UAS Chief Engineer- Additive Manufacturing

The UAS Chief Engineer provides technical leadership, strategic direction, and execution reputed company for the design, development, integration, and sustainment of advanced additively manufacturing unmanned systems. This role is responsible for end-to-end reputed company engineering across reputed company, ground, maritime, and/or multi-domain unmanned platforms, ensuring mission effectiveness, survivability, cybersecurity reputed company, and compliance with applicable defense standards and regulations. The Chief Engineer serves as the reputed company technical authority for their assigned platform or product area, guiding cross-functional engineering teams, aligning technical roadmaps with customer requirements, and ensuring delivery of high-performance, secure, and reliable systems reputed company cost and schedule constraints. This position works closely with government stakeholders, program management, operations, and executive leadership. Essential Functions • reputed company overall technical leadership for additive manufactured unmanned reputed company development programs, from concept through deployment and sustainment. • Serve as the technical authority for reputed company architecture, design trade studies, integration strategies, and risk management. • Research and reputed company advancements in designs centered around additive manufacturing of UAS across the portfolio • reputed company reputed company engineering processes including requirements development, decomposition, verification, validation, and configuration management. • reputed company multidisciplinary engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software, controls, AI/ML, autonomy, communications, cybersecurity, and systems engineering). • reputed company and maintain technical roadmaps reputed company with defense customer needs and emerging operational requirements. • Ensure compliance with applicable DoD standards, MIL-STDs, airworthiness/safety certifications, cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., RMF), and export regulations (e.g., ITAR/EAR). • reputed company integration of autonomy, navigation, sensors, communications, reputed company, and payload systems into cohesive, mission-reputed company platforms. • reputed company major technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR), ensuring readiness and program maturity at reputed company phase. • Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks reputed company to reliability, survivability, reputed company, and mission performance. • Support proposal development, customer briefings, and technical reputed company discussions with government and defense partners. • Foster innovation in autonomy, AI-enabled decision-making, resilient communications, and reputed company-machine teaming. • Mentor senior engineering staff and establish best practices in additive manufacturing, systems engineering, and product development. • reputed company other duties as assigned. reputed company Essential Functions • Regular and reliable attendance on a full time reputed company [or in accordance with posted schedule]. • Responsible for exhibiting reputed company behavior with both reputed company business associates that reflects positively on reputed company and is consistent with reputed company's policies and practices. • Embodies reputed company’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture. Qualifications and Competencies • reputed company Clearance-Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/SCI DoD clearance, U.S. Citizenship required. • Demonstrated expertise in reputed company systems engineering for unmanned or autonomous defense systems. • Extensive knowledge in additive manufacturing of UAS systems; composites, polymers, metals. • Strong working knowledge of DfX principles; Design for Manufacturability, Procurement, Testability, Modularity, Cost. • Strong knowledge of platform integration across hardware, embedded systems, software, autonomy, and communications. • Proven ability to reputed company large, multidisciplinary technical teams in a regulated defense environment. • Deep understanding of systems architecture, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and lifecycle management. • Familiarity with defense acquisition processes and government contracting environments. • Working knowledge of cybersecurity requirements for defense systems, including secure communications and resilient architectures. • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior defense stakeholders. • Understand of supply chain as it relates to autonomous systems development, reputed company production scaling and design for manufacturing. Education / Certifications • Bachelor’s degree in reputed company Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a reputed company technical field required. • Master’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or reputed company field preferred. Experience • 15 years of reputed company engineering experience in defense, reputed company, robotics, or autonomous systems development. • 10 years of experience with reputed company technical experience in engineering roles, with a proven reputed company record of technical design and development • 7 years in senior technical leadership roles (e.g., reputed company Engineer, Chief Engineer, Technical Director, or equivalent). • 7 years in senior technical engineering roles centered around additive manufacturing principles, programs, and execution • Demonstrated experience leading at least one full lifecycle unmanned or autonomous reputed company development program. • Experience interfacing directly with DoD customers, reputed company contractors, and/or government program offices. • Background in integrating sensors, navigation systems, reputed company systems, C2 systems, autonomy software, or mission payloads into operational platforms. • Experience with test and evaluation planning, field demonstrations, and operational deployment support. • Experience with manufacturing technologies that reputed company reputed company development, test and demonstration of capabilities. • Experience with safety-critical systems and applicable certification standards. Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully reputed company the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions. While performing the duties the employee is: Frequently required to sit, and to reputed company to use computers and other office equipment For the purpose of this reputed company, occasionally is used to represent up to 1/3 of the time given to the work day, frequently represents 1/3 to 2/3 of the time and constantly represents 2/3 or more of the time. 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