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Within Avionics, the Surveillance product line develops and sustains systems that enable aircraft awareness, collision avoidance, and airspace interoperability. Our portfolio includes TCAS, Mode S transponders, ADS-B, and integrated surveillance solutions deployed across commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms. This work is performed in highly regulated environments and demands deep expertise across systems, hardware, software, and RF throughout the full product lifecycle.\nAs Senior Systems Engineering Manager for avionics, you will lead the organization responsible for translating customer and business needs into safe, certifiable, and supportable aircraft systems. You will guide systems architecture, requirements, interfaces, safety, integration, verification, and certification across the product lifecycle for commercial, military, rotorcraft, and emerging air mobility platforms.\nYou will shape systems engineering strategy, workforce capability, processes, tools, and execution priorities. Working across hardware, software, program management, product management, quality, manufacturing, airworthiness, customers, and regulatory authorities, you will ensure technical integrity while delivering to cost, schedule, quality, and performance commitments.\nResponsibilities:\nLead and develop a multidisciplinary systems engineering team, including systems architects, requirements engineers, integration and verification engineers, and technical leaders.\nBuild a high-performing engineering culture through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, workforce planning, performance management, and employee engagement.\nOwn systems engineering execution for new product development, product enhancements, certification programs, and sustaining engineering across the full lifecycle.\nProvide technical oversight of system architectures, requirements decomposition, interface definitions, trade studies, design reviews, integration, verification, validation, and certification evidence.\nEnsure effective application of SAE ARP4754A and ARP4761A principles, including development assurance, functional hazard assessment, system safety assessment, and requirements-based verification.\nEstablish and improve requirements management, configuration control, traceability, review, and change-control practices using tools such as IBM Engineering DOORS, Jama Connect, or equivalent platforms.\nAdvance model-based systems engineering practices using SysML and architecture tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler or equivalent solutions.\nPartner with hardware and software leaders to align system requirements and assurance activities with RTCA DO-178C, DO-254, DO-160, and applicable FAA, EASA, and customer expectations.\nDrive system integration and verification planning, including test strategy, test readiness, laboratory and aircraft integration, anomaly resolution, and objective evidence closure.\nPartner with senior leaders, program managers, customers, suppliers, and functional stakeholders to resolve technical risk and deliver successful program outcomes.\nSupport proposals, product roadmaps, basis-of-estimate development, technical planning, and customer or regulatory technical engagements.\nOwn systems engineering process health, metrics, lessons learned, and continuous improvement, balancing rigor with efficient program execution.\nUse AI-enabled engineering workflows responsibly to improve requirements quality, traceability, review efficiency, knowledge reuse, and team productivity.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer, Software, Mechanical, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.\n12+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, avionics, defense, or another safety-critical industry.\n5+ years of engineering leadership or management experience, including responsibility for direct reports and technical leaders.\nDemonstrated success leading complex avionics systems development through requirements, design, integration, verification, certification, production, and field support.\nStrong working knowledge of systems engineering methods, requirements management, interface control, verification and validation, and technical risk management.\nExperience with aircraft or avionics certification and development assurance practices, including SAE ARP4754A and system safety processes aligned with ARP4761 or equivalent.\nA people-first leadership record that includes talent development, coaching, performance management, organizational planning, and building inclusive, accountable teams.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to lead through influence in a matrixed, multi-site organization.\nAdditional Qualifications:\nMaster's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Management, or an MBA.\nCommercial or military avionics product development experience, particularly with 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