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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and owning technical baselines in complex aerospace or defense system development. Proficient in defining requirements, architecture, verification plans, and ensuring system integrity across various aerospace subsystems.
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Technical AuthoritySystem ArchitectureAerospace SubsystemsTechnical LeadershipRequirements Definition
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Hard Skills
System IntegrationTechnical Baseline ManagementVerification PlanningConfiguration ControlRequirements TraceabilityAnalytical SkillsMission Assurance PrinciplesDesign EvaluationTechnical DocumentationCross-Discipline Coordination
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationLeadershipMentoringProblem-SolvingTeam Collaboration
Industry Keywords
Aerospace EngineeringDefense SystemsFlight-Critical SystemsGovernment CustomersMilestone ReviewsTechnical Risk ManagementReliability EngineeringSafety PrinciplesIntegration CyclesMission Critical Environments
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as the technical authority for the Cyclops product, owning the system architecture, requirements, technical baseline, and verification strategy
- Define and maintain the system’s technical configuration, ensuring 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 with systems engineering on requirements traceability, ICDs, architecture, and verification planning
- Partner with mission assurance to evaluate reliability, safety, readiness, and technical risk
- Work as a peer leader with project management to protect technical integrity and align schedules and resources
- Lead architecture, design, integration, verification planning, and readiness reviews
- Guide cross-discipline engineering teams through development, integration, and test
- Resolve cross-functional technical issues, adjudicate design trades, and maintain system-level coherence
- Represent Cyclops’s technical state to executive leadership, external stakeholders, and government customers
- Mentor engineering discipline leads and establish technical standards, processes, and review discipline
- Support expansion of the chief engineering technical authority function across future product lines
Requirements
What you’ll need- US person status is required, including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or related engineering discipline
- 12+ years of experience in complex aerospace or defense system development, with significant ownership over system-level design, integration, or technical leadership
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and owning technical baselines in mission critical environments
- Experience supporting government customers, milestone reviews, and structured engineering documentation
- Deep technical fluency across aerospace subsystems, including structures, propulsion, avionics, mechanisms, GNC, software, and manufacturing
- Proven ability to define requirements, architecture, ICDs, verification plans, and configuration control structures
- Strong analytical foundation and ability to challenge designs, analyses, and technical assumptions
- Demonstrated capability to lead technical teams through ambiguity, rapid development, shifting priorities, and fast-paced integration cycles
- Excellent communication skills for briefing executive leadership, engineering teams, and government customers on technical status, risks, and decisions
- Strong understanding of reliability, safety, and mission assurance principles for flight-critical systems
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods
- Ability to use a computer for assignments and communicate effectively in person, telepresence, and phone
- Ability to travel between customer and company sites as required
Benefits
Comp & perks- Heavily employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Long Wall paid life insurance and LTD coverage
- 4% 401k match
- Student loan repayment assistance program
- Paid parental leave
- Family planning assistance program
- Long Wall paid financial wellness program
- Paid time off for non-exempt employees and flexible vacation policy for exempt employees
- Equity