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Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Land Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
The Ground Robotics team within Land Systems, Hunt Valley is seeking a passionate and skilled Systems Engineer to join our team to work on innovative products in our ground robotics domain. Our team is engaged in multiple cutting-edge development programs for defense applications, and we are looking for engineers who are eager to apply a diverse set of technologies and skills to create indispensable robotic solutions. This interdisciplinary role involves supporting the full life cycle development of our products, including new product development, product upgrades, payload design, integration and test, and fielding solutions for military and commercial customers. The ideal candidate will have experience in hardware and/or software integration, managing requirements derivation and allocation, and working successfully within a collaborative team environment. A strong desire to take ownership of design efforts to ensure the integration of new technology into our vehicles is essential.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering Design and Development:
- Support full-lifecycle engineering design and development activities on established and disruptive new products.
- Work across engineering disciplines to develop conceptual designs that solve complex problems.
- Perform requirements analysis and derivation to understand customer needs.
- Develop architecture models utilizing SysML to support requirements development and derivation.
- Use requirements management and test tools to decompose program requirements.
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE):
- Develop and maintain system models using MBSE methodologies and tools.
- Utilize SysML for creating and managing system architecture models.
- Integrate MBSE practices into the overall systems engineering process to improve design, analysis, and verification activities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure MBSE models accurately represent system requirements and design.
- Systems Integration and Testing:
- Perform hands-on integration of components and subsystems into Ground Vehicles.
- Develop integration test plans and procedures to verify product integration.
- Perform analysis of data extracted from testing.
- Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against their requirements.
- Collaboration and Communication:
- Prepare and present systems engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers at program milestone reviews.
- Interact daily with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and other engineers.
- Collaborate with others within the workgroup, with other departments, and with customers.
- Project Management and Technical Direction:
- Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based on evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.
- Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems.
- Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s)
- Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.