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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 Sea, Air & Land Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!
About This Role
We are seeking a mid-level Autonomy Engineer to help develop and integrate autonomous capabilities for defense systems operating across air, land, maritime, and weapons domains to include multi-domain environments. This role is well suited to an engineer who combines practical system and project execution experience with a strong interest in the technologies that enable intelligent, mission-focused behavior.
As an Autonomy Engineer, you will help turn mission needs and operational concepts into implementable autonomy designs. You will work across the autonomy stack, capturing designs, defining interfaces, decomposing functions, evaluating technology insertions, and supporting integration into real systems that perform in operationally relevant environments.
You will collaborate with software, hardware, controls, robotics, navigation, human factors, test, program, and customer teams. The work will include both disciplined engineering of existing capabilities and exploration of new concepts, tools, and methods.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and realization of autonomous system capabilities through analysis, prototyping, design, integration, demonstrations and formal test activities.
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and concepts for applicability in product designs and capability roadmaps.
- Translate mission objectives, operational concepts, scenarios, and constraints into autonomy functions, behaviors, performance measures, and testable technical objectives and requirements.
- Conduct trade studies, structured evaluations, experiments, modeling and simulation, and prototype assessments to compare technology approaches against measurable operational and technical criteria.
- Contribute to project engineering activities such as technical planning, estimates, schedules, risks, dependencies, work products, reviews, and coordination across technical teams.
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.
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
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
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
Leading software development efforts
Estimating, scope management, task generation/assignment, status reporting, etc.
Drive tasks to completion independently.
Provide technical direction to engineering staff and technicians of all disciplines as required.
Ability to interact daily with program managers, planners, and technicians.
Prepare and present software engineering work products to internal review teams and external customers at program milestone reviews.
(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
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 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
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
This entry level position develops and coordinates with Manufacturing the strategies and plans that improve productivity. Under Management supervision, implements practices to reduce operating expenses, reduce work in progress, and increase production.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design and Development:
- Develop software tools and applications to optimize manufacturing processes.
- Collaborate with manufacturing engineers to identify inefficiencies and provide software-driven solutions.
- Integration:
- Create systems and tools that integrate manufacturing equipment with enterprise resource planning (ERP) or manufacturing execution systems (MES).
- Work with technologies like PLC programming (Programmable Logic Controllers) for automation.
- Data Analysis and Monitoring:
- Develop tools for real-time data collection and analysis.
- Work on predictive maintenance and performance monitoring systems.
- Problem-Solving:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve bottlenecks and improve process efficiency.
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 Marine & Land 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:
We are seeking an experienced Robotics Engineer to join our team. We are focused on advancing the automation and robotics manufacturing systems for military vehicles. As an Robotics Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining automation solutions that enhance the functionality, safety, and performance of our manufacturing processes and tooling.
Responsibilities:
Drive automation expansion opportunities for welding & assembly, with potential of automating material handling, inspection, etc.
Develop and lead robotic welding cell concepts for aluminum components, including process selection, weld joint design considerations, fixture needs, and robot/tooling requirements.
Evaluate feasibility of automating existing manual welding operations, including cycle time studies, reach studies, safety, and quality requirements.
Create design concepts, simulation models, and offline programming paths for proposed systems.
Ensure the highest levels of safety and reliability for the automation systems in compliance with military standards and regulations.
Select and specify robots, weld power supplies, end-of-arm tooling, sensors, fixturing, and ancillary equipment.
Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Tooling, and Operations to ensure designs meet cost, schedule, and performance requirements.
Develop and maintain detailed engineering documentation, including process instructions, cell layouts, and PFMEA inputs.
Lead and oversee installation, commissioning, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) activities.
Perform programming, tuning, and optimization of robotic weld paths, parameters, and sequences.
Train operators, technicians, and maintenance personnel on proper use and upkeep of robotic systems.
Support ongoing troubleshooting and maintenance of automation systems.
AI Readiness: Textron expects employees to use AI-enabled tools responsibly and effectively. Candidates should be comfortable learning and applying these tools, evaluating AI-generated output with sound judgment, and using AI in line with company policy and ethical standards. Prior experience with specific tools is not required — we value curiosity, adaptability, and good judgment
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
About ATAC
Textron Systems - ATAC provides tactical flight training and adversary aggressor services for U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force pilots. ATAC operates simultaneously across eight sites and two continents and comprises the world’s largest outsourced civilian, tactical airborne training organization and proudly provides the highest quality live training to Squadrons, Air Wings, and Battle Groups. www.atacusa.com
About This Role
The Aircraft Mechanic is responsible for maintenance actions on Airborne Tactical Advantage Company’s aircraft as well as the safe and expeditious launch and recovery flight line operations at permanent and detachment sites.
Responsibilities
· Maintenance efforts in support of company commitments
· Proficient in one type/model aircraft and helper on additional type/model aircraft
· Utilize AMS program
· Training of maintenance personnel
· Manage assigned maintenance programs
· Assist with coordination of detachment requirements with Crew Chiefs (as necessary)
· Obtain and maintain Detachment Lead qualification
· The Aircraft Mechanic troubleshoots malfunctions in aircraft structure, landing gear, flight surfaces and controls
· This mechanic repairs, replaces, and rebuilds aircraft structures, such as wings and fuselage, and functional components including rigging, surface controls
· This mechanic performs 100-hour, progressive, isochronal, phase, periodic, and other hourly or calendar inspections
· This mechanic: adjusts, repairs, or replaces electrical wiring system and aircraft accessories, performs preflight, thru-flight, and post-flight maintenance inspections
· Applies comprehensive technical expertise to solve moderate to complex problems by interpreting technical documentation such as; blueprints or manufactures’ manuals
· Must be able to prioritize workload to maintain schedules on assigned projects
· Additional responsibilities as delineated by Production Supervisor and Crew Chiefs
· Manage programs as assigned