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General Atomics · 4 months ago

Staff Project Engineer Air Dominance

Poway California

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$128K/yr - $229K/yr

10+ years exp

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a world leader in Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles and advanced defense technologies. The role of Staff Project Engineer Air Dominance involves leading multi-disciplinary teams to innovate and integrate advanced technologies for autonomous UCAVs, while ensuring air dominance through strategic mission execution and customer engagement.

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No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Project Engineering: lead multi-disciplinary teams, innovate, design, integrate, test, qualify, and rapidly field advanced technologies and mission systems onto autonomous UCAV

Fighter Expertise: Leverages 4th or 5th Gen Fighter experience to form air-to-air tactics, maneuvers, engagements, and define doctrine for autonomous air dominance initiatives across multiple UCAV platforms

Simulation Environment: leverages fighter-to-fighter expertise to aid in the design realistic engagement scenarios for autonomous agent training & development, and lay down frameworks for complex simulation environments. Provides recommendations and trades on UCAV tactics to increase air dominance and successful mission outcomes

Mission Architect: Drives selection of advanced technology, leads end-to-end mission systems architecture focused on stitching together systems-of-systems, resolving complex kill chains, and closing critical mission gaps for air dominance initiatives across multiple UCAV platforms

Develop Artifacts: create specifications block diagrams, system interconnect diagrams, and define wire interfaces and ICDs for UCAV data link communication systems

Test & Evaluate: Configure, integrate, simulate, test, and evaluate tactical data link networks and topologies

Sub-K Management: leads subcontractor management through internal development teams to define subsystems requirements, selection of advanced technology hardware & software, and drive maturation of mission system to platform integration & test

Team Leadership: Lead Functional Engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business and strategic objectives, and allocating technical resources to achieve stated and program objectives

Collaboration: Foster a collaborative environment and build consensus for technical solutions between GA functional engineering departments, program management, external GA P&Ls, and customer stakeholders

Program Execution: Lead diverse multi-functional engineering teams to meet critical program milestones and successfully execute programs within defined cost and schedule parameters. Establish and maintain consistent team expectations, ensure resources and skillsets are available to support technical work products

Customer Engagement: Represent programs as the engineering lead, ensuring consistent and appropriate messaging to external customer stakeholders, PoR representatives across the DoD, industry partners, subcontractors, and senior internal/executive stakeholders

Proposals: Support engineering estimates and proposals in response to customer and leadership directives

Technical Reviews: Perform system analysis, conduct trade studies, author technical white papers, and generate customer technical data packages. Complete, document, and present System Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), and Critical Design Reviews (CDR)

Qualification

Fighter Pilot ExperienceMission Systems ArchitectureTechnical Expertise in EngineeringData Link Communication NetworksHardwareSoftware IntegrationMulti-INT SystemsProject Management SkillsTeam LeadershipEffective CommunicationCustomer Focus

Required

Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; fifteen or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, thirteen or more years of experience with a masters degree, or ten or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education

Former military fighter pilot or weapon systems officer with >1000 hrs in 4th or 5th Generation platform

Proven ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them in a dynamic work environment

Demonstrates technical expertise in the application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice as well as project management and leadership skills including organizing, planning, scheduling, and coordinating workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones

Experience in developing and integrating hardware and software with various engineering disciplines, including Mechanical, Electrical, RF, Cyber, Autonomy, AI/ML, and Software

Direct Technical expertise and experience with more than one of the following; Link 16, TTNT, UHF, VHF, IFF-T/I, SATCOM, Starshield, LPI/LPD waveforms, Encrypted Comms, and Next-Generation data link communication networks

Experience in one or more of the following technologies: Multi-Mode Radars, EO/IR systems, Advanced IRST, Electronic Warfare systems, Multi-INT systems, Countermeasures, Communications, Tactical Datalinks, Automation, Autonomy & Artificial Intelligence (A3I), HMI/UI, Cybersecurity, Software Architectures, Open Architectures and Standards (AMS GRA, OMS, FACE, STANAG), Networking, Modeling & Simulation

Product Management, Proposal Development, Basis of Estimation, Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS); Commercial and/or DoD Product development experience

Ability to resolve complex technical problems

Strong leadership and team management skills

Effective communication skills with the ability to build enterprise relationships and manage customer expectations

Must be customer-focused, able to work independently and in a team environment

Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance required (up to a TS/SCI)