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SalaryAbout You:
Do you enjoy hands-on development, integration, and testing at the cutting edge of aerospace technology? Do you enjoy fast paced problem solving? Are you self-motivated and have a critical eye for flight safety and flight test details? Do you love the idea of more widely proliferated and safer flying machines, accessible to all? If so, you might be a good fit for the hardware flight testing team here at Merlin.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and perform avionics systems development, integration and testing of components of our aircraft autonomy system.
- Specify, identify, integrate and verify Commercial/Modified-Off-the-Shelf (COTS/MOTS) electronic subsystems for aircraft installation.
- Work with suppliers, managing their performance to requirements, budget and schedule.
- Write and maintain electrical systems requirements documents, electrical load analyses, and other related documents for prototyping and certification.
- Write, maintain and execute test plans and design verification documents.
- Prepare and release electrical design and fabrication documentation for partners, vendors, and customers.
- Provide guidance to other electrical engineers and technicians across the team working on electrical and electronic aspects of the system architecture and schematics including power, computer, electro-mechanical, interconnect systems, wireless communications, cable harnesses, packaging, cable routing, and user interfaces and controls.
- This position may require up to 50% travel to both domestic and international locations to support hardware integration.
Qualifications:
- BS in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering.
- 10+ years of relevant systems level electrical systems and integration design experience for the aviation, aerospace, industries.
- Experience integrating and testing complex systems.
- Experience with component specification, supplier interaction, and procurement processes.
- Experience integrating and debugging systems containing COTS/MOTS modules, custom circuits, software, sensors, and human / machine / graphical user interfaces.
- Working knowledge of integrating various components using standard interface protocols such as ARINC 429, RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485.
- Familiarity with lab test equipment, including oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes, data acquisition, and bus analyzers.
- Experience with wire harness design and connector component selection and sourcing.
- Outstanding organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
Nice to Have:
- Specific experience with aircraft avionics, communications, and power distribution and management systems.
- Working knowledge and understanding of the qualification and regulatory requirements for commercial and military aircraft. Specifically: RTCA DO-160, DO-178, DO-254; and MIL-STD-810.
- Hands-on capability in a lab/field setting and able to function comfortably as an electromechanical technician to build and prove out designs. (SMT soldering, drilling, wiring, crimping, use of hand tools, design/build of cable assemblies.)
- Hands-on experience with electro-mechanical systems such as motors and associated EMI/EMC design and qualification testing.
- Aviation/Aerospace wire harness design experience.
- Experience with design tools such as SolidWorks Electrical, Altium, or KiCAD.
