Title:  Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 34627

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Job Description:  

We are seeking an experienced Senior Specialist Systems Engineer to provide technical expertise in the design, development, integration, and validation of advanced Avionics Systems, focusing on Safety-Critical Display Processing and Secure Mission Processing solutions. In this role, you will help define and architect complex systems that integrate COTS processors, high-performance graphics engines, and custom I/O within modular chassis and backplane designs. Your responsibilities will include requirements decomposition, allocation, and management; developing interface control documents; and ensuring compliance with DO-178C, DO-254, Open Systems Architecture, and Military Standards. You will conduct technical trade studies, support system engineering reviews, and drive requirements-based validation and verification throughout the development lifecycle. Collaboration is essential—you will work closely with customers, program leadership, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and suppliers to deliver mission-critical and safety-critical capabilities that meet stringent airworthiness and cybersecurity requirements. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions that enable secure, reliable performance in demanding operational environments.

Essential Functions: 

• Provide technical expertise in the design, development, integration, and validation of advanced Avionics Systems.
• Focus on Safety-Critical Display Processing and Secure Mission Processing solutions.
• Define and architect complex systems that integrate COTS processors, high-performance graphics engines, and custom I/O within modular chassis and backplane designs.
• Perform requirements decomposition, allocation, and management.
• Develop interface control documents and fulfill Supplier Data Requirements List (SDRL)
• Ensure compliance with DO-178C, DO-254, Open Systems Architecture, and Military Standards.
• Conduct technical trade studies and support system engineering reviews.
• Drive requirements-based validation and verification throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with customers, program leadership, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and suppliers.
• Deliver mission-critical and safety-critical capabilities that meet stringent airworthiness and cybersecurity requirements.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in electrical, mechanical, or embedded firmware/software engineering detailed design of custom electronic subsystems
• Experience developing technical or cost proposals in a defense contracting environment
• Experience with earned value management systems for measuring program performance
• Experience developing and maintaining an integrated master schedule
• Experience with multi-level security or information assurance requirements
• Expertise in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Open Systems design
• Experience with Agile software development methods and tools
• Experience building, verifying, and delivering exquisite aerospace custom embedded computing solutions include heterogenous blends of COTS, firmware, and software for a plurality of signal processing chains
• Expert knowledge of data models, hardware/software interfaces, synchronous processing constructs and control methodology, and data interfaces
• Experience in systems engineering, with a focus on avionics or aerospace systems.
• Experience in designing and integrating complex systems involving COTS processors, high-performance graphics engines, and custom I/O.
• Strong knowledge of safety-critical display processing and secure mission processing solutions.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, allocation, and management.
• Proficiency in developing interface control documents.
• Knowledge of compliance with DO-178C, DO-254, Open Systems Architecture, and Military Standards.
• Experience conducting technical trade studies and supporting system engineering reviews.
• Ability to drive requirements-based validation and verification throughout the development lifecycle.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with experience working with customers, program leadership, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and suppliers.
• Ability to meet stringent airworthiness and cybersecurity requirements.

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