As an Advanced Systems Engineer on the Surface Defense Navigation Team at Honeywell Aerospace, you will be serving as a Product Support Engineer (PSE), the critical technical bridge between Production Engineering and Product Development for our embedded navigation products. This role is ideal for someone eager to develop deep product expertise and drive improvements across production, test, supplier quality, and lifecycle sustainment.
The PSE will represent the product team in the production environment, ensuring production issues are addressed quickly, root-caused effectively, and fed back into design improvements. The role blends hands-on systems troubleshooting, cross-functional coordination, production test support, and sustaining engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the product team’s primary liaison to Production Engineering, coordinating responses to production test failures, supplier issues, and factory support needs.
- Provide system-level troubleshooting guidance to production technicians and help drive efficient root-cause identification.
- Lead evaluation, testing, and rollout of new and updated production test software for new product development and sustainment.
- Collaborate with Production and Test Engineering to improve product yield, reduce recurring issues, and enhance process capability.
- Track and manage parts obsolescence risks for products in production and coordinate mitigation plans with Design Engineering.
- Channel production feedback and recurring technical issues back to Product Development to support continuous improvement.
- Become a product expert, understanding embedded navigation system architecture, operation, and subsystem interactions.
- Support cross-functional teams by contributing to data reviews, failure trend analysis, and technical decision-making for product health.
YOU MUST HAVE
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in technical disciplines such as the sciences, technology, engineering or mathematics.
- 5 years of experience in engineering
- 3 years of electrical troubleshooting skills, ideally with embedded systems.
- 3 years of experience interpreting schematics, test data, and system logs.
- Ability to translate system behavior into clear guidance for technicians and cross-functional partners.
- Communication skills with the ability to coordinate across production, design, supplier, and test organizations.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent issues with strong ownership and follow-through.
WE VALUE
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related fields
- Experience with GPS, inertial navigation systems, and other positioning technologies
- Experience in production support or sustaining engineering for electro‑mechanical or embedded systems.
- Familiarity with manufacturing test equipment, automated test software, and factory validation processes.
- Understanding of component lifecycle management and supplier quality processes.
ABOUT HONEYWELL AEROSPACE
Join a company that's reintroducing itself to the aviation community we've helped advance for more than a century. At Honeywell Aerospace (NASDAQ: HONA), we're launching as an independent, publicly traded aerospace and defense company built on a legacy of operational excellence and mission-focused execution.
Our new brand identity pairs that heritage with real momentum, as we build technology that helps pilots navigate with confidence, aircraft operate more efficiently, and operators stay ahead of change. With our systems on board 90% of the world's aircraft, your work here has reach, that's rare to find anywhere else.
Focusing on our customers, investing in innovation, and building a culture of accountability and performance is how we're shaping what comes next.
Every horizon. Every mission. Every day.
BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL AEROSPACE
Beyond a performance-driven salary, you'll work alongside dedicated experts on technology that's advancing aviation. As a Honeywell Aerospace employee, you're eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program and educational assistance
- Parental leave and 12 paid holidays
- Paid time off for vacation, personal and sick time
Explore your benefits: https://honeywellaerospacebenefits.com/
The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting Date: September 4, 2026
Sponsorship
We are currently not sponsoring applicants for work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
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U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENT
Must be a US Citizen due to contractual requirements.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or another technical discipline
- 5 years of engineering experience
- 3 years of electrical troubleshooting experience, ideally with embedded systems
- 3 years of experience interpreting schematics, test data, and system logs
- Ability to translate system behavior into clear guidance for technicians and cross-functional partners
- Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across production, design, supplier, and test organizations
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent issues with strong ownership and follow-through
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with GPS, inertial navigation systems, and other positioning technologies
- Experience in production support or sustaining engineering for electromechanical or embedded systems
- Familiarity with manufacturing test equipment, automated test software, and factory validation processes
- Understanding of component lifecycle management and supplier quality processes
- U.S. citizenship
- Current authorization to work full-time in the United States without visa sponsorship
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Aerospace Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by The Aerospace Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
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What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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