Avionics Telemetry Engineer

Stratolaunch • Mojave, CA

99d • Onsite

About The Position

Stratolaunch is seeking a level II or Sr-level Avionics Engineer to support the design, integration, testing, and maintenance of hypersonic aircraft avionics systems. This role will have a focus in Telemetry (TM). The position involves collaborating with other system owners to understand test requirements and operations support needs for multiple test ranges.

Requirements

• Experience in Telemetry, Instrumentation, or Network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
• Experience with Ethernet networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, multicasting, etc.
• Experience with integrating data acquisition instrumentation (Analog, discrete, and digital protocols such as ARINC 429, etc) from distributed systems with mission control software.
• Knowledgeable with RF devices such as transmitters, receivers, encoders/decoders, or similar.
• Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers.
• Experience writing system requirements.
• Excellent written & verbal communication.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the SECRET or above level.
• Expertise with at least one programming languages, including but not limited to C/C++/C#, Python.
• Familiarity with continuous integration toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Experience with source control systems, such as Git.
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Visio).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with complex payload and/or guided systems.
• Experience integrating a high Mach or hypersonic system onto a military platform.
• Flight test program instrumentation system experience.
• Experience designing & manufacturing aircraft harnesses.
• Aircraft and/or launch vehicle development experience.
• Experience with configuring and monitoring RF telemetry components for end-to-end testing (encode, transmit, receive, decode).
• Knowledge of IRIG 106 CH4, Ch 10, CH 7 or other telemetry standards.
• Hands-on aircraft build, piloting, and flight test experience.
• Experience with requirements management tools such as JAMA or Doors.
• Mission Control Room console experience.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience with relational, document and time-series databases.
• Experience with Curtiss-Wright or Safran Data Acquisition Units.
• Experience with continuous integration toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to instrumentation, network, & telemetry (data) system requirements development, architecture design, testing, & operation for local and extended range missions.
• Support flight operations by ensuring data system assets are prepared for flight test.
• Support the selection of and harness design for new sensors, data acquisition units, computers, network switches, and other equipment.
• Manage and configure the aircraft instrumentation system to provide real time data for mission monitoring as well as logged data for post-flight analysis.
• Support the development and maintenance of software tools as required, including configuration management, simulation, deployment, and analysis tools.
• Determine, document, and manage subsystem requirements for each new configuration.
• Develop and support instrumentation, network, & telemetry tests as required.
• Support integration testing such as power checks, sensor calibration, and equipment checkout.
• Collaborate with design engineers, network engineers, and technicians as required to accomplish goals.
• Prepare data system material to present at design reviews and flight readiness reviews and in post operation reviews.
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments.

Benefits

• 9/80 schedule
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
• 50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level