Senior Principal Airborne Electronic Hardware Engineer (REMOTE)

RTX is the world's largest aerospace and defense company, seeking an experienced Senior Principal Systems Engineer to support Avionics certification programs in the Airborne Electronic Hardware discipline. The role involves reviewing certification compliance data, interfacing with various stakeholders, and mentoring engineering teams in certification processes.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a compliance evaluator, to review hardware engineering artifacts to find compliance to the applicable systems guidance, standards, and regulations including but not limited to TSOs, DO-254, DO-297, Advisory Circulars, Foreign Certification Memos, etc
• Serve as compliance approver to formally approve engineering artifacts for compliance to the applicable guidance, standards, and regulations
• Work with engineering to resolve findings of non-compliance to the applicable guidance, standards, and regulations
• Provide certification interface with customers, design specialists, suppliers and subcontracts, allocating compliance demonstration expectations
• Mentor engineering during the development of detailed planning in the context of a program team, including customization of development processes
• Provide independent assessment of airworthiness process adherence
• Assure that project planning is accomplished to the appropriate level of fidelity and that development teams are following appropriate processes
• Understand and utilize internal processes, methods and tools for review and approval of engineering artifacts for compliance
• Understand current development and documentation processes and techniques. Review metrics and defect trends, identify systemic root causes and process improvements. Recommend new approaches, tools and techniques that drive continuous improvement in development, review and approval processes
• Maintain awareness of technology within the domains of their area of expertise and develop technology strategies for the domains in the area of expertise
• Complete recurrent training expectations applicable for finding compliance to guidance, standards, and regulations

Requirements:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract
• 8 years of progressively responsible engineering experience, including up to 4 years of educational experience
• Must have passed or be able to pass the TSO Compliance Representative (TCR) application/selection process to be nominated by Avionics Certification and authorized as a compliance approver
• Have significant domain knowledge and knowledge of products, systems and applicable regulatory requirements for hardware. May be considered a domain specialist or a generalist in multiple domains and/or systems areas of expertise