Senior Engineering Manager – Mission Sensor Manager

Date Posted: 2026-01-20

Country: United States of America

Location: US-IA-CEDAR RAPIDS-182 ~ 1100 Cimmie Ave Ne ~ BLDG 182

Position Role Type: Onsite

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status: The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Security Clearance Type: DoD Clearance: Secret
• Security Clearance Status: Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

About the Role

Picture this: a Blackhawk helicopter soaring through the night sky, navigating treacherous terrain to deliver critical support to soldiers on the ground. Or a Chinook braving hostile environments to transport troops and essential supplies to the front lines. In these high-stakes moments, success hinges on the flawless integration of advanced mission sensors and weapons systems that provide crews with the precision, situational awareness, and reliability they need to perform under extreme conditions.

As a Mission Sensor Manager on our Weapons Systems Integration Team, you'll play a pivotal role in designing and integrating these cutting-edge technologies for rotary and fixed-wing platforms, ensuring mission readiness and operational excellence. Specifically, you will lead teams that develop the most sophisticated and trusted avionics systems in the world. Your leadership will ensure that our technology performs flawlessly in the most critical moments, enabling heroes to save lives.

Are you ready to join our team and make a difference where it truly matters?

Role Overview

Collins Aerospace is seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team of Systems and Software engineers on their quest to integrate modern mission sensor and weapons systems for the war fighter. This team works in a collaborative environment and performs activities including: requirements definition and analysis, design, development, integration, test, verification, validation, and certification of software products within our Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) and Flight2 Architectures.

The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of systems and software development practices, Agile development methodologies, military/commercial certification, and experience leading execution teams.

Product Summary

CAAS Management Solutions - Our signature products for Military Avionics and Helicopters as part of the Collins Integrated Avionics Systems, fielded on thousands of aircraft today, at this moment. Specific capabilities include FMS (Flight Management Systems), Performance Application, System Manager, Comm, Flight Director, and Flight Controls.

Please see the following links for more details: https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/helicopters/rotary-wing/common-avionics-architecture-system

What You Will Do

Technical direction: Candidate must be able to lead a team and apply sound engineering principles related to Avionics software development.

Project management: Candidate must be able to guide team members on the management of scope, schedule, and budget for engineering design activities. Candidate will be directly involved in project management and execution, including Earned Value and Risk Management.

Process management: Candidate must be able to guide team members on the utilization of design and development processes, military avionics certification, and ensure that the design activities are consistent with the product lifecycle development for new and existing products through internal guidance and adherence to external development processes outlined by our customers.

Bids and proposals: Candidate must be able to lead, review, and provide guidance to team members on bid and proposal activities, to include FAR Part 15 and TINA activities.

Personnel administration: Candidate must be able to make hiring decisions, performance assessment decisions, ensure management of personnel issues, and create a highly engaged and motivated team.

Travel: 10% travel as needed.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Experience in project engineering/project lead role, with cost and schedule responsibility and strong background in Earned Value Management

Qualifications We Prefer

• Adaptable and flexible to changes in assignments, responsibilities, and resources
• Highly self-motivated and capable of establishing a positive work environment
• Be a self-starter and have strong analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Dedicated to team success over individual success
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks while balancing priorities and schedules
• Ability to evaluate and report overall engineering performance to plan as appropriate
• Ability to analyze data and determine appropriate actions to correct program problems before they impact the overall program
• Generate and maintain staffing plans including recruiting, hiring and onboarding
• Ability to coach, mentor, and train other engineers
• Experience with Agile development method
• Experience with Model Based Development
• Experience with Ada programming language
• Experience with Atlassian suite of tools, including JIRA

Benefits

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

Additional Information

This role may be eligible for relocation.

Avionics delivers advanced cockpit displays, vision systems, and comprehensive digital solutions for global government, commercial and business aviation customers. We provide connectivity and managed data services to ensure safety and seamless communication for passengers, crews, and militaries, from aircraft and airports to air traffic management. Join us in creating solutions that connect the world, one flight at a time.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.

Compensation

Salary Range: $132,400 USD - $251,600 USD

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.