Chief Engineer

About the role

As part of our Electronic Combat Solutions Systems Engineering team, you'll join a diverse group of driven professionals who architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable our service men and women to execute their missions and return home safely. We are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Systems Engineering Management team in the Electronic Combat Solutions business area as a Chief Engineer. As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you will be the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The CE is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Leads (system) architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses
• Ensures system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule
• Ensures system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable and testable
• Drives technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization
• Serves as technical interface to Customer, PMO and executive leadership
• Understands requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints
• Manages technical risks and issues including impact assessment, mitigation, minimization and closure plans

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with minimum work experience of: 10+ Years with BS, 8+ Years with MS, 6+ Years with PhD
• Possess an Active US Government security clearance (with ability to possess TS)
• Experience leading development of Electronic Warfare, RADAR, Communications, and/or Missile systems
• Experience with EW and/or Radar and Missile Systems
• Technical leader for significant size team (Chief Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related engineering discipline and 10+ years of experience
• 5+ years of experience as a Chief Engineer or equivalent leading development of Electronic Warfare systems
• Formal Root Cause and Corrective Action training or equivalent experience
• Model based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw
• Active United States security clearance, Top Secret, SCI Eligible
• Experience with Electronic Warfare systems and RADAR systems

Work schedule

This position requires you to be onsite full-time in either Totowa or Wayne, New Jersey. With a 9/80 schedule, you have every other Friday off.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $153,377 - $260,743. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Legal plan
• Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Applicable federal and state sick leave
• Company recognition program with monetary or non-monetary recognition awards
• Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics