SkyGrid

Solutions Engineer

• Lead an internal and public-facing ConOps or white paper initiative.
• Support Product and Systems Engineering teams with definition of product roadmap and engineering requirements.
• Identify region-specific challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of third-party traffic management services.
• Support the identification of requirements for integrating novel aircraft operations (including Advanced Air Mobility) into diverse airspace environments worldwide.
• Lead the development of technical documentation that articulates the role and necessity of ground-based systems in supporting these operations.
• Monitor and analyze evolving concepts of operation for Advanced Air Mobility proposed by aviation regulators worldwide.
• Work with Product and Systems Engineers to derive and document engineering requirements for a ground-based system that provides traffic management and data services to emerging operations.
• Support refinement of SkyGrid’s product strategy based on airspace integration research.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of human factors and autonomy specialists to support technology development from concept to prototype.
• Report to the Airspace Integration Manager within SkyGrid’s Research and Development (R&D) organization.

Airspace Integration Engineer III

Systems Engineer

• Lead and execute on critical systems engineering activities for one or more SkyGrid systems through Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews.
• Support the development of the System/Subsystem Design Description documents and update System designs and architectures accordingly in support of Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews.
• Coordinate activities with other team members and support junior staff.
• Advance and support system development activities including planning, requirements, design, implementation, verification, and validation.
• Support compliance in accordance with ARP4754A development practices, including the creation of related artifacts.
• Guide and support system design compliance with certification, cyber security, quality, and safety standards.
• Assist the Systems Engineering Manager in the continuous improvement of system engineering processes and methodologies.
• Support all Systems Engineering aspects of project planning, scheduling, staffing, and resource allocation.
• Provide executive status reports to leadership as required during weekly status updates and monthly Program Management Reviews.
• Perform trade studies to evaluate different concepts and architectures.
• Develop use cases, behavioral diagrams, requirements, and validation methods.
• Implement behavior driven development principles within an agile development process.
• Ensure traceability, justification, and validation artifacts for requirements from CONOPS to proposed design requirements.
• Coordinate with the Systems Engineering Team.
• Provide ownership of all candidate requirements developed for prototypes up tot TRL 5 and model dependencies and assumptions between different prototype development.
• Support standards development, domestic and international research engagements and the development of white papers and CONOPS.
• Support technology roadmap and technology maturation processes.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Contribute to the design of novel user interfaces for SkyGrid’s operator-facing services.
• Assess, track, and document the Human Readiness Level (HRL) of in-development SkyGrid products.
• Collaborate with other Human Factors and User Experience specialists to translate customer needs into actionable work items that drive user-interface development.
• Coordinate human-in-the-loop test plans for SkyGrid’s ground-based automation systems supporting the airspace integration of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM).
• Identify and document design philosophy for novel user interfaces based on human factors principles.
• Collaborate with other Human Factors and User Experience engineers at SkyGrid to design innovative user interfaces for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) traffic management systems.
• Create low-fidelity wireframes to explore and validate workflows, information hierarchy, and interaction patterns early in the design process.
• Create high-fidelity UI designs that accurately represent the final visual design for implementation in software.
• Coordinate human-in-the-loop tests for ground-based automation systems supporting the airspace integration of AAM.
• Monitor and analyze trends in the design of user interfaces for AAM traffic management tools.

Airspace Integration Engineer III

Senior Systems Engineer

Airspace Integration Engineer III, Human-Machine Interface