System Integration & Labs Manager

About you:

We are seeking a Systems Integration & Labs Manager to lead the design, build, and operation of HIL, AIR and SIL environments that support flight controls development, autonomy validation, and multi-aircraft integration.

This role owns the physical integration layer of the simulation ecosystem — ensuring stable, repeatable, and scalable deployment of hardware-in-the-loop and lab-based validation environments across multiple aircraft platforms.

Responsibilities:

1. Test Environment Leadership

Lead the design, build, and lifecycle management of HIL, AIR, and SIL environments

Establish configuration control standards for hardware, networking, and physical integration

Ensure lab infrastructure scales cleanly across multiple aircraft platforms

2. Integration Stability & Discipline

Implement structured integration processes

Define and enforce bench configuration versioning and compatibility practices

Partner with the Simulation Platform pillar to ensure clean deployment of platform-defined topologies

3. Team Leadership

Manage and grow a team of integration engineers

Set technical standards for hardware integration, signal integrity, and deployment

Provide escalation support during integration and validation events

4. Cross-Functional Coordination

Collaborate with Flight Dynamics and Simulation Platform teams

Support flight test preparation and remote integration events

Interface with Systems, Autonomy, and Compute Platform teams to align integration timelines

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in systems integration, HIL/SIL environments, or complex hardware/software integration

Experience leading integration efforts across evolving system configurations
Strong understanding of real-time I/O, embedded interfaces, and hardware-in-the-loop validation

Experience managing technical teams in a multidisciplinary engineering environment

Demonstrated ability to bring structure and discipline to evolving integration workflows

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with aerospace or autonomy systems

Experience deploying virtualized compute infrastructure in lab environments

Familiarity with configuration management and compatibility versioning strategies