Chief Engineer Systems

Role summary

Systems engineering and delivery

• Evaluate customer requirements for platform impacts, risks, cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Contribute to product requirements and review proposals, specifications, and Interface Control Documents.
• Help define system requirements and product or subsystem specifications.
• Support proposal designs, cost estimates, and technical responses with resource inputs.
• Ensure integration satisfies performance, delivery, budget, and cost targets.
• Review change proposals and deviation requests, and maintain system configuration baselines.

Leadership and communication

• Mentor engineering personnel and help develop their technical and leadership skills.
• Resolve technical issues with program managers and customer leads.
• Create requirements documents, high-level design specifications, and test plans.
• Prepare and present project briefings and design reviews to internal and external customers.
• Coordinate priorities and cross-functional issues with senior leadership and other departments.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field.
• 15 years of engineering design or development experience.
• 3 years of project management experience; PMP or CAPM certification is a plus.
• Experience integrating platform capabilities with requirements flow-down to lower-level systems.
• Experience planning project schedule, budget, and resource estimates.

Desired qualifications

• Master's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent.
• Aerospace or defense design/development experience; UAV or military aviation experience preferred.
• Cross-disciplinary system architecture and integration experience.
• Technical expertise may include avionics, sensors, RF links, SIGINT, EO/IR, GPS navigation, propulsion, or OCONUS military operations.
• Interest in Model-Based Engineering tools; strong troubleshooting, communication, presentation, and people-development skills.

Work environment and travel

• Works in office and manufacturing environments and regularly walks around the facility to coordinate work.
• Domestic U.S. travel required up to 25%.

Compensation

• Annual salary range is $170,000–$272,000.
• Offer decisions consider location, responsibilities, experience, education, training, and skills.

Additional role facts

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, a 9/80 work schedule, and paid holiday shutdown.