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Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Uncrewed Land & Air Space business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
The Uncrewed Land and Air Systems team in Hunt Valley is seeking a skilled System Safety Engineer to support development of advanced ground robotics and airborne systems. Our group leads multiple cutting-edge defense programs, and we are looking for engineers who are eager to apply broad technical expertise to deliver safe, reliable, mission-critical robotic solutions.
In this role, you will identify hazards, assess and categorize risk, and recommend mitigations to reduce the probability or severity of mishaps that could impact personnel, equipment, or the environment. You will collaborate closely with government partners, vendors, and end users to ensure the safety and compliance of Department of War (DoW) weapon systems and platforms. You will apply established scientific and engineering principles to guide the development and implementation of effective safety measures that reduce risk to the warfighter.
As a system safety engineer on our team, you’ll work in a dynamic environment supporting comprehensive system safety programs across a diverse portfolio, which may include radar systems, unmanned systems, ground-based missile systems, surface vessels and support equipment, or laser systems. You will plan, execute and lead Systems Safety programs in accordance with MIL-STD-882E. You will develop and review standard system safety work products, including System Safety Program Plans (SSPP); Preliminary Hazard Analyses (PHA); Subsystem and System Hazard Analyses (SSHA/SHA); Operating and Support Hazard Analyses (O&SHA); Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) analyses; Safety Assessment Reports (SAR); safety releases; and test report evaluations.
You will analyze system data, develop deliverables, and present safety findings and recommendations. You will review safety artifacts for compliance with requirements, policy, and guidance, while following established plans and quality standards. The role also provides opportunities to improve processes, enhance methodologies, and contribute to the advancement of the system safety discipline. In addition, you will lead and mentor junior engineers, supporting their growth and strengthening the team’s capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Hazard Analysis & Risk Management (MIL-STD-882)
- Perform and support system safety analyses in accordance with MIL-STD-882 tasks, including:
- Task 101: Review hazard analyses and test documentation for validity.
- Task 106: Review contractor design artifacts and document single-point failures.
- Task 201 & 202: Complete Preliminary Hazard Lists (PHL) and Preliminary Hazard Analyses (PHA).
- Task 204 & 205: Complete Sub-System Hazard Analyses (SSHA) and System Hazard Analyses (SHA).
- Task 207: Complete Health Hazard Analyses (HHA), including Government Furnished Equipment (GFE).
- Identify hazards and implement mitigations to achieve target mishap risk in coordination with design managers.
- Review System Requirements documentation to identify potential hazardous conditions and make recommendations to system design in collaboration with program staff.
Perform operational analysis to identify potential deficiencies in operating procedures, training documentation, maintenance procedures, storage and handling procedures, and/or ordnance handling procedures. Make recommendations to resolve deficiencies
Database Management & Tracking
- Enter, track, control, and document risks using the HTS.
- Participate in tabletop reviews and testing of the HTS.
Program Support & Documentation
- Support the update and execution of a System Safety Management Plan (SSMP).
- Prepare and draft written documentation, including management plans, special topic papers, and technical reports.
- Review program documentation, drawings, and analyses provided by contractors.
Collaboration & Integration
- Collaborate effectively with the Program Manager’s staff, sponsors, and Engineering Technical Authorities.
- Maintain alignment with the Program’s Integrated Government Schedule (IGS) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Attend government, stakeholder, and contractor meetings regarding system safety.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to identify areas in design requiring safety improvements.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Weapon Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
Textron Systems is seeking a Full time Mechanical Engineer with experience in mechanical design focused on military applications. The candidate should possess good communication and presentation skills and be comfortable interacting with suppliers within a multidiscipline team. The position requires experience integrating component design solutions into an overall assembly. This position requires that the candidate be a US citizen with or capable of receiving a secret level security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Participating in the detailed design of structural components.
- Being a member of a team responsible for the development and design integration of mechanical components and systems.
- Creation of Technical Data Packages that include 3D drawings, specifications and materials lists for component and assemblies of mechanical and electro-mechanical applications.
