Systems Engineer
About The Position
The Systems Engineer designs, develops, integrates, and validates GPS/GNSS-based navigation solutions for airborne systems. The role develops navigation algorithms using GPS/GNSS, inertial navigation systems, AHRS, IMUs, air data, radio navigation sensors, and sensor-fusion techniques. It also supports avionics and navigation system architectures, requirements development and verification, navigation performance analysis, and integration with flight management and other aircraft systems. The engineer performs testing and verification in laboratory, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight-test settings; contributes to safety and failure analyses; and collaborates with engineering, certification, and flight-test teams to support regulatory and military certification activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in avionics navigation systems engineering.
- Hands-on experience with GPS/GNSS-based navigation systems.
- Strong understanding of GPS and GNSS systems, including GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou.
- Strong understanding of Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), IMU and AHRS technologies, sensor fusion, and Kalman filtering.
- Strong understanding of aircraft navigation architectures and Flight Management Systems (FMS).
- Strong understanding of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN), Required Navigation Performance (RNP), and Area Navigation (RNAV).
- Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS.
- Experience with system modeling and simulation tools.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
- Excellent technical documentation and communication skills.
- Working knowledge of GNSS, including GPS signal structure, receiver processing, position and velocity solution, and integrity monitoring techniques such as RAIM.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with navigation products and avionics architectures.
- Experience with military navigation systems and anti-jam GPS technologies.
- Familiarity with Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based GNSS testing.
- Experience with navigation sensor integration and certification programs.
- Knowledge of aircraft certification processes and regulatory guidance.
- Flight-test or navigation-system troubleshooting experience.
- Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and validate GPS/GNSS-based navigation solutions for airborne systems.
- Develop navigation algorithms using GPS, GNSS, INS, AHRS, IMU, air data, radio navigation sensors, and sensor-fusion techniques.
- Develop, decompose, trace, and verify system requirements.
- Support architecture development for integrated avionics and navigation systems.
- Analyze navigation performance, integrity, continuity, availability, and accuracy requirements.
- Evaluate navigation system behavior in challenging RF environments, including jamming and spoofing conditions.
- Develop system-level test plans, procedures, and verification reports.
- Execute laboratory, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and flight-test activities.
- Support integration with Flight Management Systems (FMS), Multi-Mode Receivers (MMR), Terrain Awareness Systems, and Autopilot/Flight Director systems.
- Conduct failure modes analysis, safety assessments, and fault-tree analysis.
- Review and analyze customer and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, systems, verification, certification, and flight-test teams.
- Support FAA, EASA, and military certification activities.
- Participate in technical design reviews and customer presentations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
