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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 Sea 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 new and recent graduates to join our Sea Systems business area to develop solutions in support of our unmanned surface vehicles programs. Current focal areas include autonomous control, advanced payload integration, vision systems, and other emerging technologies to enhance our unmanned surface vehicle platforms’ capabilities.

Your day may include designing, simulating, constructing, and field-testing autonomous surface vehicles and their subsystems. Our goal is to deliver disruptive autonomy technologies that enhance our customers’ mission capabilities?We work?on applied research and development initiatives as well as established programs, and leverage diversity of thought to improve Textron Systems’ lines of robotic products.

We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will:

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, development, and execution of tests for products (hardware, software, systems) to ensure quality, functionality, and reliability, creating test plans, writing test cases, identifying defects, and collaborating with development teams for fixes, ultimately ensuring products meet specifications and user needs before launch
• Test Planning & Design: Understand requirements, define scope, objectives, and resources, then create detailed test plans, strategies, and procedures
• Test Case Development: Write specific test cases and scripts for various tests (functional, performance, security, etc.).
• Test Execution: Run tests, monitor the development and production process, and manage controlled testing environments.
• Defect Management: Identify document (using bug trackers), report, and track software/hardware and product defects.
• Collaboration & Feedback: Work with developers, process engineers, and management to provide insights, suggest improvements, and ensure quality standards are met.
• Reporting: Analyze results, document findings, preparing and presenting Test engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers [AA2]  at program milestone reviews.
• Interact daily with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and other engineers.
• Driving tasks to completion independently – aided by appropriate supervision and mentoring.
• Collaborating with others within the workgroup, with other departments, and the customer.

About This Role

Textron Systems in Wilmington, MA is seeking a skilled Composite Materials professional to support the development of advanced materials, thermal protection systems and high-temperature composite structures used in cutting-edge hypersonic and reentry programs. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and manufacturing, with significant time spent on the shop floor and in the lab executing builds, refining processes and conducting material testing. You will help translate design requirements into repeatable, efficient manufacturing methods while troubleshooting defects and improving quality, yield and throughput.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly hands-on and comfortable working in a fast-paced, low-volume/high-mix environment. You should be adaptable, collaborative and able to quickly iterate and make data-driven decisions in both development and production settings.

Job Responsibilities

You will work closely with design engineering and manufacturing teams to support development and production of advanced composite materials (carbon/carbon, 3D woven, laminated, resin-infused systems). Responsibilities include:

• Translating material and design requirements into robust manufacturing processes and clear work instructions in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Planning and executing material fabrication, including layup, preforming, infusion (VARTM/RTM) and curing.
• Developing and optimizing process parameters (resin systems, flow media, vacuum strategy, cure cycles).
• Designing and supporting tooling for complex preforms and infusion setups.
• Performing hands-on builds, trials and process validation on the shop floor.
• Developing and executing mechanical, thermal and environmental test plans.
• Analyzing test data to characterize material properties and drive continuous process improvements.
• Supporting process qualification and first-article activities.
• Investigating defects (voids, dry spots, delamination’s) and implementing root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Collaborating with design engineering on material selection, laminate stack-ups and DFM/DFA considerations.
• Interfacing with suppliers for fibers, resins, and preforms and supporting material down-select and qualification.
• Ensuring compliance with aerospace and defense standards and specifications.
• Evaluating emerging manufacturing technologies and conducting cost/benefit assessments for potential adoption.

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.?

We've been in the industry for more than 50 years and embraced the unique capabilities that come with being a mid-sized player. We bring the agility of a small business to meet our customers' most urgent requirements and empower our team members to push past possible. We can scale quickly to solve the big problems, working across functions, sites, and business lines to make it happen. We’re comprised of 7 domains specializing in Air, Sea, Land, Weapons Systems, Electronic Systems, Propulsion, and Testing and Training Simulations.

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

The Uncrewed Land and Air Systems team in Hunt Valley is seeking a passionate and skilled Systems Engineer IV to join our team to work on innovative products in our ground robotics and air domains. Our team is engaged in multiple cutting-edge development programs for defense applications, and we are looking for engineers who are eager to apply a diverse set of technologies and skills to create indispensable robotic solutions. This interdisciplinary role involves supporting the full life cycle development of our products, including new product development, product upgrades, payload design, integration and test, and fielding solutions for military and commercial customers. The ideal candidate will have experience in hardware and/or software integration, managing requirements derivation and allocation, and working successfully within a collaborative team environment. A strong desire to take ownership of design efforts to ensure the integration of new technology into our vehicles is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Engineering Design and Development:
  • Lead full-lifecycle engineering design and development activities on established and disruptive new products.
  • Work across engineering disciplines to develop conceptual designs that solve complex problems.
  • Perform requirements analysis and derivation to understand customer needs.
  • Develop architecture models utilizing SysML to support requirements development and derivation.
  • Use requirements management and test tools to decompose program requirements.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE):
  • Develop and maintain system models using MBSE methodologies and tools.
  • Utilize SysML for creating and managing system architecture models.
  • Integrate MBSE practices into the overall systems engineering process to improve design, analysis, and verification activities.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure MBSE models accurately represent system requirements and design.
• Systems Integration and Testing:
  • Lead hands-on integration of components and subsystems into Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and/or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
  • Develop integration test plans and procedures to verify product integration.
  • Perform analysis of data extracted from testing.
  • Define methods, processes, and evaluation criteria for verifying systems, subsystems, and work products against their requirements.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Prepare and present systems engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers at program milestone reviews.
  • Interact daily with technical leads, program managers, planners, technicians, and other engineers.
  • Collaborate with others within the workgroup, with other departments, and with customers.
• Project Management and Technical Direction:
  • Participate in an Integrated Product Team to design new capabilities based on evaluation of all necessary development and operational considerations.
  • Provide technical direction for the development, engineering, interfacing, integration, and testing of specific components of complex hardware/software systems.
  • Manage system requirements and derived requirements to ensure the delivery of production systems that are compatible with the defined system architecture(s)
  • Assist with the development of system requirements, functional requirements, and allocation of the same to individual hardware, software, facility, and personnel components.

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 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:

• Lead a team of individuals to perform detailed design of electrical and electronic assemblies and analysis, integration, and testing
• Contribute to concept development as part of internal cross-functional design teams, including prototyping and production support
• Prepare high-quality formal engineering documentation such as drawings, presentations, specifications, design presentations to customers, test plans, and test reports
• Support proposal activity, providing input to cost estimates and risk assessments
• Experience with radio communication systems, antenna specification, and electromagnetic interference mitigation, programming for small, embedded processors, and control systems including PID control loops
• Knowledge and experience with computer-aided design tools is required; LabVIEW, MATLAB, Zuken, Mentor Graphics, Altium, Microsoft Visio, Capital Harness XC
• Experience with power electronic circuit design, MOSFETs, schematic capture, board layout techniques, circuit board manufacturing, drive circuit development for brushless DC motors, serial data communication both single-ended and balanced, safety architectures, and high voltage systems.