Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional Integrated Product Teams responsible for the design, development, verification, qualification, and production of spacecraft subsystems and mission-critical hardware.
• Own technical execution, schedule performance, risk mitigation, and cost objectives throughout the program lifecycle.
• Establish and manage engineering priorities, ensuring alignment between customer requirements, technical performance, and business objectives.
• Drive systems engineering activities, including requirements management, architecture development, interface definition, trade studies, verification planning, and validation execution.
• Lead technical decision-making and design reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRR, and production readiness reviews.
• Ensure all products meet performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, and launch-readiness requirements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Coordinate activities across electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, integration & test, quality, procurement, and program management organizations.
• Serve as the primary engineering focal point for internal stakeholders, customers, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Support supplier selection, technical evaluations, and subcontractor performance management.
• Drive issue resolution across technical, schedule, supply chain, and manufacturing domains.
• Business Development & Customer Engagement
• Support proposal development efforts, including technical volumes, solution architectures, ROM estimates, risk assessments, and resource planning.
• Contribute to white papers, RFIs, RFP responses, customer presentations, and technical strategy discussions.
• Participate in customer reviews, technical interchange meetings, and program status briefings.
• Team Development & Continuous Improvement
• Mentor and develop engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead process improvement initiatives that increase engineering efficiency, product quality, and program execution effectiveness.
• Promote knowledge sharing and engineering best practices throughout the organization.

Skills

• Systems Engineer
• Spacecraft
• Hardware
• Embedded
• DOORS
• Jira
• Agile

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Exceptional technical and organizational leadership.
• Ability to influence teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong decision-making skills in fast-paced development environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with customers and executive leadership.
• High attention to detail and ownership mentality.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with schedule and business objectives.
• Proven capability managing multiple competing priorities while maintaining product quality and team effectiveness.