Flight Simulator Hardware Engineer

We have an outstanding Contract position for a Flight Simulator Hardware Engineer to join a leading Company located in the Orlando, FL surrounding area.

**US Citizenship is required.**

The hired engineer will be a Hardware Engineer on a development team that delivers an FAA Level D Full Flight Simulator for our customer.

Responsibilities:

• Complete hardware design and development activities for power and control systems, motion platform integration, visual display systems, avionics interfaces, and ancillary equipment.
• Manage end-to-end integration of the new simulator hardware with the existing building infrastructure, including HVAC, electrical distribution, grounding, and fire and smoke monitoring systems.
• Lead other Hardware Engineers who synchronize engineering, procurement, production planning, manufacturing, and suppliersto ensure design is completed as scheduled.
• Develop innovative solutions to a range of complex problems that are consistent with the program objectives.

Basic Hiring Criteria:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or related field.
• Experience indeveloping flight simulationhardware solutions.
• Active development of new mechanical design engineering principles and full demonstrated knowledge of industry practices and related disciplines.
• Issuing formal design checkingapprovals or non-conformance reports throughthe PLM tool.
• Developing and generating CREO layouts and detailed drawings for ICDs, components, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and integration test articles.
• Developing and generating HW architectural layouts for system and lower-level interfaces between systems and subsystems.
• Deriving Hardware and sub-tier requirements from customer requirements.
• Building BOMs, creating parts, assemblies, and design documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to support cross-functional teams through major technical reviews throughout the acquisition lifecycle (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR).
• Experience applying Hardware Engineering processes in an Agile environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Windchill, Creo, and/or Catia, Zuken, and Cameo.
• Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in accordance with ASME Y14.5 anddemonstrated ability to perform complex system-level tolerance analysis.
• Knowledge of generating hardware architecture, high-level interconnects, and deriving requirements from customer and system-level flowdowns.
• Prior experience in the development, integration, and deployment offlight training systems.
• Leveraged Agile tenets in the execution of the development of software-intensive systems, inclusive ofdriving development of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware, and Test Engineering work products.
• Experience adapting hardware designs to existing climate control systems, ensuring temperature/humidity stability for avionics and motion platforms.
• Experience interfacing with the facility's existing fire detection and suppression infrastructure.
• Product design experience in the context of modular open systems architectures (e.g., SOA).
• Experience with Rotary and/or Fixed Wing Aircraft.
• Experience with full motion simulators.