Chief Engineer – Electrical / FPGA / Firmware

San Diego

Our exciting Space client are looking for a Chief Engineer to provide technical leadership and product development expertise and oversee the development of a broad portfolio of defense and space systems.

The ideal candidate will have experience leading the development of aerospace and defense products through the full product development lifecycle, as well as a broad understanding of the application of these products into defense and space systems.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and product development subject matter expertise to advance their defense and space systems products.
• Evaluate existing designs, perform product gap assessments, and make recommendations for future product designs, features, capabilities, and upgrades.
• Support project planning, including the development of cost, schedule, and technical baselines for product development activities.
• Support the development of product requirements, specifications, and identification of applicable standards.
• Oversee product design, development, manufacturing, assembly, integration, test, verification, validation, and certification activities.
• Provide support for production, delivery, and post-delivery customer operations.
• Develop clear solutions, provide in-depth technical assessments, and proactively identify, address, and resolve issues and risks to drive risk-informed decision-making and product lifecycle sustainability.
• Identify, capture, and apply lessons learned in support of continuous process improvement.
• Evaluate and produce products of a technical nature using technical rigor, adequacy, completeness, and appropriate application of the specialty engineering disciplines as standard processes.
• Travel: 10-20% for an on-site candidate; up to 25% for remote candidate

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science, or equivalent technical discipline.
• 15+ years of experience working in the aerospace and defense industry.
• 10+ years of experience in product design, development and/or manufacturing.
• Ability to demonstrate engineering principles and concepts.
• Expertise with requirements development and analysis and the development of systems engineering-related documents including requirements/specifications, interface control documents, and validation & verification plans.

Preferences:

• 10+ years of program or technical leadership experience.
• 10+ years of experience in architecture/requirements definition/analysis, acquisitions, engineering/design, fielding/integration, and verification or analysis.
• Demonstrated product development process improvement experience.
• Proficiency in various enterprise tools, including enterprise resource planning, product data management, product lifecycle management, quality management, manufacturing resource planning, and engineering design and analysis
• Knowledge of Digital Engineering (DE) or Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches and applications (i.e., SparxEA, Cameo, etc.).