Chief Engineer (ON-SITE)
About the Role
Join our Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) Engineering team, a diverse group of driven professionals who architect, design, develop, build, integrate, test, and support products and systems that enable service members to execute their missions and return home safely. CEMA provides next-generation threat detection and countermeasure solutions to enhance mission survivability.
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 Chief Engineer is the system architect, the primary owner of the technical solution, and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional, and Executive leadership.
This position requires onsite work in New Hampshire for consistent in-person collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead system architecture to drive architectures for next-generation RF platforms.
- Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer/mission needs within allocated engineering cost and schedule.
- Ensure system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable, and testable.
- Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization.
- Serve as the technical interface to customers, PMO, and executive leadership, including understanding requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints.
- Assess and manage technical risks and issues, including impact assessment, mitigation, and closure plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or a combination of education and professional experience.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in the design, development, and integration of complex hardware/software-based systems (e.g., RF, embedded, communications, or control systems).
- Demonstrated success leading technical teams and overseeing full-life-cycle development and test activities.
- Ability to develop system architectures from concept through implementation.
- Proven experience capturing, documenting, and translating requirements for RF or related systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting technical information to varied audiences, including senior leadership and external customers.
- Ability to obtain a US Government security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a senior engineering leadership role (e.g., Chief Engineer, Program Lead) responsible for complex electronic or RF-centric programs.
- Experience with one or more of the following technology areas: RF transceivers, electronic warfare, radar, communications, missile/defense systems, or any high-performance RF-based platform.
- Hands-on experience with MBSE tools (e.g., DOORS, MagicDraw, or similar) for requirements management and architecture modeling.
- Experience coordinating multi-discipline software/firmware regression testing and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation.
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 and legal plan.
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and other types of leave, including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave.
- Employee recognition program with monetary or non-monetary awards.
- Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance.
- Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.