Systems Engineer – Aviation Weather, NAS Integration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the FAA BNATCS program and the enhancement of aviation weather capabilities vital to the National Airspace System.

• Act as an engineering integration liaison among aviation weather systems, engineering teams, FAA stakeholders, subcontractors, and implementation partners.

• Contribute to the engineering execution of the Alaska Weather Needs Package.

• Modernize and integrate aviation weather observation systems, including AWOS, VWOS, and WCAM.

• Analyze and manage system interfaces, dependencies, and data flows between weather observation systems and interconnected NAS systems.

• Support the development, analysis, traceability, and verification of requirements.

• Identify technical challenges and coordinate their resolution with engineering organizations.

• Assist in technical reviews, program briefings, status updates, and communications with stakeholders.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities and create technical products, analyses, drawings, reports, and implementation packages.

• Create and maintain integrated project schedules, action-item trackers, risk registers, and schedules for technical deliverables.

• Monitor technical issues, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions until resolution.

• Ensure traceability from requirements and site survey findings to recommendations, decisions, and final deliverables.

• Facilitate technical discussions and working sessions with FAA representatives, engineering teams, subcontractors, installation partners, and internal organizations.

• Prepare, conduct quality reviews, and deliver technical reports, engineering recommendations, requirements documentation, and implementation packages.

• Aid in implementation strategies, migration planning, and technical transition activities.

• Suggest process enhancements for engineering execution, documentation quality, and schedule performance.

• Support AWOS projects through pre-site surveys, site investigations, engineering drawings, and technical transmittals.

• Coordinate AWOS engineering packages in line with FAA siting requirements, Airport Layout Plans, and modular scalability standards.

• Oversee engineering design deliverables such as maps, site plans, drawings, grading and storm drainage plans, and equipment pad designs.

• Manage AWOS-C equipment and site-specific implementation requirements.

• Assist in procurement planning by identifying long-lead materials, equipment dependencies, and implementation constraints.

• Facilitate technical discussions and support decision-making across internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Support engineering activities from planning and design through to implementation and transition.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

• At least 12 years of experience with a BS/BA; 10 years with an MS/MA; 7 years with a Ph.D.; 14 years with an AS; or 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• Proven experience managing complex technical projects in engineering, infrastructure modernization, telecommunications, aviation systems, or similar mission-critical environments.

• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams across various organizations.

• Proficient in managing technical schedules, risks, action items, deliverables, and customer communications.

• Experienced in developing engineering documentation, technical reports, implementation plans, requirements packages, or acquisition documentation.

• Strong organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Capability to manage multiple concurrent priorities in dynamic and complex environments.

• Experience working directly with Government clients and senior leadership.

• Previous experience supporting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation (DOT), National Airspace System (NAS), or other aviation modernization programs.

• Familiarity with aviation weather systems, including AWOS, ASOS, VWOS, WCAM, weather sensors, environmental monitoring systems, or related airport infrastructure.

• Understanding of FAA siting requirements, Airport Layout Plans (ALP), NAS interface standards, data flows, and systems integration requirements.

• Experience coordinating remote field site surveys, engineering assessments, installation activities, or site readiness efforts.

• Knowledge of airport communications, networking, power infrastructure, environmental systems, and other site readiness factors.

• Familiarity with FAA engineering, quality assurance, configuration management, safety, and acquisition processes.

• Experience supporting system implementation, testing, integration, verification, validation, or operational transition.

• Proficiency in using Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project management and collaboration tools.

• Agile experience is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Employee assistance program (EAP).

• Parental leave.

• 401(k).

• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation.

• Company-paid holidays.

• Potential eligibility for overtime.

• Potential eligibility for shift differential.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus.