Instrumentation Engineer en Astrion

Instrumentation Engineer

LOCATION: Redstone Arsenal, AL       

JOB STATUS: Full-time

Clearance: Ability to Obtain Secret

TRAVEL: ~10%

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• 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)

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• 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.
• Experience initiating and developing requirements for DoD project execution.
• Ability to read and create electrical schematics.
• Ability to create or modify Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) data streams.
• Working knowledge of programming numerical systems and how to interface with, and record data from, military aviation platforms.

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.

Be the Difference

Astrion offers comprehensive services that boost preparedness, optimize performance, and ensure success across various domains, from Cyber to Digital, Mission and Systems, servicing our nation's Civilian, Defense and Space communities. We support customers with Centers of Excellence in Washington DC, Huntsville, AL and Burlington, MA with an additional 36 locations across the U.S.

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Professional development allotment
• Multiple healthcare benefits packages
• 401K with employer matching
• Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule

Who We Are

At Astrion, we innovate, elevate, and shape the world of tomorrow. At our core is our purpose to “Be the Difference”. This means we encourage our employees to take action and be the driving force for positive change. We foster an environment where innovative solutions flourish and our company continuously evolves.

We have a culture of care, empathy, and making a tangible difference within our organization and communities. We embrace continuous learning, growth, and innovation, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We promote collaboration and empowering our teams is at the core of our success.

Join Astrion and Be the Difference in your career and the world!

Astrion is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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