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Who We Are
We are Textron Systems, best known for innovative defense technologies and services. 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, Arctic Cat and many more. Our company leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative products and services.
But our business is all about people – the customers who rely on us and the exceptional team that brings our mission to life.
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.
Start your career in a big way by joining Textron Systems. We are here to provide necessary and life-changing services and products to our customers. We are right where the real work happens. By joining our team, you will gain exciting and versatile experiences from day one to fuel your growth. Talent development is a big part of who we are. Don't just start your career - go big.
Visit TextronSystems.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:
- Provide leadership and oversight for a team of both Software and Systems Engineering, including key disciplines such as:
- Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, System Safety, Cybersecurity, Reliability, and other technical areas essential to program success.
- Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, System Safety, Cybersecurity, Reliability, and other technical areas essential to program success.
- Ensure adequate staffing levels for both disciplines, including:
- Managing full-time employees, co-ops, interns, and contractors.
- Forecasting future resource needs and addressing potential workforce gaps.
- Managing full-time employees, co-ops, interns, and contractors.
- Drive development and engagement of Software and Systems Engineers by:
- Managing team performance through setting objectives, conducting reviews, and providing feedback.
- Mentoring and coaching team members in both domains to foster technical growth and career progression.
- Managing team performance through setting objectives, conducting reviews, and providing feedback.
- Oversee and enforce best practices for Software Engineering activities, including:
- Software architecture, development, and requirements engineering.
- Adoption and implementation of Agile methodologies and tools.
- Driving process improvements and monitoring quality compliance for software deliverables.
- Software architecture, development, and requirements engineering.
- Oversee Systems Engineering activities, ensuring execution excellence in areas such as:
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with an emphasis on SysML modeling and tools.
- Requirements development, decomposition, and analysis to ensure alignment with customer needs.
- System architecture definition and integration with program requirements across all technical domains.
- Verification and Validation (V&V) planning to ensure alignment with customer deliverables.
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with an emphasis on SysML modeling and tools.
- Oversee additional domain-specific responsibilities, including:
- Compliance with System Safety, Cybersecurity, and Systems Reliability standards.
- Reviewing and ensuring high-quality delivery of system-level and software-level artifacts to customers.
- Compliance with System Safety, Cybersecurity, and Systems Reliability standards.
- Track team and program performance by:
- Monitoring and analyzing quality metrics for both Software and Systems teams.
- Soliciting and addressing feedback from internal management and external customers.
- Providing regular progress updates for internal leadership and customers, including technical progress and resource management updates.
- Monitoring and analyzing quality metrics for both Software and Systems teams.
Why This Internship
As an intern with Textron, you’ll gain hands-on experience while exploring your interests and building new skills. You’ll be supported and challenged to contribute in meaningful ways – working on real projects alongside experienced professionals to prepare for future success.
Who We Are
Howe & Howe is a part of Textron Systems, a family of powerful brands that delivers disruptive solutions to its customers. Our product portfolio proudly serves our communities’ heroes, from fire-fighters and police officers to soldiers on the battlefield. Our goal is to provide the most advanced technology while ensuring the safety of our customers, and to define, create and conquer the ground robotics industry. Howe & Howe prioritizes tailor-made vehicles for any type of customer. There is no mission or design too unconventional for us to tackle. Leveraging Textron Systems’ capabilities, Howe & Howe is able to take its boundary-pushing innovations and quickly scale up manufacturing and customer support for even the biggest requirements.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at HoweandHowe.com and?TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Creating electrical schematics, harnessing design, and drawings in CAD system such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks?
Performing engineering calculations, writing specifications, formulating sketches, testing criteria, failure analysis, and cost estimates. ?
Providing technical support to both internal and external customers for technical data package delivery.?
Supporting Prototype build, troubleshooting and documentation as required.?
Understanding customer requirements, and provide design solutions?
Familiarity with Military standard and specifications then incorporating them into the system design
Interest in automotive design related field?
Why This Internship
As an intern with Textron, you’ll gain hands-on experience while exploring your interests and building new skills. You’ll be supported and challenged to contribute in meaningful ways – working on real projects alongside experienced professionals to prepare for future success.
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Conducts requirements analysis, develops and executes research verification and validation experiments, while working in a project team environment
Performs naval requirements analysis in order to develop new concepts and applications for high speed marine vessels and systems
Prepared calculations including preliminary weight performance, powering and range estimates
Develops new hull forms/ lines, general arrangements and basic hull structural definition for concept designs
Prepares technical reports and/or reviews technical data or reports provided by others as directed.
Performs and check Naval Architectural calculations relating to floodable length, hydrostatics, stability or tonnage to assure conformity with applicable Classification Society, Regulatory Body or Specification requirements.
