Senior Project Engineer
$114k - $143kCubic
Business Unit: Cubic Defense Company Details: Job Details: Job Title: Senior Project Engineer - USA
Job Summary: Responsible for leading the technical execution and successful delivery of engineering projects, products, or workstreams of moderate to high complexity. Drives engineering solutions, aligns technical efforts with business objectives, and ensures delivery within scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.
Provides advanced technical leadership, oversight, and mentorship to engineering teams while serving as a key interface with internal and external customers. Operates in a fast-paced commercial product development environment supporting a defense-focused customer base. Works within matrixed Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and functionally aligned organizations. This position operates with minimal supervision, exercising significant independent judgment and decision-making authority related to technical scope, risk management, and engineering execution.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Cubic Pay Range:
$114,000.00 - $143,000.00 + benefits. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Worker Type: Employee We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.
Job Summary: Responsible for leading the technical execution and successful delivery of engineering projects, products, or workstreams of moderate to high complexity. Drives engineering solutions, aligns technical efforts with business objectives, and ensures delivery within scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.
Provides advanced technical leadership, oversight, and mentorship to engineering teams while serving as a key interface with internal and external customers. Operates in a fast-paced commercial product development environment supporting a defense-focused customer base. Works within matrixed Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and functionally aligned organizations. This position operates with minimal supervision, exercising significant independent judgment and decision-making authority related to technical scope, risk management, and engineering execution.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the maintenance and sustainment of existing products, driving upgrades and enhancements through established engineering development processes.
- Own and oversee the development and management of project schedules in Agile environments while ensuring alignment with traditional waterfall milestones.
- Partner with Product Managers to proactively resolve complex technical issues and inform product direction.
- Drive and facilitate the identification, definition, and documentation of technical issues, risks, and dependencies across the project team.
- Ensure delivery ownership of engineering solutions that meet committed scope, schedule, and performance objectives.
- Serve as a primary technical interface with customers (internal and external) on requirements, issue resolution, planning, and status updates.
- Lead and promote cross-team collaboration using tools such as Microsoft Teams to ensure alignment and transparency.
- Oversee and monitor product development activities and progress using tools such as Jira, ensuring accurate tracking and reporting.
- Coordinate and lead collaboration efforts with internal departments, customer representatives, and third-party suppliers to drive timely issue resolution.
- Collaborate strategically with functional engineering managers to forecast, secure, and optimize resources in support of customer needs.
- Lead troubleshooting efforts with customers and engineering teams to isolate root causes and deliver timely solutions or effective workarounds.
- Ensure comprehensive documentation of all technical issues from initial identification through troubleshooting, escalation, and resolution.
- Conduct advanced analysis and resolution of complex customer issues, driving escalation paths with Product Management and Engineering as needed.
- Provide timely, professional, and technically sound communication to customers, delivering both immediate workarounds and long-term solutions to complex problems.
Cubic Pay Range:
$114,000.00 - $143,000.00 + benefits. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Worker Type: Employee We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.
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