- Preparing and directing high quality mechanical and electro-mechanical detail and assembly drawings
- Transitioning product design to production and test.
- Writing technical and proposal documents.
- Creating detailed design reports and presentations to summarize design/analysis results.
Who We Are
We are Textron Systems, best known for innovative defense technologies and services. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems. We are a part of Textron Inc, one of the world’s leading multi-industry companies, recognized for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO and many more.?
This role is in Textron System’s Uncrewed Land and Air Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & HoweandHowe.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
This Software Engineering role is within Textron System’s Uncrewed Land and Air Systems division. Our team is engaged in multiple cutting-edge development programs for defense applications. A strong candidate for this role will possess a history of software development for robotic/autonomous applications. Required experience includes software/hardware interface development, software integration, and a history of working in a fast-paced team environment.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
· Providing engineering support on both current and next generation technologies in support of our family of uncrewed ground and air products
o Our products are entire systems ranging from the vehicle platforms to their control stations
· Participating in software development of new products across all phases of the product lifecycle from concept development to lab and offsite integration and evaluation
o Estimation, requirements, design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and release
· Taking technical leadership/ownership of software components and systems
· Integrating internal and third-party software solutions into our products
· Interfacing directly with the customer
· Collaborating with the software engineering team and other engineering disciplines to create functional systems
· Mentoring others within the team
· Performing trade studies
· Supporting onsite & offsite integration and test
· Driving process improvement
· (Potential) Leading software development efforts
o Estimating, scope management, task generation/assignment, status reporting, etc.
· (Potential) Attending industry conferences/events to gauge competition and find new opportunities
Growth Opportunities include:
· Technical leadership
· Individual Contributor (SME)
· Engineering Management
Who We Are
We are Textron Systems, best known for innovative defense technologies and services. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems. We are a part of Textron Inc, one of the world’s leading multi-industry companies, recognized for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO and many more.?
This role is in Textron System’s Uncrewed Land and Air Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & HoweandHowe.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
This Software Engineering role is within Textron System’s Uncrewed Land and Air Systems division. Our team is engaged in multiple cutting-edge development programs for defense applications. A strong candidate will possess a solid knowledge base in software development and design best practices.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
· Providing engineering support on both current and next generation technologies in support of our family of uncrewed ground and air products
o Our products are entire systems ranging from the vehicle platforms to their control stations
· Participating in software development of new products across all phases of the product lifecycle from concept development to lab and offsite integration and evaluation
o Requirements, design, implementation, review, testing, and documentation
· Integrating internal and third-party software solutions into our products
· Collaborating with the software engineering team and other engineering disciplines to create functional systems
· Supporting onsite & offsite integration and test support
Growth Opportunities include:
· Technical leadership
· Individual Contributor (SME)
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Weapon Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
Electrical Systems Engineering Sr Manager
Position Summary
The Electrical Systems Manager is responsible for directing and integrating all electrical engineering activities across a complex aerospace development program. This role serves as the senior electrical engineering authority for the program and provides technical leadership, execution oversight, and cross-functional coordination for electrical design, systems integration, verification, test, and electronics test equipment development. The Electrical Systems Manager ensures the electrical architecture, avionics hardware, power systems, interfaces, integration strategy, and verification approach collectively satisfy program requirements, technical performance objectives, and customer expectations.
This role operates as a key member of the program’s engineering leadership team and works closely with program management, chief engineering, firmware engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer representatives.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Provide overall leadership and direction for all electrical engineering activities on the program.
- Establish and maintain the electrical engineering technical baseline across design, integration, verification, and test.
- Ensure electrical subsystem designs meet performance, reliability, safety, EMI/EMC, power, thermal, and environmental requirements.
- Lead technical decision-making, trade studies, design reviews, and engineering risk assessments.
- Drive timely resolution of complex technical issues affecting cost, schedule, performance, or integration.
