Senior Principal Integration & Test Focal - Secure Systems
About The Position
Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is seeking an Integration and Test lead for its High Assurance Devices Engineering team. The role is responsible for successful verification and validation of High Assurance Devices across the department and contributes to systems and cybersecurity engineering for next-generation security-enabled mission computing, cryptographic, and cross-domain technologies. Products are matured from low technology readiness levels through program-of-record accreditation and factory production. The role leads integration and test activities for embedded systems, working with software, firmware, board support package, systems, and hardware engineers. It develops virtual and development-board test environments, creates integration and test plans with systems architects, product owners, and chief engineers, and coordinates formal verification and validation events. The lead supports multiple programs and mentors junior engineers in integration, validation, verification, and qualification. The position is onsite in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and requires U.S. citizenship and an active, existing DoD Secret clearance after the first day.
Requirements
- Experience with embedded systems development.
- Experience generating integration and test plans for embedded systems and digital hardware.
- Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least 7 years of relevant experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- An active and existing security clearance is required after day one.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting security accreditation, certification, and cybersecurity verification activities.
- Experience with full-stack software development and integration, including Board Support Package (BSP), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), and Embedded Linux.
- Experience with embedded hardware board bring-up and test fixturing.
- Experience with DOORS, CAMEO, or similar tools.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with software, firmware, Board Support Package, systems, and hardware engineers to develop embedded secure systems.
- Develop virtual and development-board test environments that combine software virtualization with System-on-Chip embedded development.
- Generate integration and test environments and plans in collaboration with systems architects, product owners, and chief engineers.
- Coordinate and lead formal verification and validation testing, including environmental (ENV), electromagnetic interference (EMI), security verification, TEMPEST, and design verification.
- Support multiple programs simultaneously and mentor junior engineers in integration, validation, verification, and qualification.
- Lead embedded-systems integration and test activities, aligning work with program goals and customer requirements.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and 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 program.
- Student Loan Repayment Program.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Optional pet, home and auto, additional life and accident, critical illness, group legal, and identity theft protection coverages.
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
- Fertility and family planning benefits.
- Adoption assistance.
- Autism benefit.
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
- Wellness rewards through Healthy You Incentives.
- Virtual doctor visits through Doctor on Demand.
- Child and elder care services through Bright Horizons.
- Second-opinion program through Teladoc Medical Experts.
- Relocation assistance.
- Potential eligibility for short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.
- Potential eligibility for paid time off and holidays.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
