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Manage subcontract sourcing, negotiation, award, administration and closeout for F-35 suppliers. Monitor supplier cost, schedule, technical and quality performance, ensure FAR/DFARS compliance, drive cost reduction and continuous improvement, and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders.

Designs, integrates, tests, and validates navigation subsystems for advanced aircraft, weapons, and autonomous platforms. Responsibilities include lab and flight testing, anomaly resolution, navigation solution trade studies, requirements development, supplier coordination, simulation integration, interface definition, and technical risk and cost analysis. The role requires GPS and inertial sensor knowledge and eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance and Special Program Access.

Leads capture efforts for new opportunities, recompetes, and task-order business. Develops capture plans, technical and business strategies, competitive assessments, price-to-win analyses, teaming approaches, and bid proposals. Manages customer and partner relationships, opportunity shaping and qualification, business cases, threat mitigation, and government-relations collaboration. Requires federal agency experience, DoD or IC space-domain expertise, and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. The role is based in Redondo Beach, California, or Dulles, Virginia, with 25% travel.

Leads business development and capture strategy for advanced optical and RF communications programs across defense, national security, commercial, and international markets. Manages pipelines, customer engagement, opportunity qualification, proposals, investment shaping, competitive intelligence, and cross-functional pursuit teams. Builds senior government and industry relationships, represents the company at events, mentors BD professionals, and ensures compliance with acquisition processes and regulations.

Leads end-to-end systems verification and qualification testing for inertial, GPS, and avionics products. Develops test requirements, plans, procedures, readiness reviews, test data, and reports; manages test campaigns, equipment, anomalies, and Failure Review Boards. Leads cross-functional hardware, software, and systems engineering teams, conducts root-cause analysis, and serves as the technical point of contact during test events. The role is onsite in Woodland Hills, California, with occasional offsite testing.

Leads human resources strategy for an aerospace division, advising senior executives and managing HR Business Partners. Oversees talent management, succession planning, employee relations, performance management, total rewards, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, retention, employee surveys, and human capital initiatives. Uses workforce data and analytics to identify challenges and drive business outcomes while leading complex projects, change management, and cross-functional collaboration.

Develop and integrate satellite ground-system capabilities across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, testing, and operational delivery. Translate customer needs into software-system artifacts, support Agile planning and product increments, use MBSE/Cameo/SysML models, automate tests, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. Provide space-vehicle command-and-control expertise, prepare milestones and briefings, and operate independently in a fast-paced environment requiring active SCI or Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Lead pricing and cost estimating for production proposals on a restricted aerospace program. Responsibilities include developing estimates, cost and performance analyses, basis-of-estimate documentation, ROMs, pricing models, regression analyses, proposal data files, and compliance certifications. The role supports negotiations, customer and government audits, fact finding, affordability initiatives, and process improvements while coordinating cross-functional teams and communicating cost risks to management.

Develop and integrate satellite ground-system capabilities across the full systems-engineering lifecycle. Define requirements, interfaces, architectures, use cases, protocols, schemas, and verification plans using MBSE, Cameo, and SysML. Participate in Agile ceremonies, testing, integration, milestone reviews, customer briefings, and control boards. Support command-and-control and mission-management software while collaborating with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Develop and integrate embedded software for advanced aerospace and tactical systems. Responsibilities include full SDLC participation, C/C++ development, software debugging and testing, peer reviews, requirements implementation, technology evaluation, and collaboration with systems, hardware, and integration teams in an Agile environment. The role is onsite in El Segundo, California, requires a Secret clearance at start, and involves approximately 10% travel.