Program Chief Engineer, RSX (Remote considered)

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

• Mission-Driven Problem Solvers – The problems in missile defense demand ingenuity. We want engineers who approach challenges with curiosity, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, and stay focused on delivering the best solution for the mission.
• Total Ownership – We seek engineers who take full responsibility for delivering flight-ready work while recognizing that no one succeeds alone. The best engineers make their teammates better, knowing that complementary skills create force multiplication and drive mission success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as the technical authority for the RSX product, owning the system architecture, requirements, technical baseline, and verification strategy.
• Define and maintain the system’s technical configuration, ensuring all design changes follow disciplined evaluation and protect system integrity.
• Lead technical decision making across propulsion, avionics, structures, mechanisms, GNC, software, materials, manufacturing engineering, and integration.
• Coordinate closely with systems engineering to maintain requirements traceability, ICDs, architecture, and verification planning.
• Partner with mission assurance to evaluate reliability, safety, and readiness, ensuring technical decisions reflect disciplined risk assessment.
• Work as a peer leader with project management, protecting technical integrity while ensuring realistic schedule and resource alignment.
• Lead technical reviews (architecture, design, integration, verification planning, readiness reviews) and ensure technical artifacts are complete, defensible, and configuration controlled.
• Guide cross discipline engineering teams to ensure development, integration, and test work remains aligned with the technical baseline and long‐term mission needs.
• Resolve cross functional technical issues, adjudicate design trades, and maintain system level coherence across fast paced development cycles.
• Represent the technical state of RSX product to executive leadership, external stakeholders, and government customers, ensuring clarity on risk, maturity, and technical readiness.
• Mentor engineering discipline leads and help grow Long Wall’s technical foundations by establishing standards, processes, and review discipline.
• Support expansion of chief engineering into a fully staffed technical authority function as the company scales across future product lines.

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