- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Full-time · Executive
- 15+ years
Senior technical leadership role for a new aircraft program, responsible for design, development, integration, and maturation of the air vehicle.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Own the Air Vehicle: Serve as the technical leader for the aircraft, responsibility for overall vehicle architecture, technical performance, integration, and design integrity.
- Lead Multidisciplinary Engineering: Provide technical direction across aerodynamics and flight sciences, structures, mechanical systems, propulsion, avionics, electrical systems, flight controls, and other air vehicle disciplines.
- Drive System-Level Trades: Lead first-principles engineering trades across performance, weight, range, payload, cost, reliability, manufacturability, schedule, and technical risk.
- Lead Design Execution: Drive the aircraft from requirements and conceptual design through preliminary and critical design, hardware release, build, integration, ground test, and flight test.
- Stay Hands-On: Remain deeply engaged in the engineering work. Participate in design reviews, technical problem solving, root-cause investigations, test activities, and critical design decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- related engineering discipline
- Nice to have: Master's degree or higher