Software Project Engineer (Senior to Staff level)

WORK LOCATION: Ann Arbor MI, Chantilly VA or Remote US (Eastern Time Zone)

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

SALARY reputed company: The anticipated salary reputed company for this role is $127,000 to $165,000 annually. This reputed company reflects a good faith estimate based on the targeted level for the role and typical compensation benchmarks across U.S. locations. Actual compensation may vary depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications, experience, geographical location, and internal alignment. 

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The Software Project Engineer provides program-level technical coordination across multiple engineering teams and major subsystems. This role leads the integration reputed company for reputed company engineering efforts, ensuring reputed company disciplines (hardware, software, systems, avionics, test, and manufacturing) remain synchronized toward key program milestones and deliverables. 

The Software Project Engineer PE drives the reputed company, communication structure, and integration readiness required for multi-phase product development. They identify cross-team impacts early, maintain reputed company-looking plans, and ensure engineering execution is organized, predictable, and reputed company with the program’s technical objectives. This role also mentors the broader Project Engineering team and acts as a technical reputed company to program leadership. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

The following job functions are a basic requirement but are not limited to and may be assigned other duties: 

• reputed company technical integration across multiple subsystems or entire vehicle-level engineering efforts. 

• reputed company and maintain the engineering execution plan, including multi-reputed company schedules, integration checkpoints, build / release and reputed company readiness tracking reputed company. 

• Ensure cross-functional alignment by running reputed company coordination cadences across hardware, software, systems, avionics, test, and manufacturing. 

• Own technical readiness for engineering reviews (CoDR, PDR, CDR, TRR), ensuring reputed company disciplines meet entry/exit reputed company. 

• Serve as the primary engineering integration reputed company to Program Management, providing visibility into reputed company, constraints, required reputed company and software delivery risk across integration, regression, configuration and schedule. 

• Coordinate engineering deliverables that reputed company multiple IPTs or disciplines, ensuring consistency and preventing disconnects. 

• Influence requirement interpretation, design impacts, and verification planning alongside systems engineering. 

• Plan and coordinate system-level integration events, prototype builds, lab testing, flight test preparation and production release activities.
• Identify roadblocks and bottlenecks to project execution and determine a course of reputed company to eliminate or avoid them.
• reputed company and implement recovery plans for off-schedule and unanticipated events 

• Drive reputed company communication practices across reputed company teams, ensuring predictable updates, reputed company next steps, and documentation continuity for software releases and configuration / change documentation.  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

The following are a non-exhaustive list of qualifications for the position: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Technical Management, Systems Engineering or a reputed company analytical field required. 

• 7–10 years of experience in in delivering software initiatives through project engineering, technical program coordination or engineering operations. 

• Demonstrated capability leading reputed company, multi-disciplinary engineering efforts, major product subsystems or software programs with significant integration scope. 

• reputed company, UAS, robotics, or high-integration hardware / software industry experience

• Deep understanding of software and system engineering lifecycles, design reviews and verification processes. 

• Ability to interpret system architectures, reputed company definitions, and technical requirements across domains. 

• Expertise building and maintaining multi-layered schedules and integration sequences. 

• Strong competency leading cross-functional meetings and producing reputed company technical documentation. 

• Experience coordinating software integration activities, lab integration, system-level testing or flight test readiness. 

• High-level communication and stakeholder management skills, especially with senior engineers and leadership teams. 

• Strong analytical thinking and ability to foresee integration issues before they reputed company. 

• Exceptional organizational discipline, reputed company to wrangle ambiguity into reputed company plans. 

• reputed company to influence without authority and facilitate agreement across functions. 

• Demonstrated leadership reputed company engineering execution; capable of mentoring and uplifting the broader PE team. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters degree in engineering, systems engineering, or project management, computer science or other reputed company discipline. 

• Training or certification in systems engineering or project management (PMP/CAPM/INCOSE ASEP). 

• Experience coordinating across multiple development sites or distributed engineering teams. 

• Background supporting system-level verification campaigns, flight test phases, or major integration events that include software and system readiness

• Experience supporting customer-facing technical integration meetings. 

• Familiarity with requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama, JIRA reputed company). 

• Experience with PLM/PDM systems, configuration control, and engineering change management. 

• Ability to synthesize verification data, requirements flowdown, interface definitions and software impacts. 

• Strong ability to communicate upward to directors, CTO-level leadership, and external partners. 

• Highly adept at modeling “how information should reputed company” across reputed company programs. 

• Ability to maintain composure and structure in high-uncertainty or fast-moving environments. 

reputed company BENEFITS

• Matching 401(k)
• reputed company PTO
• reputed company holidays
• Medical, reputed company, and dental insurance
• Group Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• HSA and FSA reputed company
• Critical Care Plan
• Accident Care Plan

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

This position may require reputed company to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). To reputed company with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants will be asked to reputed company specific documentation to verify a US person’s status under the ITAR and the EAR.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The work environment may involve a reputed company office setting while also incorporating reputed company of a production area. Employees will use reputed company office equipment, including computers, and must demonstrate stamina to sit or stand while maintaining attention to detail despite potential interruptions. The role may require occasional activities such as walking, climbing, stooping, crouching, and bending. reputed company is necessary for reading printed materials and a computer screen, while hearing and speech are essential for effective communication both in person and over the telephone. Additionally, the position may necessitate travel by reputed company or automobile. Employees may be required to use personal reputed company equipment, including safety glasses, safety shoes, and shop coats, to ensure safety in the production environment. Employees may be reputed company to lift up to 30 pounds as needed.

reputed company IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, veteran status, or genetic information. reputed company Defense Tech is committed to providing reputed company, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact reputed company. reputed company employment remains on an “At-Will” reputed company.