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Job Title: Chief Engineer - Enterprise Autonomy

Job Number: 21914

Job Location: Melbourne, FL (On Site)

Work Schedule: 9/80

Clearance: Must Have the Ability to Obtain and Maintain a DoD Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Job Summary:

Lead company-wide engineering team performing design, development, and test of complex systems-of-system enterprise autonomy capabilities.  As Chief Engineer, Enterprise Autonomy, you will oversee teams performing iterative development and test sprints of software for collaborative autonomy, aligning evolving customer requirements with the team’s overall technical capacity and maturity and ensuring that delivered capabilities meet the program’s test objectives. The Chief Engineer, Enterprise Autonomy is responsible for the technical baseline and associated deliverables, guiding the team through iterative sprint milestones while managing technical risk and tracking action items to closure. The Chief Engineer, Enterprise Autonomy uses extensive knowledge of project management to guide the development and test of these complex systems that deliver significant impact on business and functional results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Seves as the primary customer and associate contractor technical liaison
• Coordinates the team’s development and integration activities across multiple performers to include subcontractors and associate contractors
• Works with mission partners to determine the technical capabilities, delivery schedules and associated costs
• Shapes sprint planning objectives / tasks in alignment with monthly integration event priorities
• Directs integration and test teams to ensure readiness for formal test events
• Oversees the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) baseline for software components and all external interfaces
• Ensures successful Design Reviews, Peer Reviews and Technical Interchanges
• Evaluates and determines technical approaches to support key technical decisions
• Creates reports, documents and presentations for program and leadership meetings
• Travels to customer locations without supervision and provide onsite technical team guidance and oversight supporting successful demonstration of system performance objectives and mission success

Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong systems engineering background with experience in leading teams and collaborating with a diverse background of organizations and teams to accomplish whole system solutions.
• Subject Matter Expertise in one or more of these areas: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Distributed Software, Sensor Fusion, Autonomous Systems.
• Prior leadership role on project utilizing AGILE development methodology.
• Highly proficient communicator to all skill sets and levels of the organization, responds effectively to changing situations, skilled at prioritization, statusing, and working multiple tasks in parallel.
• Ability to hold and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Systems, Electrical or Software Engineering, and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
• Experience in strategic communications including capture campaigns, keep sold campaigns, reputation management and executive communications and experince in Aerospace and Defense.
• Experience working as a software-focused Senior Systems Engineer. 
• Solid understanding of networked communication protocols. 
• Excellent communication skills with customers, peers, stakeholders for the program. 
• Experience with the application of systems engineering tools.
• Experience working with project planning, requirement management and scheduling.
• Demonstrated experience and/or training in the integration of requirements, design and technology during the design and development of complex systems.
• Demonstrated experience and/or training in product development and associated development life cycle.

Preferred Skills, Experience and Education:

• Prior experience with Unmanned Systems technology
• Prior experience with multi-domain fusion technology
• Understanding of MBSE/Modeling and Simulation
• Understanding of physical architectures spanning across multiple security domains
• Highly skilled at planning test, integration, verification, and validation activities

Physical Demands:

• Ability to travel up to 40%
• Ability to independently lift 25 lbs.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• As required by program needs

Work Environment:

• Work performed in an office environment; customer facility; System Integration Laboratory (SIL); in ground vehicles or in secure facilities with/without environmental control; or on-site in aircraft parked in hangers and outside
• Working with computers and other computer and hardware components
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside of normal working hours (evenings and weekends)

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