Team and Organizational Management
- Lead a multi-disciplinary electrical engineering organization composed of functional leads in design engineering, electrical systems engineering, electrical test, and test equipment development
- Align engineering priorities, staffing, and technical execution across integrated product teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads while fostering strong engineering rigor and accountability.
- Support staffing plans, organizational development, and engineering process improvement initiatives.
Design and Systems Integration
- Oversee development of avionics hardware, electrical architectures, power distribution systems, harnessing, interfaces, and embedded electronic assemblies.
- Ensure configuration control and disciplined change management throughout development.
- Coordinate interfaces between mechanical, electrical, firmware, manufacturing, and systems engineering teams.
- Ensure requirements traceability and verification planning are fully integrated into design activities.
Verification, Test, and Test Equipment Oversight
- Oversee electrical verification and validation activities including bench testing, subsystem integration testing, environmental testing, EMI/EMC qualification, and system-level verification.
- Direct development of electronics test equipment, automated test systems, hardware-in-the-loop solutions, and laboratory integration capabilities required to support development and qualification activities.
- Review and approve test objectives, procedures, instrumentation plans, and anomaly resolution efforts.
- Ensure analytical predictions, laboratory data, and qualification test results are properly correlated and dispositioned.
Program Execution
- Support program planning, cost estimation, schedule development, and risk management activities.
- Track engineering execution against milestones and technical performance measures.
- Provide regular status updates to program leadership and customers regarding technical progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Support major program reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and qualification reviews.
Customer and Supplier Engagement
- Serve as a primary technical interface for electrical engineering matters with customers, suppliers, and partners.
- Support supplier technical oversight, design reviews, and issue resolution activities.
- Participate in customer briefings and technical interchange meetings.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Weapon Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role:
Senior ATE Mechanical Engineer, for Automated Test Equipment development. Applicant should have a strong background in designing and generating drawings for all aspects of ATE development, including release to Production.
Responsibilities:
- Design and Document Interconnect Diagrams, Rack Assemblies, Altered Items, Cable Assemblies, Interface Modules, Parts Lists / BOMs, and Interface Test Adaptors
- Design Mounting Fixtures, Thermal / Vibration Fixtures, and other Mechanical Assemblies, with attention to Detailing, Dimensioning, and Configuration Management
- 3D Modelling and ANSYS Structural Analysis of Fixtures
- Investigate parts compatibility and tolerances, produce Release quality drawings, check conformance to standards, specifications, and requirements, and submitting outputs directly into a Configuration Management system
- Manage Parts Ordering and Receipt
- Generation of Presentation Packages for, and participation in, Electrical / Mechanical Design Reviews
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s
Primary responsibilities include:
- Design, develop and document automated acceptance test equipment required for new and existing electronic products and assist with transition of this equipment to Production Test Engineering
- Develop a set of testing requirements based on engineering design documentation and hardware
- Develop functional test stations utilizing state of the art PXI, LAN, USB in a context of automated parametric measurements, while maintaining a modular, flexible and scalable design approach
- Assist in determining measurement techniques, identifying and procuring instrumentation, and implementation of test systems to perform requirements verification
- Interface with product development teams to determine appropriate test strategy and coverage for functional requirements
- Grow in electrical engineering expertise as opportunities in analog and digital circuits, cable design, debugging of electrical assemblies are presented
- Author process, test and calibration procedures
- Produce clear, understandable documentation geared for all audiences
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Weapon Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
Mechanical Systems Engineering Sr Manager
Position Summary
The Mechanical Engineering Lead is responsible for directing and integrating all mechanical engineering activities across a complex aerospace development program. This role serves as the senior mechanical authority for the program and provides technical leadership, execution oversight, and cross-functional coordination for mechanical design, systems integration, structural and thermal analysis, verification, and test activities. The Mechanical Engineering Lead ensures technical integrity, requirements compliance, manufacturability, verification readiness, and successful execution throughout the engineering development lifecycle. This role operates as a key member of the program’s engineering leadership team and works closely with program management, chief engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer representatives.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Provide overall leadership and direction for all mechanical engineering activities on the program.