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of an Electrical Engineering Co-Op:
As an electrical engineering co-op, you will perform a variety of assignments including conceptual design, engineering analysis, detailed sub-system electrical design, integration, test, and manufacturing and field support. A strong candidate will possess a broad range of engineering skills and could perform as an individual contributor or as a team lead. You will have the opportunity to work in a multi-functional team environment with a diverse array of exciting technologies and products that directly support our nation’s war fighters.?
Perform detailed design of electrical and electronic assemblies.?
Perform 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.?
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of a Mechanical Engineer Co-Op:
- Providing mechanical engineering support on both next generation technologies and proven platforms that support and protect our deployed warfighter
- Opportunities that range from solid modeling, fabrication and assembly, structural design, fastening and joining, and operations of measurement tools
- Fulfilling daily responsibilities including research and trade studies, developing mechanical design concepts, performance calculations, structural and thermal analysis, and hands-on support of testing and troubleshooting
- Work cohesively on a multi-functional team with exciting technologies and products
- Participate as an individual contributor in development of aero-electro-mechanical hardware across all phases of the product lifecycle, from concept development to lab integration and evaluation through end of life support
- Receive and execute activities in line with the broader project schedule and Senior or Principal Engineer guidance
- Perform detailed design of aeromechanical and electromechanical structures and subsystems using solid modeling, requirements analysis, trade studies, mechanical analysis including structural, thermal, and tolerance analysis, human interface design, design for cost and design for manufacturability
- Generate substantiating design and analysis documentation, create presentation materials, test plans, subcontractor statements of work, vendor control documents and installation documents?
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer Co-Op:
The Uncrewed Land & Air Systems, Hunt Valley team are seeking?Software Engineering?co-ops to join our organization for the summer! We want engineers who have the passion to apply a diverse set of technologies and skills to create indispensable solutions. Work is conducted on research and development initiatives that enable our land products and programs. Our interns are integral members of our inter-disciplinary engineering team.?In this role, you will be responsible for:
Tasks related to the full software development life cycle including design, development, build, integration, test, and delivery.
Working within a medium-sized software development team on tasks related to military vehicle system development
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of a Systems Engineer Co-Op:
Working in an interdisciplinary role, enabling the full life cycle of successful systems
Performing requirements analysis to understand customer needs
Developing architecture models to support requirements development and derivation
Working across engineering disciplines to develop conceptual designs that solve hard problems
Performing hands-on integration of components and subsystems into Ground Vehicles
Developing integration test plans and procedures to verify product integration
Performing analysis of data extracted from testing
Driving tasks to completion independently
Other duties as needed
Why This Internship
As an intern with Textron, you’ll gain hands-on experience while exploring your interests and building new skills. You’ll be supported and challenged to contribute in meaningful ways – working on real projects alongside experienced professionals to prepare for future success.
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Support the Navy customer to maximize up time and minimize recurrence of issues
Review engineering drawings, designs, specifications and products for assessment of system
Create, maintain, and communicate through documentation on all efforts
Analyze and maintain interface control documents and other technical documents required to troubleshoot the craft
Familiarize and analyze applicable MIL-STD, MIL-DTL, MIL-HDBK, and similar standards documentation related to craft design
Independently assess complex issues crossing multiple craft systems
Analyze electrical, mechanical drawings and apply data to ongoing troubleshooting
Analyze textual vendor and customer documentation and apply to ongoing troubleshooting
Develop imaginative, thorough, practicable technical solutions to a wide range of difficult system or systems problems
About the Entry Level Role
As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities.
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of a Mechanical Engineer I:
- Providing creative solutions to mechanical engineering design challenges
- Working in an interdisciplinary role, collaborating with peer engineers of varying disciplines.
- Solid modeling via NX and Solidworks.
- Design capture and configuration management via PLM systems.
- Learning how to create professional engineering drawings for manufacturing per industry ASME standards.
- Producing designs that leverage common fabrication and assembly processes while working with internal machine shops to manufacture parts on site.
- Creating structural designs by leveraging theory and analysis tools.
- Analysis and design of tracked vehicle of varying weight classes.
- Engine and generator integration into hybrid electric platforms.
- Operation of measurement tools, strain gages, and data acquisition systems
- Documenting and presenting derived requirements, designs, analysis results, etc.
About the Entry Level Role
As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities.
Who We Are
Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.
All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.
Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.
About This Role
A Day in the Life of an Electrical Engineer:
Textron Systems is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our Land Domain Ground Robotics team. We want engineers who have the passion to apply a diverse set of technologies and skills to create indispensable robotic solutions. Work is conducted on research and development initiatives that enable our ground robotic products and programs. In this role, you will be responsible for:
Fulfilling daily responsibilities including research and trade studies, developing electrical design concepts, performance calculations and simulation, and hands-on support of testing and troubleshooting
Opportunities that range from analog and digital circuits, fabrication and assembly, computer architectures, PCB design, debugging of electrical assemblies
Designing, documenting, and upgrading robotic systems to include critical vehicle electronics and mission payloads.
Some travel required to support customer demonstrations and product readiness.