Systems Engineer - IMA

Systems Engineer - IMA

Location: Remote

Rate: up to £80 ph Umbrella

Duration: 6 months

Role duties:

Define and maintain the Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) system architecture, ensuring alignment with aircraft-level requirements, modularity principles, and partitioning concepts (e.g., ARINC 653).

Lead integration of applications onto the IMA platform, ensuring proper resource allocation (CPU, memory, I/O), configuration of partitions, and compliance with platform constraints.

Support and contribute to certification processes (e.g., DO-178C, DO-297, DO-254 as applicable), including preparation of certification artifacts, involvement in audits, and ensuring traceability and verification compliance.

Ensure compliance with relevant avionics standards and manage system interfaces (e.g., AFDX/ARINC 664, ARINC 653 services), including coordination with stakeholders across disciplines.

Act as a technical focal point for IMA-related topics, supporting design reviews, resolving integration issues, and guiding teams on best practices for IMA system architecture and platform integration.

Candidate profile

Ideally who have done this work before with another OEM. For the certification activity,

Support from someone who has certified an Open IMA platform with one of the major certification authorities (FAA, EASA).

Location: Remote

Rate: up to £80 ph Umbrella

Duration: 6 months

Role duties:

Define and maintain the Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) system architecture, ensuring alignment with aircraft-level requirements, modularity principles, and partitioning concepts (e.g., ARINC 653).

Lead integration of applications onto the IMA platform, ensuring proper resource allocation (CPU, memory, I/O), configuration of partitions, and compliance with platform constraints.

Support and contribute to certification processes (e.g., DO-178C, DO-297, DO-254 as applicable), including preparation of certification artifacts, involvement in audits, and ensuring traceability and verification compliance.

Ensure compliance with relevant avionics standards and manage system interfaces (e.g., AFDX/ARINC 664, ARINC 653 services), including coordination with stakeholders across disciplines.

Act as a technical focal poin...