The Chief Engineer will lead the development of sensory and perception systems at Epirus, managing product roadmaps, generating requirements, overseeing risk management, and coordinating proposals while contributing to technical marketing and public relations. A blend of technical expertise and leadership in the defense industry is essential.
About Epirus
Responsibilities:
Preferred Skills and Experience:
Epirus is a high-growth technology company dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. Epirus' flagship product, Leonidas, is a software-defined system built using intelligent power management techniques which allow power-hungry systems to do more with less.
Job Summary: this is an exciting role in a growing company. The ideal candidate for the position is someone who has both deep technical and leadership experience, with leadership in a startup being a bonus. This Chief Engineer role will lead the sensors, sensing, and perception work at Epirus. This role will report to the Chief Technology Officer and will work with a cross-functional team in order to manage the conception, designing, building, testing, marketing, selling, and sustaining Epirus systems product line.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, develop, and realize the strategic product roadmap for the Epirus perception systems and future system product lines.
- Generate Product Requirements for future systems, considering cost, anticipated customer needs, and manufacturability.
- Lead a robust risk and opportunity management process.
- Contribute to proposal coordination across departments to ensure successful customer negotiations, compliant proposal structure, incorporation of win themes, competitive intelligence, and pricing of the proposals to win.
- Responsible for providing technical product marketing direction and training related to products.
- Contribute and where appropriate manage market technical analyst relations and customer feedback council relations.
- Contribute to public speaking, public affairs, and government relations as directed by the CEO and CTO.
- Lead, develop, and realize the strategic product roadmap for the Epirus perception systems and future system product lines.
- Generate Product Requirements for future systems, considering cost, anticipated customer needs, and manufacturability.
- Lead a robust risk and opportunity management process.
- Contribute to proposal coordination across departments to ensure successful customer negotiations, compliant proposal structure, incorporation of win themes, competitive intelligence, and pricing of the proposals to win.
- Responsible for providing technical product marketing direction and training related to products.
- Contribute and where appropriate manage market technical analyst relations and customer feedback council relations.
- Contribute to public speaking, public affairs, and government relations as directed by the CEO and CTO.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics.
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- 5 years in sensing systems and perception with deep practical experience
- 10+ years of combined experience and leadership within product engineering, product management, and systems engineering.
- Experience with machine learning / AI and its interaction with perception systems.
- Focused on achieving business objectives, creative problem solving, and employing a growth-mindset, while defining and supporting a responsible, strategic, compliant and ethical approach to business challenges.
- A strong passion to learn new things
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
At Epirus, you’ll work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, “impossible” is just a challenge. We're a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions. Join us and rewrite the rules.
As required by the Equal Pay Transparency Act, Epirus provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.
For the state of California only, the range of starting pay for this role is:
$238,900—$338,000 USD
Epirus Torrance, California, USA Office
Our company is located in Torrance, just off of the 405. We moved into our new 100,000+ square foot facility in November 2021 and love calling it home.
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