Instrumentation Engineer

LOCATION: Redstone Arsenal, AL       

JOB STATUS: Full-time

CLEARANCE: Ability to Obtain Secret

TRAVEL: ~10%

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for an Instrumentation Engineer for the Redstone Test and Engineering Support (RTES) Contract, supporting the IDAP Division.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited school or a degree in an applicable technical specialty.
• 10+ years’ experience in engineering design, fabrication, research, and/or testing of instrumentation sensors and data collection.
• Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff. Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
• Familiar with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429 and aircraft transducers, experience with low-speed data systems and pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTDs, flowmeters, strain gages and high-speed data systems, accelerometers, high frequency pressure transducers.   
• Very familiar with engineering and mathematics applications software’s such as Maple MathCAD and MATLAB; compute and graph simple and complex mathematical expressions, discrete sequences and systems, audio and image processing and construction of simple Simulink models.
• Multisim or Electronic Workbench; design, simulate and analyze analog and digital circuits schematics
• Familiar with Creo schematics & Parametric with Windchill
• Familiar with electrical instruments such as function generators, digital multimeter and oscilloscope
• Experience using DIT-MCO and Cablescan electrical testing software.
• Experience with NI LabView Test Stand, DEWESOFT & Safran flight test products.
• Experience with SolidWorks Electrical & Mentor Graphics
• Experience in trouble shooting of electrical system down to component level.
• Familiar with Creo-Parametric and windchill.
• Familiar with RF Antenna & receiver setup for telemetry systems
• Proficient with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

(U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants)

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Experience in leading teams during technical design and providing strategic advice to project staff.
• Training less experienced engineers in technical skills, unit cohesion, and collaboration.
• Experience initiating and developing requirements for DoD project execution.
• Ability to read and create electrical schematics.
• Ability to create or modify Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) data streams.
• Working knowledge of programming numerical systems and how to interface with, and record data from, military aviation platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support ground and flight testing for a variety of aircraft modification programs.

• Collaborate with the Flight Test team to define each program’s instrumentation requirements, as well as modify/maintain the data acquisition system hardware and software, support instrumentation planning, installation, and calibration.

• Support procurement activities such as specification development, cost estimating, quote review, question and answer sessions, vendor documentation review, site acceptance review

• Assess, design, develop, integrate, and test system instrumentation components.

• Coordinate with flight test engineers and provide PDR, CDR of instrumentation system design parameters list.

• Work with techs to support hardware calibration in the lab, installation of instrumentation on the aircraft, and provide airworthiness a detailed report of system functionality.

• Develop controls and instrumentation documentation such as requirement definition, logic and flow diagrams, interface definition, software design documents, instrumentation, and device I/O documentation, etc.

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