Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) conducts research supporting sponsors across the Department of Defense and focuses on air and missile defense, integrated electronic warfare systems, autonomous systems, integrated intelligence systems, avionics systems, systems architectures, systems integration, human-centered engineering, test and evaluation, virtual and constructive training, and mission planning.

Job Purpose

The Avionics Engineer defines and designs military avionic systems and systems-of-systems. Specifically, the Avionics Engineer develops integrated system-level designs, and hardware and software subsystems designs. These designs are associated to avionic functions such as navigation, tactical data links, electronic warfare, defensive countermeasures, intelligence, and integrated system functions like data fusion and resource management. These design efforts include integrating the avionics systems within the aircraft, aircraft-to-aircraft, and aircraft-to-ground systems The Avionics Engineer applies knowledge specific to aircraft such as safety (e.g. FAA standards), security, robustness, and performance. Additionally, the Avionics Engineer analyzes laboratory and flight test data for functionality and performance. The Avionics Engineer also provides expertise and technical leadership to programs and sponsors to achieve overall goals through the full development life cycle (i.e., requirements development to final delivery). Tools and methodologies used by the Avionics Engineer includes Model Based System Engineering, laboratory analysis hardware, software development environments, and Agile methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the capture of multiple new research programs and maintain existing research.
• Define business unit technical vision and develop common cutting-edge technical approaches across business unit projects.
• Consult and mentor internal product leads and intervene in underperforming projects to ensure objectives are met.
• Conduct product or system design synthesis translating requirements into common architectures for systems of high complexity.
• Review technical reports and specifications detailing product or system attributes.
• Lead large project tasks and/or programs and provide technical status and plans to Project Director.
• Serve as a resource and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for avionics engineering tools and technologies.
• Serve as primary author to whitepapers and proposals.
• Provide significant technical impact on sponsor base and gain trust in community.
• Contribute to overall community's knowledge through publishing, presenting, and participating in national societies and symposia.
• Lead Organizational Strategy development in Avionics Engineering domain

Additional Responsibilities

• Serve as a business and technical expert on team’s product-lines.
• Assist with the development of product-line strategies.
• Develop network of current and potential customers to promote team’s capabilities and capture projects solving national security needs.
• Lead cross-discipline project teams.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experience working with complex, software-intensive, military or avionics systems.
• Experience with integrated sensing systems associated electronic warfare or ISR.
• Experience leading project development teams.
• Experience developing product-line developing and marketing strategies.
• Experience developing Go-To-Market and branding strategies for product lines.
• Experience engaging with potential customers to solve problems and obtain business.
• UAS-related program customer interface experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• Experience technically leading multi-disciplined (System Engineers, Software Engineers, Test Engineer) project teams.
• Experience developing system design for integrated sensor systems.
• Experience in a full-lifecycle development program.
• Experience supporting field tests to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Experience designing/developing integrated military aircraft sensor systems.

Travel Requirements

• 10% - 25% travel.

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 14 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in any field of study.
• 12 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in any field of study.
• 9 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in any field of study.

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Benefits at GTRI

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

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