Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer – ATC Voice Communications (Specs & IRDs)

CEXEC, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated, energetic, and results-oriented Senior Systems Engineer to support the FAA in modernizing air traffic control voice communications. We are seeking a high-level technical leader and domain expert to serve as the "Book Boss" (Document Owner and Lead Engineer) for the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Technical Specifications and Interface Requirements Documents (IRDs). In this role, you will own the development, delivery, and lifecycle management of the critical engineering documents that define Air Traffic Control (ATC) Voice Communication systems.

You will bridge the gap between operational needs and technical execution-working directly with users, test teams, and vendors to ensure next-generation and legacy voice systems are highly reliable, interoperable, and compliant with both domestic and international standards.

• Own the Documentation: Lead the end-to-end development, update, and delivery of FAA Technical Specifications and IRDs for ATC Voice Communications.
• Ensure System Consistency: Continuously review and maintain tight alignment and consistency between Specs and IRDs across multiple distinct FAA programs.
• Operational & Market Analysis: Perform market research on vendor capabilities and generate Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) to drive requirements for new FAA functionalities.
• Stakeholder Consensus: Work directly with FAA operational users and commercial vendors to collaborate on, refine, and obtain formal concurrence on system requirements.

• Design Compliance: Review vendor-provided Interface Control Documents (ICDs) to ensure their system designs perfectly match FAA IRD requirements.
• Lifecycle Support: Support vendor system design reviews and provide expert engineering evaluations of vendor systems during source selection processes.
• Test Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Maintain an active dialogue with test and validation teams to ensure requirements are testable and accurately understood.

• ED-137 Governance: Serve as the technical anchor for the international ED-137 standard for ATC VoIP communications, ensuring FAA functional requirements are fully protected and embedded within the standard.
• Global Working Groups: Actively support and represent interests at EUROCAE VOTE and WG-67 meetings. Submit formal updates to the ED-137 standard to support present and future FAA operational needs.
• Interoperability Assurance: Analyze vendor implementations of ED-137 to guarantee cross-vendor compatibility and seamless integration across the FAA infrastructure.

• ATC Voice Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of Air Traffic Control voice communications architecture, including legacy Voice Communication Systems (VCS) and modern Voice over IP (VoIP) VCS platforms.
• Interface & Systems Knowledge: Technical mastery of hardware, software, and analog/digital/VoIP interfaces specific to FAA voice paths.
• Performance Parameter Mastery: Thorough understanding of system performance parameters required in FAA voice specifications for every component along the end-to-end ATC voice path.
• Protocol & Standards Expertise: Advanced working knowledge of the ED-137 standard, including deep expertise in its specific utilization of Session Initiation Protocol (
  SIP
  ) and associated RFCs.
• Regulatory Familiarity: Comprehensive understanding of the government and non-government engineering standards that must be referenced within FAA specifications.

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

• Must be able to obtain a U.S. Government Public Trust clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, or a related field, with 10+ years of relevant experience including ATC voice communications systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design, development, and engineering documentation of critical aviation or…