Avionics Engineer (Telemetry) - Level II / Senior

About the Role The Avionics Engineer will design, integrate, test, and maintain Stratolaunch's hypersonic avionics with a focus on Telemetry for the Mach 5+ Talon testbeds. This role collaborates with system owners and test ranges to ensure telemetry, instrumentation, and network assets meet mission requirements. What You'll Do

• Contribute to instrumentation, network, & telemetry (data) system requirements development, architecture design, testing, & operation for local and extended range missions.
• Support flight operations by ensuring data system assets are prepared for flight test.
• Support selection of and harness design for sensors, data acquisition units, computers, network switches, and other equipment.
• Manage and configure the aircraft instrumentation system to provide real-time data for mission monitoring and post-flight analysis.
• Develop and maintain software tools, including configuration management, simulation, deployment, and analysis tools.
• Determine, document, and manage subsystem requirements for each new configuration.
• Develop and support instrumentation, network, & telemetry tests as required.
• Support integration testing such as power checks, sensor calibration, and equipment checkout.
• Collaborate with design engineers, network engineers, and technicians to accomplish goals.
• Prepare data system material for design reviews, flight readiness reviews, and post-operation reviews.
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments. What We're Looking For
• Experience in Telemetry, Instrumentation, or Network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
• Experience with Ethernet networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, multicasting, etc.
• Experience integrating data acquisition instrumentation (Analog, discrete, and digital protocols such as ARINC 429) from distributed systems with mission control software.
• Knowledgeable with RF devices such as transmitters, receivers, encoders/decoders, or similar.
• Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers.
• Experience writing system requirements; excellent written & verbal communication.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the SECRET or above level.
• Programming skills in at least one language (C/C++/C#, Python); familiarity with CI toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo; experience with Git; MS Office.
• Preferred: experience with complex payloads, hypersonic systems, and flight test instrumentation; etc. Nice to Have
• Experience with complex payload and/or guided systems.
• Flight test program instrumentation system experience.
• Harness design and manufacturing for aircraft.
• Aircraft/launch vehicle development.
• RF telemetry end-to-end testing; IRIG 106 CH4/CH10/CH7 standards.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance; hands-on aircraft build, piloting, flight test.
• Databases (relational, document, time-series) and data acquisition DUs from Curtiss-Wright or Safran; JAMA/Doors; Mission Control Room console experience. Compensation & Benefits
• Salary: Level II: $101,100 – $146,500/year; Sr: $120,500 – $158,000/year.
• Benefits: Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription), paid maternity/ parental leave, 50% 401(k) match up to $11,500, tuition reimbursement, 9/80 schedule.