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Honeywell Aerospace products and services are found on aircraft across commercial aviation, defense and space. We operate through three business areas:
Electronic Solutions develops the avionics, navigation systems, sensors and electromagnetic defense technology on board 90% of the world's aircraft.
Engines & Power Systems provides the propulsion, auxiliary power and electrical systems that keep those aircraft flying.
Control Systems supplies the thermal and motion control systems that support takeoff, landing and the safety of everyone on board.
With approximately 58,000 employees worldwide and net sales of $17.4B in 2025, we are also advancing systems for autonomous and supersonic platforms, bringing the same focus on safety and efficiency to the next era of flight.
Explore our businesses: https://www.honeywellaerospace.com
The Honeywell Aerospace Sr Advanced Application Engineer is responsible for Technically leading in servicing the customers by understanding their requirements, providing technical solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of aerospace databases. This role requires in-depth knowledge of aerospace domain, including end to end aerospace databases processing chain, and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Technical Leadership:
- Engage with external customers to understand their requirements, understand challenges, and provide tailored solutions. Need basis connect with customers over phone, understand the issue and provide quick solutions that meet the timeline.
- Collaborate with both internal/external customers throughout the production lifecycle to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Address customer issues from the perspective of NavDB FMS (Flight Management Systems) product, thereby significantly improving customer satisfaction.
2. Quality Assurance:
- Develop and enhance quality assurance protocols to ensure compliance with DO-200() regulations and standards.
- Implementing rigorous quality checks is vital to identifying and addressing any quality issues before the final product is delivered.
- Conduct/support technical reviews and audits both internal/external.
- Ability to regularly assess bottlenecks or inefficiencies, for timely adjustments to be made to optimize work procedures.
3. Source Supplier Interaction:
- Ability to work with external source supplier, to take up technical issues and get them resolved in acceptable timeframe.
Qualifications:
- Education:
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in any discipline with relevant aerospace work experience.
- Experience:
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in aerospace domain and also aerospace database production process knowledge is added advantage.
- Proven experience in providing technical solutions to the customer problems and also tools/processes.
Skills and Competencies:
- Extensive knowledge of aerospace domain, principles and practices.
- Knowledge of Aviation principles and instrument flying procedures
- Knowledge of Aeronautical Information Publications, Performance Based Navigation and cartographical maps
- Knowledge of Air Navigation routes and expertise in Flight Instrument Charts
- ARINC 424 standard understanding, practicing and guiding
- Must be Process oriented and have proven track record of handling internal and external audits
- Must have continuous improvement mindset with visible proven track record
- Must be dedicated and have ability to understand and support customer issues in very short span of time with proven track record.
- Knowledge of various Flight Management Systems and Honeywell navigation database formats is added advantage
- Exposure to all phases of Flight operations, Proficiency in Navigation, Flight Planning, and charts
- Must have ability to train, guide, coach, and mentor new and existing team members
- Demonstrate excellent technical leadership, communication skills and have flair for excelling in delivery commitments
- Ability to closely work with external and internal stakeholders, for example source suppliers, airline customers, Aero Tech Support, Flight Management Engineering and BMS
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in any discipline with relevant aerospace work experience
- 10+ years of experience in the aerospace domain
- Knowledge of aerospace database production processes
- Experience providing technical solutions to customer problems, tools, and processes
- Extensive knowledge of aerospace principles and practices
- Knowledge of aviation principles and instrument flying procedures
- Knowledge of Aeronautical Information Publications, Performance Based Navigation, and cartographical maps
- Knowledge of air navigation routes and flight instrument charts
- Understanding and practical experience with ARINC 424
- Experience handling internal and external audits
- Demonstrated continuous improvement experience
- Knowledge of Flight Management Systems and Honeywell navigation database formats
- Exposure to flight operations, navigation, flight planning, and charts
- Ability to train, guide, coach, and mentor team members
- Excellent technical leadership and communication skills
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, source suppliers, and airline customers
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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