Principal Systems Engineer

Job summary

AALTO’s Zephyr is a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) and is the only one of its kind to have demonstrated day/night longevity in the stratosphere. Providing a persistent and adaptable solution, unlike other unmanned aircraft. Its persistence enables a capability of flying continuously for months at a time, at around 70,000 feet, above weather and conventional air traffic.

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Qualifications

• as well as operating a global fleet of carbon neutral HAPS platforms – powered by sunlight.
• Job Purpose:
• As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design, development, and implementation of the Zephyr system.
• Leveraging your extensive experience and expertise, you will lead and contribute to complex systems engineering projects, ensuring they meet performance, safety, and regulatory standards.
• You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful implementation, meeting project objectives, and adhering to safety and regulatory
• Spearhead the design process, including conceptualization, specifications, and system architecture, taking into account aerodynamics and mech integration, avionics HW & SW, communication, and payload integration.
• Operational Support: Monitor and analyse system performance.
• Lead real-time anomaly resolution and recovery activities to ensure continuous operation.
• System Design Review: Conduct design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR …).
• Management: elicitation, analysis, traceability, prioritisation, V&V, baseline and maintenance.
• Testing and Validation: Develop and manage extensive testing protocols to validate the integrated systems' performance, including system-level testing, and mission simulation.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all activities comply with PART 21 regulations, which cover the certification and airworthiness

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Manage integration projects from initiation to completion, overseeing budget, timeline, and resource allocation to deliver successful outcomes.
• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance, mentoring and inspiring a diverse team of engineers, fostering collaboration, creativity and professional growth.
• Make decisions on technical issues and ensure the team adheres to best practices in systems engineering.
• No direct Line reports.
• Compliance Verification: As a CVE, independently verify the compliance of design solutions with applicable regulations.
• This includes approving all compliance documents, including test programs and data necessary for the verification of compliance with applicable CS and environmental protection

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