This job has closed.

Astrion · 5 hours ago

Instrumentation Engineer

Huntsville, AL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division. The role involves supporting ground and flight testing for aircraft modification programs, collaborating with the Flight Test team to define instrumentation requirements, and developing controls and documentation for instrumentation systems.

ManufacturingSpace Travel

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Support ground and flight testing for a variety of aircraft modification programs

Collaborate with the Flight Test team to define each program’s instrumentation requirements, as well as modify/maintain the data acquisition system hardware and software, support instrumentation planning, installation, and calibration

Support procurement activities such as specification development, cost estimating, quote review, question and answer sessions, vendor documentation review, site acceptance review

Assess, design, develop, integrate, and test system instrumentation components

Coordinate with flight test engineers and provide PDR, CDR of instrumentation system design parameters list

Work with techs to support hardware calibration in the lab, installation of instrumentation on the aircraft, and provide airworthiness a detailed report of system functionality

Develop controls and instrumentation documentation such as requirement definition, logic and flow diagrams, interface definition, software design documents, instrumentation, and device I/O documentation, etc

Qualification

Instrumentation sensorsEngineering degreeMIL-STD-1553MATLABSolidWorks ElectricalElectrical schematicsTechnical trainingMicrosoft applicationsTeam leadership

Required

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance

Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited school or a degree in an applicable technical specialty

10+ years' experience in engineering design, fabrication, research, and/or testing of instrumentation sensors and data collection

Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff. Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration

Familiar with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 and aircraft transducers, experience with low-speed data systems and pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTDs, flowmeters, strain gages and high-speed data systems, accelerometers, high frequency pressure transducers

Very familiar with engineering and mathematics applications software's such as Maple MathCAD and MATLAB; compute and graph simple and complex mathematical expressions, discrete sequences and systems, audio and image processing and construction of simple Simulink models

Multisim or Electronic Workbench; design, simulate and analyze analog and digital circuits schematics

Familiar with Creo schematics & Parametric with Windchill

Familiar with electrical instruments such as function generators, digital multimeter and oscilloscope

Experience using DIT-MCO and Cablescan electrical testing software

Experience with NI LabView Test Stand, DEWESOFT & Safran flight test products

Experience with SolidWorks Electrical & Mentor Graphics

Experience in trouble shooting of electrical system down to component level

Familiar with Creo-Parametric and windchill

Familiar with RF Antenna & receiver setup for telemetry systems

Proficient with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

(U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants)