Associate Manager - Systems Engineering (Hybrid)

Overview

Lead a team of systems engineers responsible for the development, integration, verification, and validation of aircraft interior systems and solutions, driving systems engineering excellence across the product development lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end systems engineering activities for aircraft interior products and solutions.
• Drive system requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, traceability, and management.
• Lead system architecture development, functional decomposition, and interface definition.
• Provide technical guidance for system design, integration, verification, and validation.
• Ensure consistency and traceability between customer requirements, system requirements, design specifications, and verification evidence.
• Ensure effective management of system interfaces and integration dependencies.
• Support customer technical reviews and engineering discussions with aircraft OEMs and suppliers.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of aircraft installation requirements, environmental conditions, safety, reliability, and certification requirements.
• Review and provide technical approvals for engineering deliverables and design documentation.
• Drive technical problem-solving, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex engineering issues.
• Drive adoption and implementation of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies for system architecture development, requirements management, and system integration.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of systems engineering professionals.
• Establish individual performance objectives aligned with business and engineering priorities.
• Drive employee engagement, technical competency development, and succession planning.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide continuous coaching and feedback.
• Ensure optimal resource allocation and workload management.
• Ensure timely execution and delivery of engineering commitments across assigned programs.
• Partner with program management, design engineering, software, hardware, systems integration, quality, and operations teams.
• Monitor engineering schedules, resource requirements, technical risks, and deliverable quality.
• Support program milestone reviews, design reviews, and customer technical reviews.
• Identify potential program execution challenges and implement mitigation plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering productivity and delivery effectiveness.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
• 9–12 years of relevant experience in systems engineering or a closely related engineering domain.
• At least 3 years of demonstrated experience in project and people management.
• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering lifecycle activities, including requirements development, architecture, integration, verification, and validation.
• Practical experience in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including system architecture modeling, requirements traceability, and interface management.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams or providing technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of engineering development processes and aerospace product development methodologies.
• Experience working in cross-functional and multidisciplinary engineering environments.
• Strong technical communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving capabilities.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in aerospace engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience working with aircraft OEMs, aerospace suppliers, and airline customers.
• Knowledge of ARP4754, ARP4761, DO-160, DO-254, DO-178.
• Understanding of applicable aircraft certification and development assurance processes.
• Experience with requirements management tool (Polarion, DOORS or JAMA) and systems modeling tools (MATLAB/Simulink, Cameo System Modeler, MagicDraw or IBM Rhapsody).
• Previous experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Exposure to Systems Engineering competency development, process improvement, and productivity initiatives.
• Exposure to MBSE, digital engineering, model-based verification, and digital thread concepts.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Northgate, Sy No 2/2 Venkatala Village, Yelahanka Hobli).
• Role type: Hybrid, with onsite and offsite work; the ratio of onsite time is determined with your leader.
• All India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.