Principal Systems Engineer -Displays (Onsite)
About The Position
Collins Aerospace is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to help evolve next-generation avionics solutions. The position provides technical leadership and influences major engineering decisions while partnering across disciplines to deliver high-performance, safety-critical products for commercial and military customers. The engineer may contribute through integration, requirements leadership, technical strategy, and cross-functional problem solving. The role leads system definition, architecture development, and integration planning with hardware, software, and program teams. It also ensures compliance with engineering processes, certification requirements, and program design plans, and contributes to product strategy, technology roadmaps, and future pursuits. The position is onsite in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and requires a U.S. Person. No security clearance is required. The role offers exposure to safety-critical avionics development and certified flight deck system design, integration, and delivery. It also provides opportunities to coordinate technical teams, guide design decisions, shape project outcomes, and develop advanced systems-engineering and strategic-planning capabilities while working with global teams, suppliers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- Typically, a STEM degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience.
- Leadership experience developing certified aerospace or other complex, regulated systems.
- Demonstrated success creating or contributing to system architectures and collaborating across engineering domains.
- Knowledge of avionics certification or regulatory requirements such as TSO, DO-160, DO-254, or DO-178B/C.
- Must be a U.S. Person.
Nice To Haves
- Background in optics, display technology, electronics, or hardware/software integration.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, especially when coordinating across teams or presenting to leadership.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a system engineering technical leader, defining and refining approaches that build on existing product foundations while meeting customer and program needs.
- Lead systems engineering activities, including system definition, architecture development, and integration planning, in partnership with hardware, software, and program teams.
- Ensure compliance with established engineering processes, certification requirements, and program design plans.
- Apply avionics or complex-systems expertise to influence product strategy, contribute to technology roadmaps, and support future pursuits.
- Coordinate across technical teams, guide design decisions, and shape project outcomes.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and a separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Optional pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal coverage, and identity theft protection
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits
- Carrot Health hormonal health, fertility, and family-building services
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts second-opinion program
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Paid time off and holidays
- Potential annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, subject to eligibility and program terms
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
