Avidyne exists to make aircraft easier to fly. Our Hardware Engineering team is a multidisciplinary, tight-knit group of engineers and technicians who develop, certify, and support our next generation of airborne sensors, displays, and flight management systems.
What You'll Do
• Defining and capturing hardware system features, functions, and interfaces, and guiding our avionics projects through development and certification.
• Writing hardware specifications, requirements, and test procedures, and making sure our products meet customer, regulatory, and internal requirements.
• Turning technical standards into system requirements and test plans and leading the definition and capture of certification and compliance requirements.
• Leading the development effort through every phase of a formal software and hardware lifecycle, per Avidyne's internal processes, DO-178C, and DO-254 as required.
• Completing System Safety Assessments (SSA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Reliability Predictions per FAA guidance and industry or military standards.
• Tracing system requirements to hardware component requirements, and verification test cases back to requirements, so system verification is complete.
• Performing verification tests, and authoring and releasing verification reports.
• Managing the System Engineering and Verification Document Tree.
• Taking part in design reviews that lead to well-developed test plans and procedures and coordinating them.
• Building and maintaining relationships with customers, FAA certification authorities, and other key stakeholders.
Why Avidyne
At Avidyne, we exist to make aircraft easier to fly. Our mission, Simply Flying, guides the products we design and the way we work. We build avionics that are high-quality, intuitive, and straightforward to install, helping pilots focus on what matters most.
You'll be a key member of a tight-knit team that works across disciplines and takes products from first requirement through FAA certification.
What You Bring
• Undergraduate degree in Systems, Computer, Aerospace, Math, Physics, or another engineering discipline.
• At least 3 years of industry experience in systems engineering, requirements development, and requirements management, and related tools (e.g., DOORS), or a Master's degree in a related field plus 2 years of similar industry experience.
• Knowledge of systems and test engineering principles, and of requirements development and management.
• Strong verbal and written communication, including technical documentation.
• Initiative, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities, moving deadlines, evolving requirements, and changing focus.
• Ability to identify and resolve complex problems.
• Willingness and ability to mentor others.
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite.
Bonus Points
• Master's degree from an ABET-accredited program, or other formal training in systems engineering.
• Knowledge or experience with aircraft avionics systems.
• Knowledge or experience with 14 CFR Part 23, 25, 27, or 29 aircraft.
• Knowledge or experience with commercial avionics standards and processes such as RTCA DO-178C, RTCA DO-254, and AC 23.1209-1E.
• Familiarity with FAA TSO, STC, ASTM, and/or TC processes.
• Experience with DOORS requirements management software.
• Familiarity with DO-160 environmental qualification, including HIRF and lightning.
• Pilot's license, flight training, or familiarity with general aviation.
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree in Systems, Computer, Aerospace, Mathematics, Physics, or another engineering discipline
- At least 3 years of industry experience in systems engineering, requirements development, requirements management, and related tools such as DOORS
- Alternatively, a related master's degree plus at least 2 years of similar industry experience
- Knowledge of systems and test engineering principles
- Knowledge of requirements development and management
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including technical documentation
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, changing deadlines, evolving requirements, and changing focus
- Ability to identify and resolve complex problems
- Willingness and ability to mentor others
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Master's degree from an ABET-accredited program or formal systems engineering training
- Knowledge or experience with aircraft avionics systems
- Knowledge or experience with 14 CFR Part 23, 25, 27, or 29 aircraft
- Knowledge or experience with RTCA DO-178C, RTCA DO-254, and AC 23.1209-1E
- Familiarity with FAA TSO, STC, ASTM, or type certification processes
- Experience with DOORS requirements management software
- Familiarity with DO-160 environmental qualification, including HIRF and lightning
- Pilot's license, flight training, or familiarity with general aviation
What We Do
For over 25 years, Avidyne has been inventing new ways to make flying easier for pilots who fly small planes, business jets, helicopters and advanced air mobility aircraft. With all phases of design and manufacturing done in the USA we are headquartered in Melbourne, FL and have additional facilities in Westerville, OH, and Concord, MA. Experienced entrepreneur and pilot Dan Schwinn founded Avidyne in 1994 with the mission of modernizing GA avionics with technology that improved safety and increased aircraft utility and value. “As a pilot and aircraft owner, I was struck by how little GA cockpits had changed over the last thirty years,” said Schwinn. “I saw huge potential to develop a core technology and define a new generation of avionics that improve flight safety.”
