Job location: Bangalore, India

About Acron Aviation

Acron Aviation is an agile commercial aviation partner with a long heritage of providing established, industry-certified solutions, as well as future-focused, data-driven innovations. With customers across the globe our employees are committed to the company mission of innovating to create safer skies. For more information visit acronaviation.com

About This Role

We are seeking an experienced Firmware Engineer and DO-254 Complex Electronic Hardware expert to join our surveillance hardware product development team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, verifying, and maintaining safety-critical firmware for avionics and embedded systems for TCAS and transponder applications in compliance with DO-254 standards.

You will work closely with hardware engineers, system architects, and certification authorities to ensure robust design assurance processes are followed throughout the product lifecycle. Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of FPGA/ASIC development, VHDL/Verilog, and requirements-based verification, with a proven design history in developing firmware for FAA/EASA-certified aerospace systems.

You will be involved with multidisciplinary project teams involving mechanical, electrical digital/analog, RF, firmware, and software engineering in planning, designing, prototyping, and testing of avionics systems. You will additionally be responsible for mentorship of junior engineers, as well as ensuring the Surveillance product line follows industry best-practices for product development. Design focus will include surveillance avionics for Air Transport, as well as General Aviation and emerging platforms such as Urban Air Mobility (UAM) eVTOL aircraft.

Essential Functions

• Experience with Xilinx and Microchip FPGAs along with associated tools (ISE, Vivado, Libero)
• Experience with simulation tools (Active HDL/QuestaSim)
• Must be knowledgeable in VHDL and/or Verilog RTL coding
• Experience certifying DO-254 Airborne Electronic Hardware development lifecycle
• Experience with requirements-based verification
• Generate design documents including HRDs, HDDs, and HCIAs. Generate certification documents such as PHACs.
• Participate in the proposal process for programs with EE requirements by estimating tasks, identifying risk and planning development.
• Effectively communicate across multiple technical teams.
• Communicate directly with customers, in person or virtually, to understand their problems and formulate actionable solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and minimum 15 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience in an engineering discipline with systems engineering principles, including requirements definition, requirements verification, design reviews and documentation, integration, test and demonstration.
• Hands on experience designing and developing avionics products, RF, or sensor systems.
• Proven design experience implementing value engineering and lean practices
• Proven design experience implementing automation and AI to reduce cost and cycle time
  
  

Preferred Additional Skills

• Experience with and an understanding of aerospace systems, especially in the development of integrated hardware/software products
• Exposure to Model-Based Systems Engineering
• Awareness of electrical development requirements as they impact firmware and FPGA design
• Experience with RTOS integration and understanding of its implications on hardware design
• Practical understanding of the complexities of RF design, especially in L-band frequency range and application of RF FPGA principles
• Excellent people skills, with experience leading and collaborating in a multi-disciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team environment.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, & presentation)
• Knowledge of DO-160 and DO-178
• Experience with Design to Cost and Design for Manufacturability
• Experience effectively supporting production and test of products in a different geographic location
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple programs and responsibilities simultaneously
• Ability to operate and identify appropriate path forward with minimal oversight