Vice President of Engineering
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- Serve as the senior engineering authority across the Space, Cyber and Directed Energy Segment portfolio
- Establish engineering standards, technical review processes, and development rigor for services and product organizations
- Align technical execution with customer mission requirements, affordability targets, schedules, and product strategy
- Drive engineering best practices across systems engineering, software, hardware, integration, testing, cybersecurity, reliability, and manufacturing readiness
- Lead independent technical assessments and support executive decisions on technical risk, investments, and program execution
- Transition bespoke engineering efforts into scalable, repeatable product solutions
- Promote modular architectures, common product frameworks, reuse strategies, and product commonality
- Partner with manufacturing and operations to improve producibility, reliability, and lifecycle affordability
- Partner with the CTO to implement enterprise engineering strategies, processes, tools, governance, digital engineering, and MBSE
- Support workforce planning, hiring strategies, succession planning, capability development, and future Chief Engineer structures
- Collaborate with business unit leaders, program management, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, growth, security, and contracts
- Support customer engagements, technical roadmap discussions, milestone reviews, strategic captures, program reviews, investment reviews, and annual operating planning
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field required
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience in defense, aerospace, space, directed energy, RF systems, autonomous systems, or related national security sectors
- Demonstrated experience leading complex engineering organizations supporting development and production environments
- Strong background in systems engineering, product development, and transition to manufacturing
- Experience in high-growth, fast-paced technology organizations
- Ability to balance technical rigor with speed and execution urgency
- Experience collaborating across enterprise engineering and business leadership organizations
- Strong communication skills for engaging executives, customers, and technical teams
- Top Secret/SCI clearance or ability to obtain a clearance
- Experience supporting defense acquisition programs, rapid prototyping, and productized defense systems preferred
- Familiarity with digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, and modern product development environments preferred
- Experience scaling engineering organizations following acquisition or integration activities preferred
- Background transitioning products from R&D into operational deployment and production scale-up preferred
- Must qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR/EAR or be eligible for an export license
- Some positions require current U.S. citizenship due to contract requirements
Core Competencies
Demonstrates extensive engineering leadership in defense and aerospace sectors, with a focus on systems engineering, product development, and transition to manufacturing. Proven ability to implement enterprise engineering strategies and collaborate across diverse organizational functions to drive technical execution and product solutions.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Engineering Leadership
- Systems Engineering
- Product Development
- Digital Engineering
- Top Secret/SCI Clearance
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Systems Engineering
- Product Development
- Technical Review Processes
- Cybersecurity
- Reliability Engineering
- Manufacturing Readiness
- Model-Based Systems Engineering
- Rapid Prototyping
- Transition to Manufacturing
- RF Systems
Soft Skills
- Strong Communication Skills
- Collaboration
- Leadership
Certifications & Qualifications
- Top Secret/SCI Clearance
- U.S. Person Under ITAR/EAR
Industry Keywords
- Defense
- Aerospace
- Space
- Directed Energy
- National Security
- Autonomous Systems
- Acquisition Programs
- Operational Deployment
- Production Scale-Up
- Fast-Paced Technology Organizations
Tools & Technologies
- Digital Engineering Tools
- Common Product Frameworks
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