2027 Aerospace Engineer (Weapons) - Wilmington, MA

About the job

About the Entry Level Role

As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities.

Who We Are

Textron Systems serves defense and commercial customers with the combined expertise of its family of brands: Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, Lycoming Engines and ATAC. These segments offer specialized products and services that fall into several capability areas: Air; Land; Sea; Propulsion; Weapon Systems; Electronic Systems; and Test, Training & Simulation. We tap into these capabilities to deliver exceptional solutions, including product development and manufacturing, training, operations and support.

All efforts are backed by the strength of our parent company — Textron Inc. — which includes prominent brands such as Bell, Cessna and Beechcraft. Drawing from our diverse teams of experts and harnessing the unlimited power of teamwork, we put tomorrow’s technology in the world’s hands today.

Learn more about our products and history at TextronSystems.com.

About This Role

We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:

• Providing engineering support on both next generation technologies and proven platforms that support and protect our deployed warfighter

• Participating in development of new products across all phases of the hardware design lifecycle from concept development to test and evaluation concepts

• Supporting hands-on ground and flight test events through test planning, test execution, and data reduction in a dynamic environment

• Working with multidisciplinary systems and accomplishing tasks that cover a wide range of design activities on air, sea, and/or land vehicles

• Conducting in-depth structural, stability and control, and aerodynamic analysis

• Using, updating, and writing aircraft performance simulation and predictive tools

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or have completed a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering or a related field

• Bachelor’s OR Masters in Aerospace OR Mechanical Engineering

• Ability to obtain security clearance

• Experience in using, updating, and writing code in MATLAB or related software language

• Willingness to apply aerospace principles, theories, and concepts

Why Build Your Career at Textron

Textron offers a supportive workplace where employees are encouraged to grow, contribute, and innovate.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive compensation

• Day-one health and wellness benefits

• Retirement savings options

• Tuition reimbursement

• Alternative work schedules at select locations

• Relocation assistance for eligible candidates

About Textron

Textron is a global Fortune 500 company with a diverse portfolio of industry leading brands, including Bell, Beechcraft, Cessna, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems. We foster a culture where curiosity is encouraged, ideas are valued, and innovation drives real-world solutions.

Join Textron and build a career where your work makes an impact, your ideas are valued, and your growth is supported.