Senior Research Engineer - Avionics Hardware Design

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Advanced training or graduate study in electronics, signal integrity, power electronics, embedded systems, controls, or avionics is preferred.
• At least 5 years of progressive electrical engineering experience designing, analyzing, integrating, and testing electronic hardware, preferably in aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability environments.
• At least 4 years of hands-on schematic development and circuit analysis covering analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, interface, protection, and embedded electronic designs.
• At least 4 years of experience using PSpice, SPICE, or equivalent tools to model and analyze circuits, electrical signals, loads, power distribution, transients, tolerances, and system or interface behavior.
• At least 4 years of avionics or aerospace electronics experience involving aircraft electrical interfaces, embedded hardware, laboratory integration, troubleshooting, verification, or qualification.
• A valid, clear drivers license is required.

Responsibilities:

• Design, analyze, and integrate avionics electronic hardware, circuit card assemblies, and electrical interfaces for high-reliability aerospace and defense systems.
• Develop schematics and conduct circuit, signal, power distribution, loading, transient, and interface analyses using PSpice or equivalent modeling and simulation tools.
• Build electrical models to predict circuit and interface behavior across operating conditions, component tolerances, loads, power states, and system-level electrical environments.
• Lead hardware troubleshooting, design verification, laboratory integration, and root-cause analysis for analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, and embedded avionics electronics.
• Advance avionics hardware through requirements development, analysis, design, prototyping, integration, qualification, and technical data delivery in collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Develop and review schematics, component selections, interface circuits, grounding approaches, power architectures, and electrical design documentation.
• Perform simulations and develop circuit, signal integrity, power distribution, loading, transient, tolerance, and worst-case electrical models and analyses.
• Analyze aircraft and subsystem electrical interfaces, including voltage and current margins, grounding, impedance, noise, transients, power quality, distribution, and signal behavior.
• Support prototype bring-up, bench testing, HIL/SIL integration, troubleshooting, failure analysis, and verification of circuit card assemblies and avionics electronic subsystems.
• Collaborate with systems, software, firmware, mechanical, test, manufacturing, and qualification engineers to resolve integration issues and ensure hardware meets performance requirements.

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• SPICE

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Our Embedded Systems Section is part of the Strategic Aerospace Department, where we deliver engineering solutions for the aerospace community. Our expertise includes systems engineering, technology insertion, requirements generation, cybersecurity, trade studies, and full-lifecycle support. We design, develop, maintain, and produce advanced hardware and software, ranging from microcircuits to major subsystems for aircraft and ground support equipment, with a focus on mission-critical performance and innovation. This role supports the development and integration of reliable avionics hardware for aerospace and defense systems.

last updated 43 week of 2026