Future Flight Decks Sr Principal Engineer

The AD&D Engineer Principal Sr. - Future Flight Decks is a forward-thinking engineering leader responsible for driving the early-stage development of intelligent, automated aircraft systems within the Cirrus Advanced Design and Development (AD&D) team.

This position will lead the technical work to explore and develop new philosophies and design concepts related to simplified vehicle operations - including new flight deck technologies, advanced display and software features, and next generation control architectures.

This role will be a key pillar of the AD&D team will own the maturation of new ideas into validated concepts, and is focused on the initial phases of aircraft development—ideation, hypothesis generation, stakeholder engagement, technology maturation, and conceptual design.

The successful candidate for this role will be a balanced future-minded pilot, avionics, human factors, and concept prototyping engineer.

• Take full ownership of leading the development of Future Flight Decks, pilot-vehicle interfaces, flight control inceptors, and their associated systems and software features -- from ideation thru conceptual design and into practical product paths.
• Lead the drafting and refinement of future pilot-vehicle-interface philosophies and concepts of operation for simplified vehicle operations.
• Lead the design, fabrication, and refinement of flight deck mockups and developmental simulators.
• Create and manage development plans focused on early-stage exploration, requirements capture, and concept validation.
• Design and validate control logic for automated system and equipment functionality.
• Generate and test hypotheses through iterative hands-on prototyping, simulation, and evaluation, with minimal supervision.
• Organize and conduct pilot and non-pilot user evaluations to assess concept prototypes and identify follow on questions, risks, issues, or areas of improvement.
• Organize, define, analyze, and validate pilot functional tasks.
• Engineer and refine requirements and objectives through stakeholder engagement and iterative experimentation.
• Translate verbal direction and vision into actionable design objectives and development strategies.
• Collaborate directly with pilots, mechanics, and experimental technicians, as well as external stakeholders such as Product Development, Certification, and Production teams.
• Work closely with other groups developing embedded systems, advanced sensing systems, advanced flight controls, and automated systems.