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Vice President of Engineering – Air Dominance and Strike
| Company | Anduril |
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| Location | Newport Beach, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $260000 – $390000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Deep understanding and previous systems leadership of group 5 unmanned aircraft and/or missile systems.
- Early previous baseline experience in any of the following disciplines you will be managing.
- 15+ years of experience in a senior role leading air vehicle programs from initial concept through test and delivery to customers
- Strong understanding of the “why” behind vehicle and systems design.
- Experience working on mission critical DOD systems
- Experience creating teams and focusing them around a common vision
- Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical or Software engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed systems.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical execution of new and existing air vehicle systems design, fabrication, test and productization. This includes aircraft and missiles.
- Lead the long term functional engineering team development roadmap to ensure we have the skillsets, capabilities and workflows to enable successful execution of current and future programs.
- Own the technical success and meet deliverable timelines in all phases of development.
- Establish a center of excellence in air vehicle design that includes a library of standards, allowables, and tool sets to build upon.
- Find, hire, manage, and mentor the team of internal and external subject matter experts, and communicate that vision to them.
- Partner closely with the business lines in areas of proposal capture, customer interface, resource planning, capital expenditures and program schedules.
- Partner closely with additional stakeholder disciplines that are not under you direct organizational leadership; These include but are not limited to manufacturing, supply chain, energetics, mission systems integrations, GNC, Flight test and evaluation.
- Manage the detailed design of the system and subsystems including requirements development, sub-system trades and optimization, risk management to ensure the appropriate consideration of design key performance parameters, schedule, costs and risks.
- Own the overall model/drawing/documentation package required for initial build and effective production transition.
- Work with senior leadership to ensure resource plans are adequate.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
