Senior Automated Flight Control Systems Engineer - Greensboro, United States - American Honda Motor

Description

General Summary:

The Control Systems Engineer – supports the development, integration, verification and certification of electronic Control Systems including Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS), Auto-Throttle (AT), Emergency Auto-Land (EAL), etc.; supports the analytical control system design, analysis and associated simulation. This position is for a Control System Cognizant Engineer who will be responsible for the Control Systems life cycle.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Design, development and certification of Control Systems, and more specifically AFCS including: architecture development, system requirements development, system integration, system safety, system qualification, system integration testing (hardware-in–the-loop) and system issues resolution.
2. Analytical design and development of closed loop Control Systems including: control topology/architecture and control law structure development, control system gain design and analysis, linear and nonlinear simulation infrastructure development to support control system design.
3. Defines Control Systems integration, verification and validation (V&V) testing requirements, test procedures and supports laboratory, ground test and flight test activity as required.
4. Execution of Automatic Flight Control System integration, Safety-Of-Flight, and certification testing.
5. Defines and reviews control systems requirements, ICDs, electrical drawings, test plans, system safety documentation and system performance analysis.
6. Resolves problems from the development, certification, production, and field support activities.
7. Review System Safety documents, including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), System Safety Assessment (SSA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
8. Interface with Avionics Supplier System Engineers, DERs and Flight Test to support integration activities.
9. Assist Customer Support and Production as needed