Job DescriptionWe are looking for a self-motivated engineering leader to join our Countermeasures and Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) business area as a Chief Engineer on cutting edge, next generation EO/IR systems.
As a Chief Engineer on a project or product family, you are the technical conscience of the program, ensuring the system(s), product(s), and service(s) being developed and delivered are viable, fit for purpose, and will satisfy customer needs, product/system requirements, and the mission and/or application. The Chief Engineer is the primary owner of the technical solution and the technical interface to Program, Engineering, Functional and Executive leadership.
The Role: As an EO/IR Chief Engineer, you will:
- Understand requirements, missions, use cases, and constraints
- Define the technical solution, viability, and adequacy
- Lead system architecture design and optimization activities, trades and analyses
- Ensure system design and implementation meet technical requirements and customer / mission needs within allocated engineering cost & schedule
- Ensure system design is realizable, maintainable, supportable, and testable
- Drive technical risk and opportunity definition, identification, and mitigation/realization
- Be the technical interface to our customer, Program Management Office, and executive leadership
- Collaborate with our FAST Labs R&D organization to plan and transition new technologies into the business area
Who you are:- Collaborative: You love working with a team to realize innovative solutions to complex problem
- Customer-Oriented: You're always anticipating your customer's needs and working to exceed their expectations
- Innovative: You are always looking for ways to do things better and faster
Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This position will require you to be onsite in Manchester, NH and/or Merrimack, NH.
Required Skills and Education- Bachelors Degree (or equivalent experience in a relevant field) with a minimum work experience of:
- 12+ years with BS
- 10+ years with MS/PhD
- Possess an active US Government Secret (or higher) security clearance, SCI eligible
- Minimum 10 years of technical experience with EO/IR systems such as passive sensors, precision pointing devices, lasers, and their associated concepts
- Expert in effectively documenting, communicating, leading and working with a team on designs, results, reports, and presentations
Preferred Skills and Education- 10+ years of experience as an engineering leader in the development of EO/IR systems
- Experience with technical performance measurements
- odel based systems engineering experience with tools such as MagicDraw
- Active US Government Top Secret security clearance
- Expertise in System Architectures
- Experience performing systems engineering activities across the development cycle (analysis/decomposition/derivation/allocation of requirements, system modeling & simulation, system design & development, system integration & test) through production
- Experience developing viable concept solutions, identifying and tracking technical risks, and leading technical teams on complex programs
