Sr. Avionics Engineer
Abacus Technology
- Fairborn, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support Aircraft Information Management Systems (AIMS) requirements, testing, certification, and spectrum management requirements, testing, and certification.
- Use Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) requirements, policies, and regulations to define requirements, complete compliance matrices, and support testing and certification of aircraft and supporting systems.
- Assist in reviewing, developing, and updating applicable program documentation for avionics engineering relevant requirements.
- Support and assist systems analyses to include, avionics system design, design feasibility, and state-of-the-art assessment.
- Assist the Government in developing systems specifications.
- Perform analyses of avionics and subsystems including but not limited to: system threat analysis, laser systems, computer systems, avionics interfaces, and multiplex bus communications, and identify potential issues and/or areas of improvement for Government consideration.
- Attend all technical reviews and provide technical advice on the path forward to installation of the new hardware and software into the system.
- Support and assist performance effectiveness, cost effectiveness, cost performance, life-cycle cost, producibility, maintainability, supportability, reliability, technical and schedule risk assessments, and scheduling trade-off studies.
- Assist in reviewing system specific test plans and participate in system, subsystem, and component testing.
- Assist in reviewing and performing assessments on program specific databases. Analyze Built in Test (BIT) failure reports and compare failure reports against the BIT.
- Review technical documents, determining sufficiency for demonstrating compliance with spec and airworthiness, summarizing findings, recommended changes, and communicating all results to program offices.
- Support technical interchange meetings with regards to updates/upgrades in area of controls and displays, data buses (including but not limited to MILSTD-1553B and ARINC-429), and data recording equipment.
- Support the avionics team in development of requirements for future upgrades to associated equipment.
- Apply knowledge in reviewing associated equipment airworthiness reports, in accordance with AFPD 62-6 USAF Airworthiness requirements.