Flight Simulator Hardware Engineer

Flight Simulator Hardware Engineer

Location:

Orlando, FL 32825 Duration: 12+ months (Possible Extension) Pay rate: $50/hr. – $70/hr. on w2 (All Inclusive) Monday - Friday 2 PM - 10:30 PM

The hired engineer will be a Hardware Engineering on a development team that delivers a FAA Level D Full Flight Simulator for our customer. Primary responsibilities include:

• Complete hardware design and development activities for power and control systems, motion platform integration, visual display systems, avionics interfaces, and ancillary equipment.
• Manage end to end integration of the new simulator hardware with the existing building infrastructure, including HVAC, electrical distribution, grounding, and fire and smoke monitoring systems.
• Lead other Hardware Engineers that synchronizes engineering, procurement, production planning, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure design is completed as scheduled. Develop innovative solutions to a range of complex problems that are consistent with the program objectives.

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field

• Experience in developing flight simulation hardware solutions.
• Active development of new mechanical design engineering principles and full demonstrated knowledge of industry practices and related disciplines
• Issuing formal design checking approvals or non-conformance reports through the PLM tool.
• Developing and generating CREO layouts and detailed drawings for ICDs, components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and integration test articles
• Developing and generating HW architectural layouts for system and lower level interfaces between systems and subsystems
• Deriving Hardware and sub tier requirements from customer requirements
• Building BOMs, creating parts, assemblies, and design documentation
• Demonstrated ability to support cross-functional teams through major technical reviews throughout the acquisition lifecycle (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR)
• Experience applying Hardware Engineering processes in an Agile environment.
• Desired
  
  Skills:
• Experience with Windchill, Creo, Windchill and/or Catia, Zuken and Cameo.
• Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in accordance with ASME Y14.5 and demonstrated perform complex system-level tolerance analysis.
• Knowledge of generating hardware architecture, high level interconnects, and deriving requirements from customer and system level flow downs.
• Prior experience in the development, integration, and deployment of flight training systems.
• Leveraged Agile tenets in the execution of the development of software intensive systems, inclusive of driving development of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware, and Test Engineering work products.
• Experience adapting hardware designs to existing climate control systems, ensuring temperature/humidity stability for avionics and motion platforms.
• Experience interfacing with the facility's existing fire detection and suppression infrastructure
• Product design experience in the context of modular open systems architectures (e.g. SOA).
• Experience with Rotary and/or Fixed Wing Aircraft
• Experience with full motion simulators.