Sr. Manager of Flight Software Engineering

Position Summary

Lead a team of 10-15 embedded software engineers through the complete software development lifecycle for the 300-product line spacecraft, providing strategic technical direction and ensuring delivery excellence across the portfolio. The 300-product line comprises spacecraft designed for proliferated low-earth orbit (LEO) constellations, featuring multiple satellites launched and operated together for military and commercial applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership and Resource Management
  Provide technical direction and oversight for embedded flight software development across multiple concurrent spacecraft programs for the 300 product line. Plan, allocate, and monitor human resources to ensure efficient execution of flight software development for current programs; including technical scoping of work for the team’s sprint cycles in alignment with program needs.

• Collaborate with the right stakeholders, including SW Chief Engineers to perform root cause corrective actions on engineering investigations to deliver a robust product.

• Mentor and develop team members to build technical capabilities and leadership skills

• Capacity Planning
  Support product development, programs, IRAD (Internal Research and Development), and new business pursuits for the 300-product line. Provide supply and demand forecasts for functions requiring applicable support. Balance workload across the team to optimize productivity and prevent resource constraints.

• Budget Management
  Serve as Cost Account Manager (CAM) with responsibility for team budget oversight. Collaborate with Finance monthly to monitor expenditures, forecast costs, and ensure financial targets are met.

• Monitoring and Reporting
  Deliver executive-level briefings to management that clearly communicate overall status, schedule progress, issue identification with resolution action plans, and financial adherence to budgets. Maintain transparent communication channels with stakeholders across the organization.

• Product Line Leadership
  Identify and recommend technology development opportunities aligned with future business forecasts and market trends. Drive process improvement initiatives for continuous improvement and synergies with other product lines and teams. Contribute to strategic planning for the 300-product line evolution.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or another engineering or STEM discipline

• Minimum of 15 years engineering experience including 5 years as a manager or in a lead role with demonstrated capabilities in project management

• Previous experience in real time embedded software development in the aerospace industry

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in software development and production, dynamics and control analysis and design

• Recent relevant experience operating in SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework

• Worked on satellite software development from inception to launch

• Experience with large-scale satellite software development projects

• Experience with CMMI-3

Pay Range

The base pay for this position within California is: $163,000.00 - $271,000.00 annually.

Benefits

• Paid time off

• Health and welfare insurance

• 401(k)