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Avionic Systems V&V Engineer

Burlington, Vermont, United States

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

We are seeking a Systems Engineer with strong V&V verification experience to support the development, certification, and verification of aircraft systems for electric aviation platforms. This role sits at the intersection of systems engineering, safety, certification, and V&V verification, with hands-on involvement across requirements definition,  modeling, testing, and compliance demonstration at the Component, System, and Aircraft levels.

The ideal candidate is deeply comfortable working in a certification-driven environment, understands the criticality of clear, traceable requirements, and can collaborate effectively with certification engineers, DERs, design engineers, test teams, and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

Systems Engineering & Requirements

    • Develop, manage, and validate aircraft-, system-, and component-level requirements
    • Generate and maintain requirements aligned with customer, regulatory, and certification needs
    • Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements, verification methods, and compliance evidence
    • Manage requirements within an ALM environment (e.g., Polarion)
    • Provide critical design feedback related to safety, requirements completeness, and verification readiness

Safety & Certification

    • Apply SAE ARP4754A and ARP4761 processes throughout the system lifecycle
    • Support and contribute to Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and FMEA
    • Participate in certification planning and compliance demonstrations
    • Interface with certification engineers and DERs to support FAA approval activities
    • Support certification programs under Part 23 / 27 / 33, including electric propulsion systems

Verification & Validation

    • Author, execute, and maintain verification plans, procedures, and test reports
    • Define and execute requirements-based test strategies at the appropriate level (Component, System, Aircraft)
    • Coordinate and execute lab, integration, and system-level tests
    • Verify systems such as:
      • Vibrations, airframe, fuselage
      • Interiors
      • Doors & Transparencies
      • Cabin Equipment
      • Environmental Control Systems
      • Interior Lighting
      • Smoke Detection Systems
      • etc
    • Ensure verification activities align with overall certification schedules
    • Track and report verification status keeping traceability to support program management decisions

Modeling, Analysis & Test Support

    • Perform system behavior modeling to support validation activities
    • Support test automation and data analysis where applicable
    • Ensure verification deliverables meet certification expectations

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Software Engineering, or related field
  • 10+ years (up to 15+ preferred) experience on Part 23 or 27 aircraft or rotorcraft programs
  • Strong working knowledge of:
    • SAE ARP4754A
    • SAE ARP4761
    • FAA Order 8110.4C
    • RTCA DO-160G, DO-331, DO-178C
  • Experience with ARP4754A-based verification
  • Experience with requirements-based testing and traceability audits
  • Proficiency with ALM and verification tools (Polarion, JIRA, Confluence)
  • Experience with solid modeling tools (Onshape, SolidWorks, CATIA, or equivalent)
  • Comfortable working in a cross-functional, certification-focused environment
  • Ability to work fully onsite in Burlington, VT.

Preferred / Above-and-Beyond Qualifications

  • Experience with:
    • Part 23 Amendment 64
    • ASTM F3338
    • Part 33 certification or electric propulsion systems
  • Familiarity with:
    • Polarion ALM
    • CATIA
    • ANSYS
    • Mil-HDBK-217 / Mil-HDBK-21
    • Reliability tools (PTC Windchill, Isograph, Relyence)
  • Test and automation experience using:
    • LabVIEW
    • Python or other test automation frameworks
  • Background in aerospace verification & validation
  • Prior experience in a certifying environment (Part 23, 25, 27, 29, or DO-based programs EASA or FAA)

Tools & Work Environment

  • Google G-Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Calendar, etc.)
  • Slack and collaborative engineering workflows
  • ALM-driven, traceability-heavy certification environment

 

Salary: $120,000 - $130,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 

Note: Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.

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