Quest Defense

Full-stack Engineer

• Abstract and consolidate core functions into reusable libraries and frameworks
• Extract existing functionality from application code and refactor for shared use
• Design and implement an I/O framework supporting multiple protocols and data interfaces
• Define and maintain data dictionaries and I/O level specifications
• Collaborate with system architects to ensure ARINC-653 partitioning integrity
• Support certification activities through HLR/LLR documentation and DAL compliance
• Contribute to long-term strategy for scalable, maintainable software infrastructure

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Architect

• Lead development of SystemVerilog / UVM verification environments for FPGA designs
• Build and improve testbenches, agents, scoreboards, monitors, and sequences
• Define verification strategy, test plans, and coverage goals
• Drive functional, code, and assertion coverage closure
• Support both simulation and emulation workflows (Veloce or similar)
• Review and improve existing verification environments and processes
• Guide engineers on UVM best practices and debug complex issues
• Support DO-254 verification activities (requirements traceability, test evidence, audits)
• Work closely with design, systems, and program teams

FPGA Verification Engineer – UVM Architect

Engineer

• Build and maintain FPGA emulation environments using Siemens Veloce or similar platforms
• Port and optimize RTL and test environments from simulation into emulation
• Debug complex system-level issues that only appear at scale or in hardware-accelerated environments
• Improve emulation performance, compile times, and runtime efficiency
• Integrate UVM-based environments into emulation workflows (not building UVM from scratch, but making it work in emulation)
• Support validation of high-speed interfaces and system-level data flows
• Collaborate with RTL, verification, and systems teams to resolve design and integration issues
• Enable full-chip and subsystem validation that cannot be achieved in simulation alone
• Support DO-254 verification activities, including traceability and test evidence where needed
• Help define best practices for emulation workflows across programs

FPGA Emulation Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

• Design electrical enclosures, control cabinets, and chassis systems
• Create 2D and 3D CAD models and drawing packages (AutoCAD, Inventor, or similar)
• Support panel layout, connector placement, and cable routing design
• Interpret and work from electrical schematics and system requirements
• Ensure designs meet EMC, seismic, and environmental standards
• Support integration, testing, and validation of hardware designs
• Document designs and support design reviews and verification activities
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to define scope and resolve issues

Mechanical Design Engineer – Enclosures & Integration

• Design, implement, train, and refine AI/ML models and decision logic for adaptive or generative software applications.
• Develop software frameworks, runtime components, APIs, and integration layers to connect AI/ML capabilities with larger system architectures.
• Build and maintain training workflows, evaluation harnesses, preprocessing pipelines, and dataset tooling for simulated and operationally relevant environments.
• Support model evaluation against technical performance metrics and help analyze results from simulation and test environments.
• Containerize software components and prepare runtime packages for automated test and evaluation execution.
• Contribute to scalable software architecture, configuration management, experiment tracking, and code quality practices.
• Refactor and harden software for production-quality use, including modular design, logging, error handling, documentation, and test coverage.
• Support technical reviews, development planning, integration activities, and customer-facing engineering discussions as needed.
• Produce technical documentation, including architecture overviews, setup instructions, interface descriptions, deployment guidance, and lessons learned.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, including AI/ML engineers, software developers, communications or signal-processing specialists, system architects, and test teams.

AI/ML Software Engineer

• Developing controls/monitoring software, low-level requirements-based tests to generate full-coverage LDRA verification procedures.
• Analyzing and dispositioning structural coverage holes.
• Coordinating with the customer to ensure full test coverage, correct expected results, and communication/disposition of test findings.
• Executing the tests in the LDRA test setup on both simulated and on-target environments.
• Reviewing test results and test time history data during test development, regression runs, and to help debug software issues.
• Identifying findings and reporting them to the customer when test outcomes do not align with requirements or with expected results.
• Authoring and participating in formal reviews of test cases, procedures, and results.

Software Verification and Validation Engineer

• Use computational tools to perform thermal analysis for gas turbine components and turbomachinery
• Lead the effort in development of geometry and mesh for analysis models along with the necessary model setup and analysis of those models
• Post-process and prepare high-quality presentations of results · Prepare and present reports on findings on formal technical reviews
• Create, support and maintain secondary airflow system models and whole engine models
• Develop and participate in root cause and/or risk failure mode and error analysis (FMEA) for gas turbine engines

Thermal & CFD Engineer – Gas Turbines

• Use computational tools to perform thermal and/or CFD analysis for gas turbine components and turbomachinery
• Lead the effort in development of geometry and mesh for analysis models along with the necessary model setup and analysis of those models
• Post-process and prepare high-quality presentations of results
• Prepare and present reports on findings on formal technical reviews
• Create, support and maintain secondary airflow system models and whole engine models
• Develop and participate in root cause and/or risk failure mode and error analysis (FMEA) for gas turbine engines
• Support test and fielded hardware verification and validation efforts
• This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and employee will also perform other tasks as assigned.

Conjugate Heat Transfer Engineer

• Perform structural/stress analysis using a combination of hand calculations and finite element analysis
• Perform structural dynamic analysis, including rotor dynamics, torsional system dynamic analysis, and environmental equivalence.
• Work with designers to incorporate analysis findings, influence load paths, and optimize structural designs for strength, weight, and manufacturability.
• Analyzing failure modes, supporting test programs, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and customer requirements
• Support structural testing, ensuring designs meet regulatory standards, and communicating findings to cross-functional teams.
• Provide technical guidance on design concepts (risk vs. cost vs. performance)
• Compile documentation of stress analysis to support the release of engineering drawings and documents
• Support test execution and analyze test results to validate and verify that designs meet requirements and specifications
• Effectively manage multiple priorities.

Senior Structural Aerospace Engineer

• Perform structural/stress analysis using a combination of hand calculations and finite element analysis
• Perform structural dynamic analysis, including rotor dynamics, torsional system dynamic analysis, and environmental equivalence.
• Work with designers to incorporate analysis findings, influence load paths, and optimize structural designs for strength, weight, and manufacturability.
• Analyzing failure modes, supporting test programs, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and customer requirements
• Support structural testing, ensuring designs meet regulatory standards, and communicating findings to cross-functional teams.
• Provide technical guidance on design concepts (risk vs. cost vs. performance)
• Compile documentation of stress analysis to support the release of engineering drawings and documents
• Support test execution and analyze test results to validate and verify that designs meet requirements and specifications

Structural Aerospace Engineer

Systems Engineer

• SysML Modeling in MagicDraw/Cameo
• Executing plans for system development and verification
• Generating system functional requirements
• Developing architecture models
• Validating and verifying system requirements
• Troubleshooting and resolving integration/verification issues
• Modelling interface controls