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Project Engineer Flight Controls

EXI, inc

Project Engineer Flight Controls

Los Angeles, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

     

    As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll have substantial control over the effectiveness of the overall technical solution developed for primary and secondary flight control actuation systems. This includes, but not limited to, system design for performance and fault tolerance, interfaces, and control algorithms.

     

     

    Senior Systems Engineers work on:

    Defining and management of flight control actuation system requirements,

    Building physics-based models of flight control actuation systems system,

    Determining use cases and stakeholders over the entire product lifecycle,

    Decomposing requirements to other design functions and managing overall compliance and verification coverage, and

    Achieving customer and internal objectives while balancing cost, schedule, and risk considerations

     

    Lead functional analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements decomposition and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into compliant and producible product specifications

    Create system level models, design tools, and simulations necessary to support customer trades during early business development efforts and effectively derive design requirements to guide the cross-functional project team

    Be responsible for the identification and definition of all verification and validation approaches for the system

    Create concise reports and proposal write-ups that describe design decisions, test and analysis results, and anomaly investigations

    BS or MS Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Computer or Systems Engineering, or related field, from an accredited university

    10 years of progressive experience in the field of System Engineering or a related field

    Demonstrated experience with requirements management, verification and validation methods, control system design, integration and test

    Project Engineering leadership skills

    Excellent verbal and written skills required

    Team player with excellent communication and people skills

    Ability to obtain a government security clearance and access to Special Programs

    Travel Requirements: Travel to other sites, customer sites is required – 10-25%

     

     

    Preferred qualifications include:

     

    Experience working with safety critical systems (including hardware and software)

    Experience with hydro-mechanical and/or electro-mechanical actuation technologies

    Experience with control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) using Space Vector Modulation (SVM)

    Familiarity with Reference Frame Theory and Field Oriented Control of electric motors

    Familiarity with control system design and aircraft flight control systems

    Experience in Matlab / Simulink / Stateflow tools as a mechanism for driving requirements development

    Proficiencies in Model-Based System Engineering as a framework for system architecture development

     

     

     

     

    Core competencies in flight control systems, hydraulic /mechanical actuation technologies, modeling

    Demonstrated experience working with the development of flight control actuation systems

    Security Clearance Required: Yes

    Full-time Benefits - Full

    Relocation Assistance Available - Yes

    Bonus Eligible - Yes

    Interview Travel Reimbursed - Yes

    Candidate Details

    7+ to 10 years experience

    Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree

    Willingness to Travel - Occasionally

    Company Description

    At EXI, Inc. we specialize in finding and placing the right people in the right positions with the right companies. Is your company looking for the perfect person to fill a key position or are you seeking to assemble a complete management team for a corporate turnaround or transformation? If you are a professional who's seeking the challenge and the opportunity that will take your career to new heights? Either way, EXI, Inc. can make it happen. EXI, Inc. is always on the lookout for quality candidates to fill executive positions with top-level companies. We have our finger on the pulse of the industry, and we have built relationships with the people and companies who offer first-rate opportunities.