About this role
✈️ Technical Manager | AI, Software & Systems Engineering
📍 Tucson, AZ | Onsite | 9/80 Schedule Available
Build the Technology Behind the Future of Flight
AI, computer vision, advanced imaging, and intelligent sensing are creating new possibilities for aviation. We're looking for someone who wants to turn those possibilities into real technology.
Universal Avionics is looking for a Technical Manager, AI, Software & Systems Engineering to bring together highly specialized engineering teams across AI/ML, computer vision, image processing, sensing, software, and systems engineering.
This role sits where emerging technology meets engineering execution. You'll connect the disciplines, guide technical decisions, solve complex integration challenges, and help move advanced ideas from concept toward real-world airborne products.
If you're excited by what AI and intelligent systems could make possible in flight, this is where you get to help build it.
What You'll Do
• Drive technical direction across AI/ML, software, systems engineering, computer vision, imaging, and sensing
• Connect engineers and specialists across disciplines to solve complex technical problems
• Guide architecture, integration, and technical tradeoffs
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for future product capabilities
• Lead technical and design reviews
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and integration challenges early
• Connect AI, software, sensors, hardware, interfaces, and system requirements
• Partner with Program Management and engineering leadership to move technology from concept through development, verification, integration, and delivery
What You Bring
• Strong practical experience with AI/ML and modern intelligent systems
• Experience with computer vision, neural networks, image processing, sensing, video analytics, object detection, tracking, or related technologies
• Strong software and systems engineering knowledge
• Experience solving complex multidisciplinary technical problems
• Strong architecture, integration, and technical decision-making skills
• Experience leading technical teams, programs, products, or complex engineering initiatives
• Curiosity about emerging technology and a track record of learning and applying new capabilities
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
• Advanced technical degree preferred
• Aviation, avionics, aircraft systems, safety-critical product, or certification experience is a plus
What We Stand For
How we build matters just as much as what we build.
✨We Grow Together Invest in people. Share knowledge. Help each other grow.
✨Innovation Stay curious. Challenge assumptions. Test, learn, and find better ways to solve problems.
✨Make It Happen Take ownership. Move with urgency. Follow through.
✨Excellence Hold a high standard for quality, accountability, and impact.
Why Universal Avionics?
For more than 40 years, Universal Avionics has been solving hard problems in aviation.
Today, we're building the next version of UA. We're evolving how we work and how we use technology so we can move faster, innovate more boldly, and build what aviation needs next.
Benefits & Perks
Universal Avionics offers a competitive total rewards package designed to support our employees and their families, including:
Universal Avionics offers a competitive total rewards package designed to support our employees and their families, including:
Benefits begin on your first day as a full-time employee.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with safe harbor match within 60 days
• 9/80 work schedule option
• Every other Friday off
• Vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Wellness and employee assistance programs
• And more
✨ Bring What You Know. Help Us Discover What's Next.
Join Universal Avionics and help build the technology shaping the future of flight.
Universal Avionics' products and technology are subject to U.S. export laws and regulations, including ITAR and EAR requirements. Employment eligibility may depend on applicable export-control requirements.