Job Descriptions – Systems Design Engineering for Automatic Test Equipment (ATE)

Experience Bands 6–12 Years

Domain: Aerospace / Electronic Test

Advanced Systems Engineer – ATE / Electronic Test (6–12 Years)

Job Summary

We are seeking a Advanced Systems Design Engineer with 6–12 years of experience in ATE and aerospace electronic test systems. The candidate will be responsible for developing and managing system requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification approach, and design documentation for ATE solutions supporting functional test, structural test, ESS, qualification testing, production testing, development testing, deployment, MSA, electronic test strategy support, and test process compliance. The role requires strong technical understanding of system architecture, requirement flow-down, verification traceability, and cross-functional system integration in aerospace environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage system requirements, architecture definitions, operational concepts, and interface specifications for ATE systems supporting aerospace electronic products.
• Support end-to-end system engineering for functional test, structural test, ESS, qualification testing, production testing, and development testing applications.
• Prepare and review engineering documents including system requirements specifications, architecture descriptions, interface control documents, verification plans, compliance matrices, deployment plans, and release packages.
• Coordinate requirement flow-down to hardware, software, embedded, and mechanical teams and ensure design alignment with system intent and verification needs.
• Support system integration, subsystem compatibility reviews, fault isolation, issue resolution, and corrective action implementation during development and deployment phases.
• Participate in trade studies, requirement impact assessments, design reviews, readiness reviews, and configuration management activities.
• Drive traceability between customer requirements, derived requirements, design elements, verification methods, and evidence records.
• Support deployment planning, field issue analysis, system configuration baselines, and release readiness from a systems engineering perspective.
• Coordinate or support MSA activities including measurement chain definition, traceability support, calibration awareness, correlation analysis support, and measurement system performance evaluation.
• Contribute to product-level electronic test strategy by aligning system architecture with test coverage, maintainability, scalability, reliability, and production objectives.
• Ensure compliance with defined test processes, systems engineering standards, design governance, and aerospace documentation requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, , or a related discipline.
• 6–12 years of relevant experience in systems design engineering, ATE system development, or aerospace/defense test systems environments.
• Strong experience in requirements management, architecture definition, interface control, verification planning, and controlled documentation.
• Experience supporting functional, structural, ESS, qualification, production, and development test setups.
• Good understanding of system integration, design reviews, release management, issue tracking, and engineering change processes.
• Ability to coordinate across cross-functional teams and manage technical deliverables to schedule.
• Working knowledge of system reliability, measurement performance, and test process compliance expectations.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with requirements management and traceability tools, model-based or structured systems engineering practices, and controlled review processes.
• Familiarity with ATE ecosystems including hardware/software integration, instrumentation, PXI/VXI, DAQ, switching systems, and deployment architectures.
• Knowledge of MSA, GR&R, calibration awareness, uncertainty analysis, correlation, and test data quality concepts.
• Understanding of system safety, reliability, maintainability, serviceability, and traceability considerations in aerospace test systems.
• Exposure to PLM/PDM tools, issue management systems, configuration management, and aerospace compliance-controlled environments.
• Awareness of process compliance audits, documentation quality metrics, and customer-specific review requirements.

Key Competencies

• Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to balance technical depth with schedule and delivery priorities.
• Cross-functional coordination and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong documentation and review discipline.
• Execution ownership, compliance focus, and quality mindset.