation Engineer

This position will be based out of Huntsville, AL with heavy OCONUS travel support to France - any travel required will be compensated.

• Be responsible for specification, selection, design, integration, operation and maintenance of aircraft data acquisition systems, and their related components.
• Collaborate with various engineering disciplines to determine what parameters will be required to be monitored, recorded, and displayed.
• Review aircraft avionics systems, maintenance manuals, and wiring manuals, to develop an instrumentation integration approach.
• Develop and maintain a Master Parameter List for each program that defines all parameters to be recorded, required sensors, range, accuracy, excitation, and sampling rates.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines to develop wiring diagrams that can be used to fabricate the required test instrumentation wire harnessing.
• Create a comprehensive Instrumentation Plan that documents the instrumentation system equipment and setup to be used to collect the necessary data for each test program.
• Oversee installation, checkout, and calibration of data acquisition system to ensure test data can be properly displayed, processed, and analyzed.
• Troubleshoot and resolve instrumentation system, transducer, and test-related issues.
• Maintains configuration control, and mission capability of the instrumentation system.
• Travel may be periodically required to support instrumentation installations.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent experience/combined education.
• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience in the data acquisition and instrumentation field.
• 10+ years of experience working in a lab test, flight test, or similar test environment.
• Experience with data acquisition system attributes (e.g. range, accuracy, frequency responses, bandwidth) to define characteristics of measurements to be recorded.
• Experience with transducer and sensor characteristics with the ability to make hardware selections appropriate to measure physical phenomena.
• Ability to interpret electrical drawings and schematics.
• Experience planning and executing instrumentation activities for test programs.
• Experience with electronics troubleshooting techniques and tools, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and other common laboratory equipment.
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken).
• Must be U.S. citizen.
• Must currently possess or be able to receive Department of Defense Secret clearance.

• Familiar with aircraft instrumentation concepts including:
  Analog and digital data acquisition, calibration methods, solid-state recording and digital video recording/compression, aircraft wiring, and avionics databus protocols including Mil Std‑1553, ARINC
  429/717, PCM, and ASCB.
• Familiar with GPS and IRIG time standards.
• Experience with Safran, Curtis Wright, National Instruments, or Dewesoft data acquisition hardware.
• Experience with Lab View, DEWEsoft
  
  X, or IADS software.