Job Title: Systems Architech Engineer

Functional Area: Engineering

Requsition Number: 7319

Work Location: Interiors -(Electronic Systems Center) Phoenix AZ

Job Description Summary: Position Overview

Because of a strategic commitment, Goodrich Corporation has initiated the creation of an Electronic Systems Center (ESC) headquartered in scenic Phoenix, AZ. The ESC will support a wide variety of Goodrich aerospace products with state-of-the-art facilities and expertise. The ESC team will design, test, build, and support electronic components and systems for all parts of the Enterprise. As a systems engineer you will be working in a focused, cross-functional team of engineers developing avionics products.

Primary Responsibilities

Execution of Engineering Projects:

- Performs Joint Development of new Aircraft Systems with existing and new customers with a heavy focus on up-front system architecture definition considering certification requirements, system safety assessments and fault trees.

- Establishes systems and sub-system design requirements traceability, flow down requirements, develop and test.

- Develops complex sub-system trade studies, algorithms and error budgets.

- Drives the usage of appropriate Lean Product Development tools to support cost-effective technical solutions with heavy focus on platform design, reuse and knowledge-management.

- Defines system interfaces and performs aircraft and HW/SW integration testing to those interfaces.

Leadership:

- Performs the full life-cycle systems development tasks with minimal amount of supervision and direction from the engineering manager
- Mentors and train junior engineers to improve their creativity, thoroughness, and technical savvy.

Basic Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required:

- BS degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Sciencewith at least 10 years of experience in the Aerospace Industry.

- Broad based system design and development background (electronics, software, avionics) with strong experience in system design and architecting considering commercial aircraft certification requirements.

- FAA/EASA certification and audit experience with a solid understanding of how FHA, SSAs, Fault Trees, Certification Test Plans, Common-Mode Analyses, and other documents required for aircraft certification are constructed preferably providing input to these docs.

- System level requirements definition experience taking into account SAE ARP 4754, Fault Tree/System Safety Assessments, FAA/EASA regulations.

Critical competencies: Customer Focus, Drive for Results, Technical Skills, Interpersonal Savvy, Commitment to Continuous Improvement, Effective Teamwork.

Preferred:

- Experience with system modeling to support hardware/software partitioning, trade studies, overall design decisions, and to predict total system performance.

- Development of System Description Documents, Certification Test Plans, Common-Mode Analyses, and other documents required for aircraft certification.

- Complete development life-cycle experience: requirements, design, development, integration, and qualification tested to the requirements of DO-178B.

- DER qualifications or history

% Travel Required: 10 - 20%