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This position collaborates closely with design engineering, customer support, reliability, manufacturing, and regulatory teams to embed maintainability requirements early in development and validate maintenance procedures before entry into service. The ideal candidate blends engineering expertise with deep understanding of aircraft operations, maintenance environments, and regulatory frameworks influencing aircraft supportability.Responsibilities\nLeads maintainability integration for major systems or subsystems.\nAnticipates long term maintenance impacts and drives design modifications early.\nPerforms trade studies and influences configuration decisions with engineering leadership.\nLeads MSG 3 analyses for complex systems.\nOptimizes maintenance intervals and drives alignment with reliability data.\nPartners with customer support to finalize task logic for maintenance planning docs.\nDevelops detailed maintainability models and advanced analyses.\nInterprets results to influence design optimization.\nCorrelates forecasted maintenance burden with operational data.\nLeads integrated maintenance demo events across systems.\nInterfaces with test, manufacturing, and prototype build teams to resolve issues.\nDrives corrective action implementation.\nLeads cross functional issue resolution for maintainability topics.\nEnsures maintenance procedures are user friendly and aligned with real world operator needs.\nLeads maintainability related certification work packages.\nInterfaces with DERs/DARs and prepares significant sections of certification documents.\nTravel of 25% may be required.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.\n4 - 7 years of experience in aircraft reliability engineering, maintainability engineering, or a related field, or equivalent A&P Mechanic experience.\nStrong technical background in aircraft systems, maintenance, and reliability engineering.\nFamiliarity with FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, MSG-3, RCM, ZSA.\nExperience supporting CFR (FAR) Part 135 operations.\nExperience with data analysis, root cause analysis, reliability testing, and continuous improvement methodologies.\nStrong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.\nAbility to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and lead teams through change.\nOur Benefits: Cirrus provides a range of exciting benefits, including:\nComprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, vision, dental, with additional dependent coverage options\nEmployer-Paid Coverages: Group term life, short- and long-term disability insurance\nFlexible Spending Accounts: FSA and HSA offerings with company contributions to HSA\nWell-being: Calm Health, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness incentives through medical provider\n 401(k) Plan: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after 90 days, with 100% vesting at 1 year of service\nPTO: Various PTO plans starting at 100 hours accrued within the first year\nAdditional Time off Benefits: Paid holidays, 2 weeks of Paid Parental leave, paid time for funeral leave and jury duty\nCareer Development: Tuition reimbursement program and professional growth opportunities\nExclusive Discounts: Cirrus Store, partner and marketplace discounts available\nCommunity & Engagement: Company and employee clubs at various locations\nThese benefits are designed to support your well-being, growth, and enjoyment at Cirrus!Other Duties Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required.\nCirrus is dedicated to a drug-free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.\nPay Range\nSalary Range: USD $100,513.49/Yr. - USD $150,770.23/Yr.Sign On Bonus","description_format":"text","description_chars":4469,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Growth opportunities","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Space & Aerospace","Aircraft Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T00:09:53Z"}],"liveness":{"score":81,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:48","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":150770,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cirrus-aircraft-maintainability-engineer-sr","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cirrus-aircraft-maintainability-engineer-sr.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T00:55:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1026,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3974,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}