Project Engineer Payload Integration

Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to develop expertise and become the subject matter expert and technological champion in the relevant capabilities.
• Understanding of change management and manufacturing principles to maintain a product portfolio.
• Transitions high TRL demonstrated payloads into mature payload solutions for long-term mission capabilities across GA-ASI platforms.
• Mature prototype level payloads through manufacturable Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) with the ability to scale to high-rate production.
• Leads diverse multi-function engineering teams, meeting critical program milestones, and successfully executing programs within the defined cost and schedule.
• Represents programs as the face of engineering, ensuring consistent and appropriate messaging to internal and external stakeholders.
• Supports engineering estimates and proposals during business development and shaping activities.
• Develops program plans, estimates, schedules, and execute programs to ensure programmatic and technical success.
• Performs system analysis, trade studies, author technical white papers, and generate customer technical data packages.
• Completes, documents, and presents System Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), and Critical Design Reviews (CDR).
• Represents company at technical reviews, customer meetings, and system level integrations.
• Supports mission architecture implementations and designs.
• Supports payload compatibility and enhancement for initiatives such as Open Architectures (OMS, FACE, CESMO, etc.), Autonomy & Artificial Intelligence, fusion, track management, and other interoperability capabilities.
• Supports the development of test plans and manage the integration, verification, and validation of new capabilities and technologies.
• Supports the development of business/strategic objectives and system concept-of-operations.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors degree, Masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; nine or more years of experience with a Bachelors degree, seven or more years of experience with a Masters degree, or four or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Proven technical expertise in radar or RF systems, with experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts.
• Prior experience in project engineering, systems integration, and technical execution of complex hardware/software products.
• Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to engage across technical teams, leadership, and customers.
• Familiarity with UAS platforms (e.g., MQ-9, MQ-1, Avenger) and their interfaces is preferred.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Multi-Mode Radars, EO/IR Systems, IRST, EW Systems, Countermeasures, Tactical Datalinks, Open Standards (OMS, FACE, STANAG), Modeling & Simulation.
• Background in product management, proposal development, and DoD acquisition processes.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DoD security clearance required. (TS/SCI highly desired)