What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Avionics Systems Integration Engineer position at Castelion?
About Castelion
Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production : one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. We’re designing, building, and testing next generation long range strike weapons systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge and deter future conflicts.
Senior Avionics Systems Integration Engineer
Join Castelion and play a pivotal role in advancing the development of next-generation hypersonic missile systems. As an Avionics Systems Engineer, you'll be part of a cross-disciplinary team responsible for the seamless integration of avionics systems across design, development, testing, and operations. You'll directly impact mission-critical systems that shape national defense and peace through deterrence.
Responsibilities
- Lead the integration and operational readiness of avionics systems from initial design and assembly through testing and field operations
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve electrical hardware issues under aggressive development timelines while driving long-term improvements
- Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, flight operations, and post-flight assessments, ensuring real-time system health monitoring and issue resolution
- Collaborate cross-functionally to optimize avionics architectures, reducing mass, cost, and complexity through innovative solutions
- Contribute to the development and validation of advanced avionics capabilities, including power systems, sensors, vehicle networks, RF, and control systems
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Skills and Experience
Additional Requirements
All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment as Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medial, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers three weeks of paid time off per year.
Leadership Qualities
Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes / concepts / materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.
High Commitment, High Initiative . A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion’s mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company’s technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.
Clear Communicator . Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity.
ITAR Requirements :
Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
