The Senior Manager of Cockpit Systems Platforms will organize and lead a multi-discipline engineering group of 10 - 20 people, responsible for the design, verification, and certification of hardware and low-level software for high-reliability, safety-critical, airborne products. The engineering group is expected to consist of electrical, mechanical, software, and test engineers.

Position Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain department capabilities with a cost-effective team of direct employees, outsource partners, and suppliers.
• Mentor and grow engineering and leadership talent.
• Guide multiple products from conception through production, including functional and technical requirements, verification, integration, environmental and EMI testing, certification and production.
• Maintain multiple fielded designs for sustained production, and repair, including modifications for cost-reductions, obsolete parts, and field performance improvements.
• Manage electrical, mechanical, and low-level software design of electronic products
• Manage the design and build of test equipment for development and production.
• Participate in product strategy development and road-mapping of new technologies and products.
• Work closely with program management office to ensure alignment of project spend and delivery schedule.
• Work closely with display and cockpit systems applications groups to integrate application-level software into the platform.
• Work closely with production to implement product and card-level testing, optimize production cost, and address obsolescence issues.
• Communicate product vision and capabilities to regulators, customers, and internal audiences.
• Serve as a member of the senior engineering management team, shaping engineering department organization and policies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering or physical sciences from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in electronics design and development with experience as a functional manager and project manager.
• Experience in current development tools and methodologies and comfortable setting the direction of development teams,
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering and leadership talent.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written and group presentations).
• Exhibits interpersonal skills necessary to address business issues and conflicts that arise across organizational boundaries.
• Capable of establishing relationships with and leading outsource partners and suppliers
• Strong project management skills
• Permanently eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in electrical, mechanical, or computer engineering
• Experience leading and managing multi-discipline engineering groups
• Experience applying RTCA DO-160, DO-254, and DO-178
• Experience with FAA certified product development (TSO and/or STC/TC)
• Ability to travel

Products Include-

Data Acquisition and Concentrator Units:

• Process analog and digital aircraft signals including ARINC-429, RS-232, RS-422, Ethernet
• Analog to digital and digital to digital conversion
• High-reliability, redundant architectures with dual power supplies
• Embedded software applications, with and without real-time operating systems
• Passive and active cooling applications

Flight Displays and Mission & Display Processors:

• Primary flight, navigation, engine, system synoptic, and crew alerting applications
• High-reliability, safety-critical LCD displays for commercial and military applications
• Multiple form factors including 3ATI, 6x8-inch, and large area displays
• Integrated processing of analog and digital aircraft signals
• Integrated real-time 3D and 2D graphics processing
• Integrated video processing capabilities (scaling, cropping, and merging) of external video sources
• Support wide range of ambient light conditions from sunlight readable to NVIS compatible
• Durable human-machine interface, including push-button and rotary controls, and touch-screen controls
• Passive cooling

Flight Control Systems:

• Actuator control applications for primary and secondary flight control surfaces
• High-reliability, safety-critical, redundant architectures
• Rugged, passively cooled enclosures designed for external aircraft environments