Systems Engineer III (Aerospace)

Location: Onsite in Lynnwood, Washington, United States; occasional domestic and international travel of up to 10%.

Salary: $142,900–$167,400 per year.

Company

Crane Aerospace & Electronics develops critical aerospace and defense systems and components, including power, sensing, and fluid solutions.

What you will do

• Develop, modernize, upgrade, and sustain aerospace and electronics products while meeting customer, cost, quality, reliability, schedule, and producibility requirements.
• Define, decompose, validate, verify, manage, and flow down product and process requirements across functional engineering groups.
• Contribute to system architecture and component definition from initial product research through system verification.
• Lead system development activities using recognized aerospace processes such as ARP4754 and support certification compliance for essential and critical aircraft control systems.
• Lead system safety analyses, including reliability predictions, FMEA, fault tree analysis, common mode analysis, and single event upset analysis under ARP4761.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, quality, and business teams through IPT activities, technical documentation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• BA or BS degree in an engineering discipline. A master's degree or PhD is preferred.
• Experience with system development following recognized processes such as ARP4754.
• Familiarity with DO-178, DO-254, and DO-160.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles, including requirements interpretation and writing, system architectures and designs, and requirements management, validation, and verification.
• Knowledge of development principles for transformer rectifier units, power conditioning units, DC-DC converters, magnetics, battery chargers, landing gear control and indication systems, door and slide control and indication systems, and tire pressure monitoring systems.
• Familiarity with multiphysics modeling and simulation, including Simulink, circuit analysis, power supply topologies, and the software development lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of requirements management tools such as DOORS is highly desirable.
• Strong written and verbal English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, and organizational communication.
• Where controlled data or information access is required, only US Persons will be considered. The role is subject to ITAR requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work in a standard office and manufacturing environment, with required safety equipment and possible exposure to noise, cold, confined spaces, dust, or fumes.
• Work includes computer-based activities, small to medium hand and power tools, approximately 90% sitting and 10% standing, and lifting or pushing up to 20 pounds.
• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance begins on the first day of the month.
• Fifteen days of paid time off accruing from the first day of employment and 12 paid holidays per year.
• 401(k) plan with company match and education reimbursement eligibility after six months.
• Employment is subject to a satisfactory background check; FAA-sensitive positions require participation in a random drug testing pool.