About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead systems engineering and integration & test (I&T) for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). You'll guide a team of engineers from requirements through verification, validation and transition to production, while serving as a primary technical voice to customers.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll own the technical baseline, drive cross-functional execution, and help select components and design approaches based on specifications, reliability and vendor capability.
What You'll Do
Lead the team
• Manage a team of systems engineering and integration professionals: staffing, workload planning, performance management, mentoring and career development
• Enforce company processes and engineering discipline while driving practical, executable solutions
Own systems engineering execution
• Drive the full lifecycle: requirements development and decomposition, system integration, verification, validation and transition to production
• Manage requirements traceability, allocation, verification planning and technical baseline evolution
• Produce system-level artifacts, including requirements, interface definitions, technical plans, test plans, procedures, reports and customer presentations
• Design and evaluate electronic components and circuitry; select parts based on specifications and reliability, and review vendor capability
Own integration & test
• Plan and run I&T end to end: integration readiness, test planning, procedure development, test conduct, data review, issue resolution and reporting
Coordinate and communicate
• Align software, hardware, manufacturing, quality, reliability, safety, flight test and program management teams on cost, schedule and technical goals
• Support airworthiness, system safety and reliability work, including field test safety, hazard coordination and reliability growth / issue closure
• Report technical progress, risks, issues and mitigation plans to leadership and external customers
• Serve as a primary customer-facing technical representative in reviews, status meetings and issue resolution
• Partner with program management on schedule, resource and technical performance planning
• Other duties as assigned
What You Bring
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, or an equivalent mix of education, training and experience
• 8+ years of electrical engineering experience, including 5+ years in design and development
• Experience leading electrical engineering work across requirements, architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, and PCBA and system test (FPGA experience a plus)
• Experience owning or leading integration & test for complex aerospace, defense, embedded or mission-critical systems
• U.S. citizenship
Nice to Have
Background
• Master's degree in electrical engineering
• Aerospace, defense or UAS systems engineering experience (strongly preferred)
• Robotics and UAS electrical architectures
• Embedded systems development, integration or test
• Mission systems, payload systems, imaging/sensing systems or related aerospace subsystems
Technical and program experience
• Altium Designer
• Writing system test plans, procedures, reports and objective evidence packages
• Airworthiness, certification or other regulated flight approval processes
• Reliability activities such as FRACAS, root cause investigation, corrective action tracking or reliability growth
• Taking products from development or prototype into production
Leadership and communication
• Clear technical status, risk and progress reporting to internal and external stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication, including concise documentation and professional presentations
• Leading cross-functional teams to program deadlines
• Assessing technical risk and opportunity, setting mitigation strategies and driving closure
• Building trust, influencing decisions and leading through change in a fast-paced environment
Work Environment & Requirements
• Environment: Climate-controlled office; occasional outdoor exposure while traveling
• Physical: Ability to sit, stand, stoop, reach, bend and lift up to 10 lbs; hand and wrist dexterity for computer work
• Travel: Travel to program sites and special functions, within the continental U.S. and internationally as required
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen
• Clearance: None required
