About The Position
Collins Aerospace’s AFCS products have been flying and landing airplanes for over 30 years. Our customer base is a who's who of aircraft manufacturers and they demand systems which satisfy the highest levels of criticality at the lowest cost possible. This dichotomy provides a continuous challenge to our engineering team to employ new technology and methodologies in the development of our complex systems. We are looking for a Systems Engineering Intern to join our team in Cedar Rapids, IA and contribute to the development of flight control products for the next generation of business, regional, military, and air-transport fixed and rotary wing platforms. Typical FCS functions include, but aren’t limited to flight guidance, autothrottle, autopilot, maintenance, and autoland systems. This position represents a great opportunity to apply your systems engineering skills to real-time embedded systems with critical safety requirements.
Requirements
- Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent and student must be pursuing a Bachelor’s or advanced degree in an applicable discipline
- U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status) as defined here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience with Matlab/Simulink
- Knowledge of control systems theory
- General knowledge of aviation and/or flight control systems.
Responsibilities
- Define and review system requirements for flight control systems including functional requirements and interface requirements
- Develop control algorithms and signal processing for flight control systems. This includes flight guidance, autothrottle, and attitude control systems
- Develop models and simulation tools for various types of closed loop systems to assess performance
- Conduct system verification and validation of the control algorithms, flight control system functional requirements and interface requirements.
- Support product certification at all levels by performing ARP4754A/B compliant system development and DO-178B/C compliant software development.
- Provide analysis support to the FCS flight test team and learn about the flight test process
- Mentor with experienced systems and/or flight test engineers and learn about career opportunities in flight controls
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- flexible work schedules
- employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- parental leave
- paid time off
- holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
