Avionic System Engineer

Company overview

Civitanavi Systems is a leading player in the design, development and manufacture of high-tech solutions of Navigation, Control and Stabilization Systems, for several applications, in Aerospace Defense and Industrial sectors. The application of proprietary methods and technologies, based on FOG (Fiber Optic Gyroscope) and MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology, enables the company to best meet the specific needs of its customers. 

Founded as a start-up in 2012 in Italy and recognized as an innovative SME in 2017, Civitanavi has joined the Honeywell Group as of August 2025.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Mid-Senior Avionic System Engineer to provide technical leadership for the architecture, development, integration, and verification of an integrated, high-integrity avionics platform combining redundant computing resources, navigation functions, and application-hosting capabilities.

Main tasks will be the analysis of customer requirements, the generation of the system architecture and the set of formal system requirements, the definition of the applicable methods for the requirements validation, the  specification of the procedures required to verify the design, the support for the proper installation of the product into the target platform and the overall coordination of the system development, integration and qualification/certification activities, together with the continuous relationship with the customer for all technical aspects.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Lead the definition and evolution of fault-tolerant, fail-operational and redundant avionics architectures, including processing lanes, power domains, sensing resources, cross-lane communication, voting, monitoring, synchronization, reconfiguration, and degraded operating modes.
• Derive, allocate, and maintain system and subsystem requirements across hardware, software, navigation, Flight Control Systems, platform interfaces, and hosted applications, ensuring end-to-end traceability throughout the development lifecycle.
• Oversee integration, testing, and performance analysis of avionics platform, ensuring compliance with ARP4754A, ARP4761 (safety assessment) and qualification standards (DO-160, MIL-STD-810/461).
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and external stakeholders during design, implementation, integration, troubleshooting, qualification, and flight-test preparation, acting as a technical focal point for system-level decisions.
• Support safety and reliability activities such as FHA, PSSA/SSA, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, common-cause analysis, and failure-containment assessments, translating results into architecture and verification requirements.