Engineer - Avionics, Instruments & GNC Sr
- Location: Kent
- Job Type:Contract
Posted 9 days ago
- Expiry Date: 09 June 2022
Important Skills:
Altium/Cadence OrCAD / Allegro, Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting; assembly language, C, C++; MATLAB / Simulink / SPICE.
Responsibilities:
Develop avionics hardware (boards and integrated assemblies) across the entire product life-cycle; including concept and requirements definition, design, prototyping, verification (power-on, functional / acceptance/qualification testing) and release to production.
Develop analog and digital boards that interact with avionics systems (including sensors andelectromechanical/electrohydraulicactuators); including analysis, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification, and release.
Support avionics architecture trades studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction.
Support embedded controller risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design fortest/manufacture/cost(DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.
Participate in program-level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.
Qualifications:
Undergraduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field with 10+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development
Direct hands-on experience developing complex commercial or aerospace electronic assemblies (designing custom cards or integrating COTS hardware).
Direct hands-on experience with analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit analysis, simulation, design, test, debug, signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles.
Exposure to analog and digital filters, signal conditioning, and signal processing using discrete components.
Familiarity with the use of complex computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to monitor sensors and control actuators; including design, development, and verification.
Highly organized team player with excellent technical communication skills (written and verbal)
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Desired:
Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field with 12+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development
Demonstrated expertise designing high-reliability, safety-critical, Class 2/3 board assemblies; including familiarity with IPC 6xx and NASA-STD-8739.n (or similar) standards.
Proficiency using Altium/Cadence OrCAD / Allegro (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards; and experience working with external board manufacturing and assembly vendors.
Proficiency with scripting; programming and analysis/modeling tools: Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting; assembly language, C, C++; MATLAB / Simulink / SPICE (or similar).
Exposure to designing safety or mission-critical aerospace flight hardware compliant with DO-254.
Exposure to development of high-reliability, radiation-tolerant, radiation-hardened flight hardware intended for prolonged exposure to extreme space environments.
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