Avionics Telemetry Engineer Verified today
The Role
Stratolaunch is seeking a Level II or Senior Avionics Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of hypersonic aircraft avionics systems, with a focus on Telemetry. You will collaborate with system owners to understand test requirements and operations support needs for multiple test ranges.
What You'll Do
- Develop instrumentation, network, and telemetry system requirements, architecture, testing, and operation for local and extended range missions
- Ensure data system assets are prepared for flight test and support flight operations
- Select sensors, data acquisition units, computers, network switches, and design harnesses for new equipment
- Manage and configure aircraft instrumentation systems for real-time mission monitoring and post-flight analysis
- Develop and maintain software tools for configuration management, simulation, deployment, and data analysis
- Document and manage subsystem requirements for each new aircraft configuration
- Develop and support instrumentation, network, and telemetry tests
- Support integration testing including power checks, sensor calibration, and equipment checkout
- Collaborate with design engineers, network engineers, and technicians
- Prepare material for design reviews, flight readiness reviews, and post-operation reviews
Required Qualifications
- Experience in Telemetry, Instrumentation, or Network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment
- Experience with Ethernet networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, multicasting
- Experience integrating data acquisition instrumentation (Analog, discrete, and digital protocols such as ARINC 429) from distributed systems with mission control software
- Knowledge of RF devices such as transmitters, receivers, encoders/decoders
- Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers
- Experience writing system requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to obtain and maintain SECRET or above level security clearance
- Expertise with at least one programming language: C/C++/C#, Python, or similar
- Familiarity with continuous integration toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo
- Experience with source control systems such as Git
- Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with complex payload and/or guided systems
- Experience integrating a high Mach or hypersonic system onto a military platform
- Flight test program instrumentation system experience
- Experience designing and manufacturing aircraft harnesses
- Aircraft and/or launch vehicle development experience
- Experience configuring and monitoring RF telemetry components for end-to-end testing
- Knowledge of IRIG 106 CH4, CH 10, CH 7 or other telemetry standards
- Hands-on aircraft build, piloting, and flight test experience
- Experience with requirements management tools such as JAMA or Doors
- Mission Control Room console experience
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Experience with relational, document and time-series databases
- Experience with Curtiss-Wright or Safran Data Acquisition Units
Education and Experience
Level II: Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience. Salary range $101,100 to $146,500.
Senior Level: Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience. Salary range $120,500 to $158,000.
Work Environment
- Position based in Mojave, California
- Travel as needed to support the department, estimated at less than 10%
- May involve operation of company vehicles
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
- 50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500
- Tuition reimbursement