About Acron Aviation (Avionics – Surveillance):
Acron Aviation designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems that support safety-critical flight operations across commercial and military aviation. Within Avionics, the Surveillance product line develops and sustains systems that enable aircraft awareness, collision avoidance, and airspace interoperability. Our portfolio includes TCAS, Mode S transponders, ADS-B, and integrated surveillance solutions deployed across commercial, military, and rotorcraft platforms. This work is performed in highly regulated environments and demands deep expertise across systems, hardware, software, and RF throughout the full product lifecycle.
Job Title
Technical Coordination Lead – Verification
Position Summary
Acron Aviation is seeking a SYS/SW Functional Lead & HCL Coordinator to lead independent verification and validation (IV&V) activities across systems and software for safety-critical avionics products. This role serves as the primary offshore focal point between Acron Aviation engineering teams and HCL delivery teams, ensuring execution quality, technical rigor, schedule alignment, and certification readiness.
The successful candidate will combine hands-on technical verification expertise with team leadership, partner coordination, and day-to-day execution management. This individual will provide technical direction, oversee work assignments, review deliverables, drive issue resolution, and maintain alignment across software, systems, hardware, certification, and program stakeholders.
This is a highly visible role requiring strong ownership, technical judgment, communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision across globally distributed teams.
This role may require occasional international travel to Acron Aviation sites, customer locations, certification events, and engineering integration activities. Candidates who already possess a valid U.S. business visa (B1/B2 or equivalent) are strongly preferred.
Team Leadership & Coordination
- Act as the primary interface between Acron Aviation U.S. engineering teams, Acron India engineering teams, and HCL delivery teams, ensuring alignment of priorities, resources, deliverables, and schedules.
- Lead daily execution of systems and software verification and validation activities for avionics products
- Plan, assign, review, and monitor V&V work packages while ensuring quality, schedule, and technical objectives are achieved
- Identify and escalate technical risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and schedule impacts proactively
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including process optimization, automation, AI-enabled tools, and verification efficiency enhancements
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to offshore V&V team members
- Support onboarding of new team members, including tool access, process training, and development environment setup
Systems and Software Verification
- Define, review, and execute verification activities for system requirements, software high-level requirements, software low-level requirements, interface requirements, and integration requirements
- Develop and execute requirements-based testing, analysis, inspections, and reviews in accordance with certification objectives
- Author and maintain test procedures, test cases, automated test assets, test reports, and verification artifacts
- Support software verification activities, including integration testing, regression testing, robustness testing, interface testing, and structural coverage analysis
- Partner with software development teams to investigate coverage gaps, resolve anomalies, and close certification findings
Lab and Test Environment Management
- Configure, maintain, and improve avionics integration laboratories and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments
- Support development and maintenance of Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and HIL test benches
- Establish repeatable software integration and regression environments
- Utilize lab instrumentation and diagnostic equipment to support integration, debug, and troubleshooting activities
Certification and Compliance Support
- Support certification activities in accordance with FAA and EASA expectations
- Participate in Stage of Involvement (SOI) audits and certification reviews
- Prepare and review certification evidence packages and compliance documentation
- Author or review verification plans, procedures, test reports, traceability data, coverage reports, and certification support documentation
- Ensure verification evidence is complete, traceable, and audit-ready
Requirements Traceability and Defect Management
- Maintain bidirectional traceability between requirements, design artifacts, source code, tests, verification results, and problem reports
- Utilize approved requirements, configuration management, and defect tracking tools
- Lead defect triage activities for software and integrated system anomalies
- Support root cause investigations, corrective action verification, and objective evidence collection
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Coordinate across systems, software, hardware, quality, configuration management, certification, and program teams
- Lead technical reviews, readiness reviews, and status meetings
- Create clear work instructions and tasking packages that enable consistent execution across distributed teams
- Provide regular status reporting, metrics, risk visibility, and closure plans to program and engineering leadership
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 8–12 years of experience in avionics systems verification, software verification, IV&V, or embedded systems validation within regulated environments
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required to support engineering, certification, and program activities.
- Experience leading small to medium-sized engineering teams, work packages, or supplier-delivered activities
- Strong knowledge of DO-178C and software lifecycle verification activities
- Familiarity with DO-254 concepts and hardware/software integration environments
- Experience supporting certification programs involving FAA, EASA, or equivalent regulatory authorities
- Experience developing and executing requirements-based testing
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience within avionics or embedded systems environments
- Proficiency with Python and familiarity with C/C++
- Experience using requirements, configuration management, and defect tracking tools such as IBM DOORS, Jama, VectorCAST, LDRA, CANoe, CANalyzer, Git, ClearCase/ClearQuest or equivalent tools
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and regression environments
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills
- Experience using automation and AI tools to streamline workflows and improve operational efficiency
- Demonstrated a continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to evaluate processes and implement more effective ways of working
- Ability to adopt and promote automation and AI tools to improve team speed, quality, and execution
Preferred Additional Skills
- Experience supporting offshore engineering delivery models and external engineering partners
- Experience working directly with HCL or similar engineering service organizations
- Familiarity with ARP4754A, ARP4761, and DO-330
- Experience with structural coverage analysis and certification credit activities
- Knowledge of avionics communication protocols, including ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 664 (AFDX), CAN, Ethernet, and Serial interfaces
- Experience with SIL, HIL, and avionics integration laboratories
- Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools and workflow automation
- Current valid U.S. business visa (B1/B2 or equivalent) strongly preferred due to anticipated travel for onboarding, engineering collaboration, integration activities, and project meetings; qualified candidates without an existing visa will also be considered.
- Previous experience supporting global engineering programs requiring travel to customers, certification, or company sites.
Success Profile
- Operates effectively with limited supervision and strong personal ownership
- Balances technical leadership, team coordination, and execution management
- Maintains a strong focus on traceability, quality, compliance, and audit readiness
- Communicates effectively across functions, cultures, and time zones
- Applies disciplined engineering judgment while driving practical process improvements
- Demonstrates accountability for delivery, risk management, and technical quality
Travel
- Occasional international travel may be required to support engineering collaboration, integration activities, customer engagements, certification events, audits, and milestone reviews
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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