Senior Aviation Systems Engineer

Overview

Garmin International seeks Senior Aviation Systems Engineer (Olathe, KS; Multiple positions)

Essential Functions

• Serves in a technical leadership capacity to identify, document, and coordinate technical aspects of new interfaces / functionality in order to support market-driven or specific customer requirements for implementations that can be scalable across multiple products or product lines.
• Creates and reviews system requirements, supporting rationale, system architectures, and technical description documentation for new products or functions.
• Leads coordination efforts for collaborative requirement allocation and verification planning activities.
• Performs complete trade-off analysis for new products and functions, following requirements standards and best-practices.
• Provides technical input to product concepts and/or development plans, and contributes to technical definition of new product/feature ideas for discussion in periodic roadmap reviews with leadership.
• Performs technical market research and analysis in support of product definition and/or business development initiatives.
• Generates, executes, and/or reviews bench test plans/procedures for new products/features to validate system functionality against customer expectations and/or verify system requirements, clearly documenting testing performed with clear and sufficient details about observed issues and feedback to development teams to ensure solutions are designed correctly.
• Troubleshoots complex bench, simulator, and/or field issues, including identifying technical root cause and suggesting correction action for given problems using sound problem solving techniques.
• Establishes program/project-specific execution plans for system-level processes and roadmap initiatives, including initial discussions with customers.
• Analyzes system design, performance, safety, and/or security for new products/features in accordance with applicable processes/procedures.
• Improves and/or creates system-level processes, best practices, and/or tools for systems engineering, development assurance, and/or cybersecurity in accordance with regulations and industry standards.
• Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques.
• Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced Aviation Systems Engineers (1 & 2).
• Works collaboratively and professionally in a team environment with other Garmin associates to achieve goals.
• Applies a sense of urgency, commitment, and focus on the right priorities in developing solutions in a timely fashion.
• Exemplifies Garmin's Mission, Vision, Values, and Quality Policy and proactively works to improve Garmin's image and culture. Full time remote work is not available.

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Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3 years of relevant experience in the aviation systems environment.
• Developing new signal processing algorithms for moving or ground platform radar applications.
• Researching novel techniques to improve radar performance.
• Simulating or modeling radar signals and systems, including signal-environment interaction.
• Processing and analyzing data collected using moving or ground platforms radar.
• Improving moving or ground platforms radar data quality.
• Signal processing experience using complex IQ data.
• Experience with I-D, 2-D filter designs, windowing techniques, decimation and interpolation methods and applications.
• Strong background in statistics, including signal estimation and probability theory.
• Understanding of radar theory, Doppler or non-Doppler radar signals, radar waveforms.
• Adaptive radar signal processing methods.
• In lieu of a Master's plus three years of experience, a Bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience in the requirements noted above is acceptable.

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits