Instrumentation Engineer

Company:	Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (4)
Job Location(s):	Patuxent River
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	Immediate
Starting Salary Range:	$73,100 - $113,007
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Engineering - General, Communications, Engineering - Aerospace

Position Description

Instrumentation Engineer Skill Set

Translate/Communicate customer instrumentation requirements into data acquisition system design
Ability to work with other engineering disciplines to clarify requirements, obtain needed information (i.e. ICD’s, Spec Sheets etc.), obtain flight clearances etc.
Ability to safely integrate Instrumentation system into production aircraft (i.e. power, avionics signals etc.). Experience with military aircraft desired
Proficiency in Autocad drawing package
Proficiency in use of test equipment (i.e. O’Scopes, Spectrum Analyzer, Function Generators, Simulators etc.)
Experience in design of Power Distribution Units (PDU) for complex instrumentation systems.
Experience in design and integration of complex instrumentation systems to measure the following:
- Stress & Strain measurements
- Shock & Vibration measurements
- Temperature measurements
- Position measurements (i.e. aircraft surfaces, landing gear etc.)
- Production aircraft signals
- Noise measurements
- Pressure measurements
- MIL-STD-1553 Bus
- ARINC 429 Bus
- Fire Wire (IEEE 1394)
- RS-422
- Ethernet
- Fiber Channel
- Cockpit Video
- High Speed Weapon Separation Video
Experience in merging multiple instrumentation data sources into high speed multiplexers.
Experience in performing end to end calibrations of instrumentation sensors on aircraft.
Experience in set-up and programming software to configure data acquisition hardware.
Experience in set-up and programming of data processing software for system validation testing.
Experience with instrumentation system uncertainty analysis.
Experience managing high pressure/visibility instrumentation projects.
Experience in the design & setup of telemetry systems.
Experience with integration of high volume onboard solid state recorders.