Virtual Avionics Systems Software Engineer I (On-site)

at  Collins Aerospace

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 months or less of relevant professional work experience (excluding internships)
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract
  Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.
  Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

POSITION ROLE TYPE:

Onsite
The Collins Aerospace, Virtual Avionics Engineering (VAE) team in Cedar Rapids, IA is expanding due to increased demand for simulation training software that is derived from real-time aircraft operational flight programs and extended with ARINC-610 simulation features and customer driven requirements.
The retargeted simulation software models aircraft systems from low level data bus flows to high level peer to peer subsystem communication and is built on top of proprietary graphics drawing libraries and runtime executives. Resulting in high fidelity, optimized software-hardware solutions that range in applications from Windows desktop and virtual reality trainers to certified full-flight simulators.
This position develops and supports training devices and software from moderate to high complexity by leveraging the latest in PC high-performance CPU-GPU computing, gaming and display technologies for use in training and familiarizing flight crews and ground crews in the use of Collins avionics systems deployed in commercial airspace and military theaters.
Successful candidates should embrace competing priorities and technical challenges. We are looking for motivated individuals with a keen desire to create innovative solutions and contribute with reasonable oversight and sound judgement while self-learning, collaborating, and mentoring.
This is fast-paced, dynamic development that requires ownership, attention to detail, and teamwork skills that contribute to a positive and productive work environment for teammates and customers. Engineering methodology is a hybrid of Spiral development and Agile planning and execution.
We work directly with our customers to integrate and support our software in their training systems. Both domestic and international travel to customer sites and industry demonstrations may be needed.

The VAE team also builds lower level training devices by integrating our rehosted avionics software with Collins proprietary simulation environments and COTS equipment, see the following links for examples:

• Collins Virtual Avionics Procedure Trainer (VAPT)
• Collins Virtual Avionics Trainer (VAT)
• Collins HUD Virtual Reality Trainer
• Collins Training Products Site

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Basic systems software development on a distributed engineering team that supports customers & occasionally travels.
• Avionics Simulation Software Modeling & Development in MS Windows Visual Studio & Eclipse with C/C++/C#, Python & Matlab.
• Building & Debugging - real-time, multi-threaded applications, endian interoperability, distributed data marshalling.
• Troubleshooting - hardware-software systems integration, shared memory, Ethernet and Arinc communication.
• Effective written and spoken communication skills to aid in planning, measuring and progress reporting.
• Contribute to all phases of systems-software life cycle development, deployment & support.