Director, Engineering - Relocation Assistance Available

Qualified Candidates will engage in the following:

• Define and execute a comprehensive technical strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles.
• Lead the Strategic Advisory Board to ensure Technical Roadmaps are informed by strong customer and technical insight and aligned with long-term innovation goals.  The position also collaborates with adjacent functions and Product Lines to guide and facilitate R&D investment recommendations.
• Drive innovation via Senior Technical Team (Principal Engineers), and broader team.
• Scale the engineering organization across multi-disciplinary functions.
• Assign authority and responsibilities to the Engineering leadership team to execute the plan.
• Review and monitor plan execution, make appropriate adjustments, and resolve issues.
• Evaluate the feasibility of plans and make decisions to continue or discontinue projects or processes as appropriate.
• Establish team expectations and hold leadership team accountable for achieving goals.
• Oversee technical approach and deliverables meeting customer, company, quality, industry and regulatory standards and requirements.
• Focus on Engineering excellence and strategic capability.
• Guide the development and implementation of policies, procedures and documents.
• Forecast, obtain and manage personnel and resources.

Typical Knowledge and Experience:

Knowledgeable of UAS technology – particularly in component and sub-system trends to inform partnership and R&D opportunities; understands the competition – ranging from Group 1 through Group 5 UAS – with demonstrated, detailed knowledge of Group 2 and 3.

Knowledge in several UAS domains; including, but not limited to:

• subsystems (e.g., navigation, guidance and flight controls, communications, propulsion, avionics, hydraulic, electrical, and ground support),
• LRUs/components (e.g., multifunction displays, antennas, PCB/As, mechanisms, and computers/processors),
• payloads (e.g., EO/IR, SIGINT/ELINT, LIDAR, Radar/SAR, Electronic Warfare, Kinetics),
• loadable/non-loadable software (e.g., operational programs, inertial navigation programs, operational flight programs, operator interfaces, mission planning suites, payload data processing, exploitation, and dissemination suites, and diagnostic suites), and
• airframes and lifting devices (e.g. structure, materials strengths and properties, design criteria, loading conditions).

Knowledge of responsibilities and tasks performed by various engineering disciplines. Knowledge of the interaction between disciplines and how their product/processes affect one another and impact non-engineering processes.

Focus on decreasing time-to-market/time-to-capability deployment.  Create opportunities through guidance, coaching, and mentoring for component and subsystem development off-ramps to enable rapid system integration/deployment.

Sets high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goal attainment; tenaciously working to meet or exceed those goals while delivering maximum value per unit time.

Knowledge and understanding of phases of system development lifecycle including (requirements definition, system design, build/integrate, test and deployment).

Ability to determine the methods needed to accomplish goals (scale is important – lightweight versus complex), document processes, know how to organize people and activities, understand how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflows, identify opportunities for synergy and integration, and continually simplify complex processes to deliver outstanding Customer outcomes.

Knowledge of product lifecycle, including manufacturing, deployment, modification, aging and continued service, and disposal.

Knowledge of engineering analysis (e.g. mechanical, electrical, avionics, design, circuit, systems, stress, structural, durability).

Deals effectively with others in challenging situations, uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict.

Education and Experience:

Typical experience: 10-15 years in an engineering classification with a Bachelor's degree or 8-13 years experience in an engineering classification with a Master's degree.

What You'll Bring:

• 10+ years of progressive technical leadership, with 5+ years in a senior role overseeing multiple engineering disciplines in aerospace or autonomous systems.
• Demonstrated experience taking a product from prototype to production, specifically with complex software-enabled hardware products.
• Experience across core engineering disciplines relevant t