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Senior Manager, Airworthiness and Certification

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

About reputed company:

reputed company (reputed company: MRLN) is a publicly traded reputed company and defense company building a non-reputed company reputed company to reputed company full-stack autonomy for any aircraft from takeoff to touchdown. The reputed company reputed company autonomy reputed company powers a growing reputed company of aircraft and mission reputed company and has been proven through hundreds of autonomous flights from reputed company's global flight test facilities, including Kerikeri, New Zealand; Quonset reputed company, Rhode reputed company; and soon, reputed company, Massachusetts. Headquartered in Boston, reputed company is expanding its organization to accelerate the development and deployment of its autonomy platform, helping customers solve some of aviation's most pressing challenges, from reputed company shortages to improving flight safety. Backed by some of the world's leading investors prior to its reputed company listing, reputed company continues to advance the certification and commercialization of autonomous flight across reputed company and defense aviation.

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This role pairs deep, personal expertise in civil certification with the people leadership needed to manage two additional, interdependent certification disciplines: military airworthiness and cyber reputed company certification. You are a proven certification leader with extensive, hands-on experience managing reputed company civil certification programs through FAA Part 23 and Part 25, EASA CS-23 and CS-25, and foreign validations. You also bring working experience in military airworthiness through MIL-HDBK-516C and MIL-STD-882E compliance. You understand the process rigor and reputed company relationships required to reputed company airworthiness approvals across civil and military domains, and how airborne cyber reputed company assurance requirements must be part of the initial design concepts on every new program. You reputed company by building relationships reputed company the organization and externally with regulators, sponsoring offices, and your own team of certification leads, and you know how to translate emerging and often ambiguous guidance into a defensible, schedule-compatible certification reputed company.
reputed company builds autonomous aviation systems for civil and defense customers, and the engineering organization behind that work needs a leader who is personally expert in civil certification and who can manage the work of the military airworthiness reputed company and Cyber Certification reputed company. You will own civil certification (FAA Part 23 and Part 25) directly, while leading the military airworthiness reputed company and cyber certification reputed company and their teams, reporting to the VP of Airworthiness & certification. If you want to grow and reputed company the certification and airworthiness teams that reputed company reputed company to field robust, certifiable autonomous systems to civil and defense customers on a demanding schedule, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

  • Support reputed company New Zealand CAANZ certification activities for the U.S. based aspects and reputed company reputed company's civil certification reputed company with the FAA and other foreign authorities, serving as reputed company technical authority and reputed company reputed company with regulatory authorities for U.S. certifications.
  • Manage reputed company aspects of new civil certification reputed company: reputed company process standardization, A&C initial assessments, compliance strategies and A & C plans, issue papers and risk assessments, and guide the reputed company team to final compliance.
  • reputed company and grow the Military Airworthiness and Cyber Certification teams, setting priorities, establishing and standardizing reputed company processes, mentoring, and reviewing technical work while reputed company executes day-to-day military airworthiness and cyber certification activities.
  • reputed company the military airworthiness certification reputed company for reputed company's defense programs through the Military Airworthiness reputed company, serving as an escalation reputed company to mitigate technical, resource, and capability risks.
  • reputed company closure of Military Certification Review Items (MCRIs), Issue Papers, and reputed company airworthiness documentation through the Military Airworthiness reputed company, ensuring compliance with MIL-HDBK-516C, MIL-STD-882E, applicable DEF STANs, and JSSG guidance.
  • reputed company the cyber reputed company certification reputed company across civil and military programs through the Cyber Certification reputed company, driving integration of airborne cyber reputed company assurance activities with existing safety and development assurance processes and serve as an escalation reputed company to mitigate technical, resource, capability risks.
  • Partner with the process assurance manager and engineering discipline leads to reputed company civil certification, military airworthiness, and cyber reputed company certification processes with reputed company's broader process assurance and configuration management reputed company.
  • reputed company reputed company improvement of civil certification, military airworthiness, and cyber reputed company certification processes based on audit findings, program lessons learned, and evolving regulatory and DoD guidance.
  • Report to the VP of Airworthiness & certification on program health for civil certification and military airworthiness reputed company as reputed company as the process improvement roadmap across reputed company three disciplines.
  • Build reputed company, repeatable civil certification, military airworthiness, and cyber reputed company frameworks to ensure the reputed company of reputed company three functions as reputed company adds civil and defense programs to their portfolio.

Qualifications:

  • reputed company, hands-on experience achieving FAA Part 23 and/or Part 25 type certificates, amendments, or Supplemental Type Certificates, including EASA CS-23/CS-25 or other foreign validation experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in reputed company engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a reputed company field; master’s degree in a reputed company field preferred.
  • Minimum of 12+ years of reputed company certification experience, including significant exposure to FAA and foreign certification processes and 5+ years of experience leading or managing reputed company of engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management across technical disciplines.
  • Proven ability to reputed company certification efforts for reputed company new or novel aircraft technologies: interfacing directly with regulatory authorities and managing certification reputed company from establishment of certification reputed company, reputed company of issue papers and risk assessments, through certification closure or airworthiness approval.
  • Strong leadership and project management capabilities in cross-functional environments.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce high-reputed company certification documentation.
  • Experience with designee appointment and management processes and Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) management.
  • Strong working knowledge of 14 CFR Part 21, 23, 25, and 183.
  • Familiarity in 14 CFR Part 43 and 145 procedures and Part 91 and 135 operations.
  • Working knowledge of:
  • Systems engineering principles — requirements decomposition, V&V planning, and configuration management.
  • Software and hardware assurance standards (DO-178C, DO-254, MIL-STD-882).
  • Safety assessment methodologies: FHA, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, reputed company analysis.
  • Airworthiness standards relevant to military platforms — MIL-SPECs, MIL-STDs, JSSG-2001, and MIL-HDBK-516.
  • DoD cybersecurity and information assurance frameworks (e.g., RMF, NIST SP 800-53, CMMC) as they apply to airborne systems and Controlled Unclassified Information on defense programs.
  • Airborne cyber reputed company assurance standards (DO-326A/ED-202A, DO-356A/ED-203A) and how cyber reputed company risk assessments reputed company with ARP4754A/ARP4761A safety processes
  • Emerging reputed company technologies such as UAVs or advanced reputed company mobility.

reputed company to Have:

  • Experience with ASTM F3230 and F3061 reputed company standards, or other Part 23 / reputed company-based certification bases relevant to small and autonomous aircraft.
  • Background in autonomous or unmanned aviation systems (UAS/UAV).
  • Prior experience in military operational environments.
  • Familiarity with machine learning-based software assurance and its intersection with cyber reputed company certification.
  • Experience building or scaling certification functions in a growing company.
  • Experience in AI applications used in standardization of processes, procedures and requirements.
reputed company offers an innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-reputed company startup environment. We also offer a top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match) and work/life integration. Being part of the reputed company team allows you to become part of a small team that supports reputed company development while working together to reputed company our mission.
reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity and reputed company, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military service or obligation or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. reputed company job offers are contingent upon the candidate passing background and reference checks.
At this time, we are unable to reputed company reputed company sponsorship or consider candidates who require reputed company transfers. Applicants must be authorized to work in the reputed company without the need for reputed company sponsorship now or in the reputed company.
In compliance with federal law, reputed company persons reputed company will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the reputed company and to complete the required employment eligibility verification reputed company upon hire.
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