- Establish and maintain the mechanical engineering technical baseline across design, analysis, integration, and test.
- Ensure mechanical system architectures and designs meet performance, reliability, safety, producibility, and maintainability requirements.
- Lead technical decision-making, trade studies, design reviews, and engineering risk assessments.
- Drive resolution of complex technical issues affecting cost, schedule, performance, or integration.
Team and Organizational Leadership
- Lead a multi-disciplinary mechanical engineering organization composed of functional leads in design engineering, systems engineering, mechanical analysis, and test engineering.
- Align engineering priorities and resources across integrated product teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads while fostering strong engineering rigor and accountability.
- Support staffing plans, organizational development, and engineering process improvement initiatives.
Design and Systems Integration
- Oversee development of mechanical hardware, assemblies, mechanisms, structures, and subsystem integration solutions.
- Ensure configuration control and disciplined change management throughout development.
- Coordinate interfaces between mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing, and systems engineering teams.
- Ensure requirements traceability and verification planning are fully integrated into design activities.
Analysis and Verification
- Direct structural, thermal, dynamic, fatigue, and other mechanical analyses required to support design maturity and qualification.
- Ensure analytical models and simulation approaches are appropriately validated and correlated.
- Oversee mechanical verification and validation planning, including qualification, environmental, and acceptance testing.
- Review and approve test objectives, procedures, instrumentation plans, and anomaly resolution activities.
Program Execution
- Support program planning, cost estimation, schedule development, and risk management activities.
- Track engineering execution against milestones and technical performance measures.
- Provide regular status updates to program leadership and customers regarding technical progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Support major program reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and qualification reviews.
Customer and Supplier Engagement
- Serve as a primary technical interface for mechanical engineering matters with customers, suppliers, and partners.
- Support supplier technical oversight, design reviews, and issue resolution activities.
- Participate in customer briefings and technical interchange meetings.
Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.
This role is in Textron System’s Weapon Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for developing Automated Test Equipment (ATE) in a DoD / Aerospace Line of Business. Applicant should have a strong background in Electrical Engineering, and possess a demonstrated ability developing C# test code for Special Test Equipment (ATE / STE). Test executives and test sequences, as well as commercial instrumentation interfaces, data acquisition and control, and communication protocols will be the prime applications to be designed and automated into our ATE systems. High awareness and competency in the cohesion required between the multi-disciplinary functions (electrical / mechanical / software) required of a formal ATE team are required. Designing with Modularity and Commonality are top requirements of the position. Additionally, the ability to generate Validation sequences, Calibration sequences, Test Reports, estimates, design review materials, and presentation packages, is critical.
Responsibilities
- Derive, flow, and trace Test Requirements from Sources to Test Code and Test Report
- Design and implement automation software to satisfy Test Requirements
- Interface with product development teams to determine appropriate test strategy and coverage for functional requirements
- Develop modular, reusable test automation software in C# and GUI tools for manufacturing and engineering design verification.
- Produce technical presentation packages for Design Reviews
- Collaborate with ATE Hardware developers to ensure hardware / software cohesion throughout the Integration and Debug phases
- Produce Test Procedures and Process Documents to support ATE deployment
- Integrate ATE with Units Under Test
- Release software into Configuration Management
- Support Contract Manufacturers with questions and Integration
- Interface with Production teams to satisfy Manufacturing requirements
About This Role
Textron Systems is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our team. This individual will work as part of a multidisciplined design engineering team during the development phases of an emerging program. The individual will be responsible for developing new analog designs and the transition of those designs into military qualified hardware. The individual should be familiar with Mixed Signal electronics design, switching power supply design, ordnance initiation and high density PWAs. The individual should be familiar with using OrCAD Capture, PSPICE or LTSpice and other simulation products. Our Design Engineering team is focused on developing and improving new product designs to support advanced emerging programs for military customers.
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing mixed signal electronic designs
- Developing schematics in standard design tools
- Analyzing circuit designs
- Working in a collaborative and cross-functional discipline environment