📍 Tucson, AZ | Onsite | 9/80 Schedule Available
Build the Technology Behind the Future of FlightAI, computer vision, advanced imaging, and intelligent sensing are creating new possibilities for aviation. We’re looking for someone who wants to turn those possibilities into real technology.
Universal Avionics is looking for a Technical Manager, AI, Software & Systems Engineering to bring together highly specialized engineering teams across AI/ML, computer vision, image processing, sensing, software, and systems engineering.
This role sits where emerging technology meets engineering execution. You’ll connect the disciplines, guide technical decisions, solve complex integration challenges, and help move advanced ideas from concept toward real-world airborne products.
If you’re excited by what AI and intelligent systems could make possible in flight, this is where you get to help build it.
What You’ll Do- Drive technical direction across AI/ML, software, systems engineering, computer vision, imaging, and sensing
- Connect engineers and specialists across disciplines to solve complex technical problems
- Guide architecture, integration, and technical tradeoffs
- Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for future product capabilities
- Lead technical and design reviews
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and integration challenges early
- Connect AI, software, sensors, hardware, interfaces, and system requirements
- Partner with Program Management and engineering leadership to move technology from concept through development, verification, integration, and delivery
- Strong practical experience with AI/ML and modern intelligent systems
- Experience with computer vision, neural networks, image processing, sensing, video analytics, object detection, tracking, or related technologies
- Strong software and systems engineering knowledge
- Experience solving complex multidisciplinary technical problems
- Strong architecture, integration, and technical decision-making skills
- Experience leading technical teams, programs, products, or complex engineering initiatives
- Curiosity about emerging technology and a track record of learning and applying new capabilities
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
- Advanced technical degree preferred
- Aviation, avionics, aircraft systems, safety-critical product, or certification experience is a plus
How we build matters just as much as what we build.
✨We Grow Together
Invest in people. Share knowledge. Help each other grow.
✨Innovation
Stay curious. Challenge assumptions. Test, learn, and find better ways to solve problems.
✨Make It Happen
Take ownership. Move with urgency. Follow through.
✨Excellence
Hold a high standard for quality, accountability, and impact.
For more than 40 years, Universal Avionics has been solving hard problems in aviation.
Today, we’re building the next version of UA. We’re evolving how we work and how we use technology so we can move faster, innovate more boldly, and build what aviation needs next.
Benefits & PerksUniversal Avionics offers a competitive total rewards package designed to support our employees and their families, including:
Universal Avionics offers a competitive total rewards package designed to support our employees and their families, including:
Benefits begin on your first day as a full-time employee.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with safe harbor match within 60 days
- 9/80 work schedule option
- Every other Friday off
- Vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness and employee assistance programs
- And more
Universal Avionics’ products and technology are subject to U.S. export laws and regulations, including ITAR and EAR requirements. Employment eligibility may depend on applicable export-control requirements.
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Skills Required
- Experience leading complex technical programs or multidisciplinary product-development activities.
- Relevant experience with aviation, avionics, aircraft systems, or airborne product development.
- Strong systems thinking and understanding of aircraft-level integration, interfaces, operational constraints, and reliability.
- Practical technical knowledge across AI/ML, software, systems engineering, computer vision, or image processing.
- Familiarity with neural networks, object and motion detection, video analytics, classification, and tracking.
- Ability to evaluate technical approaches, guide architecture decisions, and lead specialists across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Ability to influence, facilitate decisions, and create accountability within a matrix organization.
- Ability to connect technical execution with program priorities, cost, and schedule commitments.
- Clear communication skills and ability to translate complex technical topics for engineering, program, and leadership stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant field.
- Knowledge of FAA certification processes or standards such as DO-178, DO-254, and ARP4754.
- Ability to work onsite in Tucson, Arizona.
What We Do
Universal Avionics, an Elbit Systems Company, is a leading manufacturer of innovative avionics systems offered as retrofit and forward-fit solutions for the largest diversification of aircraft types in the industry. Markets served include Business, Helicopter, Special Missions, Government / Military, Airline (regional / commercial) and OEM. To learn more about Universal Avionics, visit www.uasc.com/company/aboutus.
