Aerospace lighting, audio, and cabin-management systems for business and commercial aircraft
Heads Up Technologies designs and manufactures certified in-flight systems for cockpit and cabin environments—lighting, audio, content management, and safety equipment. The tech stack is deeply embedded: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, FPGA, QNX, ARM, Verilog, and DO-178C compliance tooling signal a hardware-centric, safety-critical operation. Active migration from Subversion to Git/GitHub and new CI/CD infrastructure suggest modernization of development workflows, while hiring velocity skews heavily toward engineering and manufacturing with a balanced junior-to-senior mix—consistent with scaling next-generation cabin systems and sustaining legacy product lines.
Heads Up Technologies is a privately held aerospace supplier founded in 1985 and based in Addison, Texas. Operating as part of the Heads Up Technologies Group (which includes STG Aerospace and ALTO Aviation), the company serves OEM and aftermarket channels across business and commercial aviation. Core competencies span custom lighting design, audio systems, cabin-management platforms, and safety solutions—all engineered for certification under FAA, EASA, and AS9100 standards. The 201–500-person operation balances new-product development (next-generation business-jet cabin systems) against sustaining engineering for in-service fleets, with particular focus on component obsolescence management, supply-chain traceability, and production-test efficiency.
SolidWorks, AutoCAD, OrCAD Capture, Allegro PCB Designer, FPGA, QNX, ARM, Xilinx Vivado, Verilog, Visual Studio, and DO-178C compliance tools. Hardware-in-the-loop and embedded Linux support avionics testing.
Active projects include next-generation business-jet cabin systems (IFE/CMS), hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure, Git/GitHub migration, CI/CD workflows, component obsolescence management, and sustaining engineering for in-service product lines.
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