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Manages hardware and software configuration identification, change control, technical and configuration control boards, status accounting, audits, and document management for aerospace programs. Processes change packages and data releases through product lifecycle management tools, maintains configuration reports, supports configuration audits, and coordinates with program management and customers. The role requires configuration management standards knowledge, PLM software experience, and Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility.

Leads a 100+ person digital engineering organization developing mission-critical space electronics, including FPGA, ASIC, embedded hardware, circuit cards, and subsystems. Responsibilities include technical strategy, staffing, talent development, program execution, risk and performance management, proposals, customer engagement, technology roadmaps, and cross-functional delivery. The role also drives engineering excellence, innovation, digital transformation, and succession planning while supporting aerospace and defense programs.

Leads Sentinel-NIMS hardware deployment, integration, testing, configuration, release sequencing, and delivery. Coordinates cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and program teams; manages schedules, resources, risks, costs, contractual compliance, EVMS reporting, forecasts, and executive or customer briefings. Ensures technical requirements, sell-off criteria, and hardware delivery milestones are achieved while supporting program leadership and customer alignment.

Develops and executes comprehensive system integration and qualification tests for navigation systems and mission computers. Responsibilities include translating requirements into test solutions, authoring procedures and schedules, automating test campaigns with scripts, coordinating integrated testing, analyzing system performance using MATLAB, conducting technical reviews, and serving as the technical contact during test events. The role requires onsite work, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Leads the full systems engineering lifecycle from concept development and requirements definition through integration, verification, validation, and delivery. Develops V&V strategies, requirements traceability, interface control documents, system architectures, and CONOPS. Coordinates with test teams, suppliers, customers, and integrated product teams; supports design and readiness reviews; and presents technical briefings to leadership and customers.

Leads technical execution for Guidance, Navigation, and Control systems on the Sentinel program. Owns critical issues from identification through closure, directs root-cause investigations, resolves hardware and software problems, and coordinates IPTs, design reviews, MRBs, FRBs, testing, and customer interfaces. Provides technical recommendations affecting schedule, cost, risk, and performance while validating GNC capabilities against requirements. Requires extensive GNC engineering experience, active Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for SAP approval.

Performs program financial forecasting, reporting, cost and schedule risk analysis, funding assessments, estimates at completion, variance analysis, and audit support. The role develops financial plans, monitors receivables and payables, supports proposals and negotiations, and briefs financial results to business and executive leadership. It requires onsite work, an active Top Secret or SCI clearance, and collaboration across business, functional, and technical teams.

Leads a 10–15-person avionics engineering section while balancing people management with technical program responsibilities. Oversees hiring, development, performance, resource allocation, and urgent technical issues. Collaborates with program management and supports aircraft avionics solutions, IR&D activities, major programs, and capture efforts. Requires substantial engineering experience, avionics expertise, an active Secret clearance, and eligibility for special access programs.

Leads the Vanquish systems test program across laboratory, ground, and flight testing. Responsibilities include test planning, staffing, execution, reporting, risk and issue mitigation, schedule management, aircraft test modifications, resource forecasting, and coordination across engineering and test sites. The role provides program leadership, ensures mission objectives are met, manages cost and schedule performance, and supports flexible shifts, weekends, and holidays when required.

Design, develop, verify, and test guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for manned and unmanned aircraft. Build control laws, dynamic simulation models, autonomy functions, and hardware-in-the-loop environments. Analyze flight performance, stability, flying qualities, and test data; support flight testing and technical design reviews. The role requires experience with aircraft flight dynamics, control systems, MATLAB, Simulink, C/C++, Python, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance and SAP access.