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Project Engineering Manager

Top Secret Clearance Jobs
Poway, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/29/2025

About the job Project Engineering Manager

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Job Summary General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), is a world leader in Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV), autonomy, AI-solutions, defense technologies, and advanced sensing capabilities. With more than eight million flight hours, GA-ASI is committed to rapidly delivering disruptive and advanced autonomous aircraft, end-to-end mission solutions, and cutting-edge technologies at scale to ensure the nation maintains strategic advantages through ISR and Air Dominance in contested environments.

The Agile Mission Systems (AMS) at GA-ASI in San Diego, CA is a growing center of excellence seeking high-performing technical contributors, unique talent, and future leaders in the Project Engineering (PE) role. In this role the candidate will be responsible for managing and leading the Mission Platform Systems (MPS) PE team in support of large programs, strategic objectives, stitch together systems-of-systems, influence multi-level business strategies, close complex kill chains, resolve critical mission gaps, and drive missionized architectures to achieve disruptive tactical advantages and effects on adversarial competition. This candidate's contributions will span across multiple UAS platforms to include; Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), Longshot, a variety of Small UAS, Expendable UAS, NexGen ISR, and Legacy Platform variants such as MQ-1 & MQ-9A / B.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • Project Engineering : lead multi-disciplinary teams, innovate, design, integrate, test, qualify, and rapidly field advanced technologies and mission systems onto autonomous UCAV.
  • Team Leadership : Lead and manage a high-performing team of Project Engineering staff, ensuring alignment with business and strategic objectives, and allocating technical resources to achieve stated and program objectives.
  • Team Management : Establish and maintain consistent team expectations, ensure the quality of the group's work products, conduct performance management, and provide training and mentoring for staff and supervisors.
  • Resource Management : Maintain group manpower and ensure appropriate resources and skillsets are available through hiring, mentoring, internal cross-training, external courses, and targeted individual career growth.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Mission Architecture : Lead design, drive selection of hardware & software, support mission architecture implementations and designs, including; technology initiatives such as Open Architectures (AMS GRA, OMS, FACE), Autonomy & AI, onboard fusion, track management, resource management, sensing optimization, and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) design.
  • Develop Artifacts : create specifications block diagrams, system interconnect diagrams, interfaces and ICDs for UCAV mission systems.
  • Test & Evaluate : Configure, integrate, simulate, test, and evaluate mission system and subsystem topologies.

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

Job Qualifications

  • Typically requires a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in engineering or a related technical field as well as eleven or more years of progressively complex engineering experience with at least five of those years having management responsibilities. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
  • Proven ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them in a dynamic work environment.
  • Experience in developing and integrating hardware and software with various engineering disciplines, including Mechanical, Electrical, RF, Cyber, Autonomy, AI / ML, and Software.
  • Technical expertise and experience with GA-ASI Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) & platforms, including MQ-9, MQ-1, MQ-20, CCA, or similar type platforms.
  • 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.
  • Skills :
  • 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, and willing to work extended hours and travel as required.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain DoD Security clearance required (up to a TS / SCI).
  • Job Type : Full-Time Salary

    Salary range : 112,320 - 205,058

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