MK1-Avionics System Engineer III - Command & Data Handling Verified today

About the Role

You will work within the Avionics Command and Data Handling (C&DH) team as a Senior Avionics Systems Engineer, developing the Blue Moon landers and infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo to the lunar surface. Your contributions will directly impact the development of sustainable lunar transport solutions through hardware/software integration and networked systems design.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to or lead C&DH architecture trade studies, concept development, verification planning, vehicle integration, and operations support
• Analyze, manage, and interpret requirements at the C&DH subsystem level and flow down requirements to lower-level component specifications
• Generate verification and validation plans, and work with Integration and Test team to ensure the C&DH subsystem meets requirements
• Develop and manage network architecture, integrating multiple subsystems while ensuring deterministic performance and budget compliance
• Develop and manage C&DH fault tree analyses and other reliability analyses across the system lifecycle
• Produce technical writing including procedural definitions, specifications, interfaces, and analysis documents
• Contribute to design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR) and ensure technical artifacts meet quality and compliance standards
• Provide technical mentorship and peer review within the avionics engineering team

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical subject area
• 5 or more years relevant experience in full life cycle development of avionics systems, including requirements, design, integration, test, and operations
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems
• Understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, flow-down, circuit design, interface definition, hardware specifications, interface control, analyses, and verification
• Demonstrated expertise delivering complex, safety critical C&DH or similarly highly integrated avionics systems involving multiple subsystems and networked and IO interfaces
• Demonstrated expertise configuring and managing time-sensitive, deterministic networks such as Time Sensitive Networking, ARINC 664, Time Triggered Ethernet, or similar approaches
• Demonstrated expertise with Network/Precision Time Protocol and layer 2/3 networking (Ethernet, VLANs, QoS, IP, TCP/UDP, routing, etc.)
• Demonstrated functional understanding of common electrical digital and analog interfaces (Serial Bus Communications, Video, Audio, Ethernet, Analog Sensors, etc.)
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships
• Strong ability and desire to analyze complex systems and deliver results-oriented solutions
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, dynamic work environment

Desired Qualifications

• M.S. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, Software, Electrical, or related technical subject area
• Experience with human-rated spacecraft
• Experience with full spacecraft design life cycle
• Experience developing and delivering integrated, space qualified hardware/software components
• Experience with network topologies, architectures, and design principles
• Experience with spacecraft communication protocols (CCSDS)
• Experience with systems safety design practices
• Experience with electrical architecture diagramming practices and tools including MS Visio
• Experience with software tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Creo, Jama, Cameo, Confluence, and JIRA

Compensation and Location

Base pay range for Washington applicants: $130,706.00 to $182,987.70. Other site ranges may differ.

Employment Requirements

Applicants for employment 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.

Background check required for all positions. Additional checks may apply based on role requirements, including DBIDS background check if work requires access to military installations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with company match up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Bonus eligibility based on role type and job level (not guaranteed)