Principal System Engineer

Job Description

The future is what you make it.

When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who are shaping what’s next for aviation.

Honeywell’s Anthem Integrated Flight Deck – The Future of Flight

Honeywell’s Anthem Integrated Flight Deck is the industry’s first cloud-connected, “always-on” Integrated Cockpit system. Built on a flexible, software-centric architecture, Anthem enables advanced communications, navigation, and surveillance capabilities across commercial, business, defense, general aviation, and the emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) markets.

Anthem represents a paradigm shift in avionics—combining connectivity, autonomy, and an intuitive pilot-machine interface to deliver safer, smarter, and more customizable flight operations.

It’s not just an upgrade — it’s the next era of flight.

As a Principal Systems Engineer – Next Generation Avionics, you will serve as a senior technical authority responsible for shaping system-level architectures, standards, and engineering strategy for highly complex, safety-critical avionics platforms. This role operates at an enterprise and program level, influencing long-term technical direction, product roadmaps, and cross-disciplinary execution.

You will partner with engineering leadership, program management, and business stakeholders to ensure architectural integrity, technical excellence, and successful delivery of current and next-generation avionics solutions.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a system-level architect to define, own, and govern end-to-end system architectures, interfaces, and technical standards
• Directly interface with external engineering leadership for customer pursuits and requirements
• Drive integration and certification strategies for complex avionics systems
• Influence and shape technology roadmaps, architectural evolution, and long-term product strategy
• Lead technical trade studies and risk mitigation for performance, safety, cost, and schedule drivers
• Provide technical oversight across hardware, software, systems, cybersecurity, and certification disciplines
• Mentor and coach senior and lead engineers, serving as a multiplier for systems engineering excellence

Qualifications

You Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Computer Science, or another STEM discipline
• 12+ years of systems engineering experience within complex, safety-critical systems (aerospace preferred)

We Value

• Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Engineering or related field
• Extensive experience with avionics systems, integrated flight decks, or complex embedded systems
• Ownership of platform or system-of-systems architectures and development lifecycles
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical authority or chief/principal engineer, including high proficiency of regulatory and certification compliance (e.g., DO-178, DO-254, ARP4754)
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance near-term program execution and long-term architecture

What’s in It for You

• Enterprise-scale technical impact across groundbreaking aviation platforms
• Influence on next-generation avionics architectures and autonomy-enabled systems
• Opportunities to shape long-term strategy and product direction
• Career growth at the highest levels of technical leadership

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization