Director, Features System Engineering

As a systems engineering Technology leader, you will own Merlin's feature systems engineering development roadmap, strategy, processes, and standards, and evolve them as the program moves from early development toward certification.

What You Will Do

You will lead and manage systems engineering tasking across the organization, aligning hardware, software, safety, and flight controls disciplines to deliver on a shared technical plan and schedule.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will define the features, functions, and autonomous behaviors that each sub-system must execute, and ensure they trace cleanly to system-level requirements and the safety case.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or a related field; MS or PhD preferred.
• 15+ years of systems engineering experience (10+ with an MS, 8+ with a PhD), including at least 4 years being a manager of System engineering managers
• Specific experience in Mission Autonomy and Vehicle Autonomy development, including aspects of AI in autonomy system engineering
• Demonstrated ability to define system-level requirements, architecture, and interfaces, and to drive the teams on requirements validation and verification through to system-level confidence.
• Proven record of solving complex architectural and systems engineering problems on new product development programs.
• Experience working in an early stage R&D department on safety-critical systems or sub-systems, with sound judgment about when to move fast and when to hold the line.
• Experience with requirements management tools and processes best practices and with establishing them for a growing team.
• Hands-on experience certifying avionics equipment using ARP4754A and RTCA DO-178B/C and DO-254 for safety-critical systems.
• Track record of collaborating across engineering domains, customers, suppliers, and partners, and of earning credibility with technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experienced in hiring, developing, and retaining strong systems engineerIng talent and leadership coaching.
• Demonstration of development and deployment of writing SE processes for the business and teams
• Comfortable working with the leading AI based tools and frameworks and implementing best practices to automate System engineering deliverables and processes.
• Experience in developing, executing and monitoring Agile framework based System level releases using tools like Jira.

Benefits

• health insurance
• dental insurance
• life insurance
• flexible paid time off
• 401k with match