• Typically requires a bachelor's, master's, or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution, plus progressive engineering experience: 12+ years with a bachelor's, 10+ years with a master's, or 7+ years with a PhD. Equivalent engineering experience may substitute for education. • Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline preferred. • Demonstrates extensive technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice to complex aerospace or defense systems, including aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, avionics, or similarly complex multidisciplinary systems. • Demonstrated ability to independently resolve highly complex technical problems involving multiple systems, interfaces, and engineering disciplines. • Extensive experience in one or more avionics areas, including navigation, communications, identification/IFF, aircraft networks and data buses, flight-control interfaces, vehicle-management systems, aircraft computers/controllers, sensors, mission-system interfaces, or electrical and signal interfaces. • Experience developing, reviewing, and managing system and subsystem requirements, including decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, and baseline control; developing or managing avionics interfaces and Interface Control Documents; and integrating avionics hardware, software, and system-level interfaces. • Experience evaluating technical changes for impacts across requirements, architecture, interfaces, hardware, software, test, and aircraft configuration, and developing recommendations based on those impacts. • Experience supporting system integration, laboratory, aircraft ground, qualification, and/or flight testing. Experience troubleshooting complex hardware/software/interface integration issues is highly desired. • Experience with avionics modernization, technology insertion, sustainment, obsolescence management, and common avionics communication interfaces/data buses is highly desired. • Experience with requirements tools such as Jama, DOORS, or equivalent; MBSE and architecture tools such as Cameo/MagicDraw, SysML, or equivalent; and systems engineering products such as functional decompositions, sequence diagrams, interface models, and other architecture products is desired. • Experience with configuration management, engineering change control, baseline/release management, and major technical reviews such as SRR, SDR, PDR, CDR/FDR, and TRR is desired. • Experience with unmanned or military aircraft and with suppliers, subcontractors, customers, and government organizations is highly desirable. • Strong technical leadership, communication, presentation, interpersonal, mentoring, and technical-direction skills. Must communicate complex avionics and system-level issues clearly to engineering teams, program leadership, suppliers, customers, and government representatives; work independently with limited direction; coordinate across multidisciplinary organizations; and balance technical performance, integration, cost, schedule, and program constraints. • Must be able to work extended hours as required and obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance. Highly Desired Experience • UAS aircraft avionics architecture. • Integration of new avionics into mature or fielded aircraft. • Avionics hardware and software modernization. • Aircraft network and data-bus integration. • Navigation, communications, IFF, flight-control, or vehicle-management systems. • Requirements and ICD ownership. • SIL/HIL and aircraft-level integration. • Ground and flight test. • Configuration-specific change-impact analysis. • Verification and regression-test planning. • Sustainment and avionics obsolescence management. • Foreign language proficiency relevant to international customers, partners, suppliers, or program activities.