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Systems Architecture, Integration, and Design

Responsibilities

  • Identify, validate, and allocate an integrated set of product requirements that results in a balanced design.
  • Perform analysis to ensure the design as a whole is well understood under normal and non-normal operating conditions.
  • Identify and manage risks.

Preferred Majors

Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Software or Systems

Available Sites

Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ; Southern California; Colorado Springs, CO; St. Louis, MO; Ridley Park, PA; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA area

Customer Engineering

Responsibilities

  • Support purchaser activities.
  • Analyze and improve processes.
  • Improve tools and data from various databases.

Preferred Majors

Civil, Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical

Available Sites

Seattle, WA area

Certification

Responsibilities

  • Define the regulatory certification requirements for a specific product.
  • Review for accuracy, facilitate necessary changes, track program to certification schedule, and document data correction.

Preferred Majors

Aerospace/Aeronautical, Chemical, Electrical, Math, Mechanical, Physics, Systems

Available Sites

Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ; Southern California; Colorado Springs, CO; St. Louis, MO; Ridley Park, PA; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA area

Regulatory Administration

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate development of regulatory certification requirements and means of compliance, address certification risk items, and facilitate resolution of technical issues.

Preferred Majors

Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Systems

Available Sites

Southern California; Seattle, WA area

System Safety

Responsibilities

  • Analyze accident, incident, event, and systems performance data to determine safety risk levels.
  • Identify and analyze potential safety hazards in design, operational procedures, maintenance practices, and manufacturing processes.
  • Coordinate analyses for Safety Review Board and Engineering Investigation Board reviews and corrective actions through the functional design organizations and various government agencies.

Preferred Majors

Aerospace/Aeronautical, Mechanical, Systems

Available Sites

Seattle, WA area

Reliability, Maintainability, System Health, Survivability, Vulnerability, Susceptibility, Testability

Responsibilities

  • Perform failure modes and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, 3D human modeling for maintenance access, reliability, and maintainability predictions, and component analysis to assess design characteristics.
  • Gather and provide data to report validation and verification compliance activities through analysis, inspection, or demonstration, or test to assess adherence to specifications or regulatory requirements.
  • Have a basic knowledge of root cause analysis and corrective action, failure mode effect, and criticality mission analysis for development and in-service products.

Preferred Majors

Aerospace/Aeronautical, Chemical, Electrical, Math, Mechanical, Physics, Systems

Available Sites

Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ, Southern California; Colorado Springs, CO; St. Louis, MO; Oklahoma City, OK; Ridley Park, PA; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA area

Product Life Cycle Management

Responsibilities

  • Analyze engineering design, manufacturing, and product support requirements to develop and implement new process and tool technologies.
  • Apply an understanding of product design and build processes and standard methods to construct program planning models simulating the multifunctional dependencies of the product development life cycle.

Preferred Majors

Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Systems

Available Sites

Seattle, WA area; Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ; Southern California; St. Louis, MO

Human System Integration and Human Factors and Ergonomics

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain an effective and efficient flight crew interface.
  • Apply basic knowledge of human capabilities and constraints along with knowledge of users and their environments to assist in development, test, and evaluation of safe and effective user interfaces.

Preferred Majors

Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace (MS Human Factors), Chemical, Electrical, Math, Physics, Systems

Available Sites

Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ; Southern California; Colorado Springs, CO; St. Louis, MO; Oklahoma City, OK; Ridley Park, PA; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA area

Modeling, Simulation, and Operational Analysis

Responsibilities

  • Apply knowledge of mathematical modeling and advanced mathematics.
  • Perform multidisciplinary trade studies.
  • Perform operational effectiveness analysis methodologies (mission and system).
  • Resolve customer, industry, and government requirements, interfaces, and operational effectiveness and perform lifecycle cost analysis.

Preferred Majors

Electrical, Software, Systems

Available Sites

Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ; Southern California; Colorado Springs, CO; St. Louis, MO; Oklahoma City, OK; Ridley Park, PA; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA area

Communications and System Security

Responsibilities

  • Apply network communication concepts, principles, and architectures.
  • Apply end-to-end knowledge of network transport technologies, systems, environments, services, protocols, performance monitoring, and diagnostic analysis.
  • Apply knowledge of verification, validation, certification, qualification processes, and procedures.
  • Work with system security domains (information assurance, anti-tamper, intrusion detection, software protection, software assurance, communications security, encryption, key management, and countermeasures).

Preferred Majors

Communication Systems, Electrical, Software, Systems

Available Sites

Huntsville, AL; Mesa, AZ; Southern California; Colorado Springs, CO; St. Louis, MO; Oklahoma City, OK; Ridley Park, PA; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA area

Mechanical Systems Design and Analysis

Responsibilities

  • Define aircraft environmental controls systems (ECS)—architecture, performance, analysis, certification, and validation.
  • Perform ECS design and spatial integration, develop fabrication plans, and coordinate manufacturing.
  • Perform supplier coordination and management—requirements definition, technical oversight, and project management.

Preferred Majors

Mechanical, Aerospace, Aviation, Environmental; emphasis in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer

Available Sites

Seattle, WA area

Mechanical Hydraulics

Responsibilities

  • Develop and functionally integrate mechanical, electronic, hydraulic, and thermal requirements to create architectures and designs for the following aircraft systems: brake control, antiskid, and autobrake; landing gear actuation; steering; cargo door actuation; and hydraulic power generation.
  • Research and investigate emerging technologies to ensure that future system designs bring value to the aircraft and lead competition in the marketplace.

Preferred Majors

Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Physics

Available Sites

Seattle, WA area