Lead the integrated execution of complex autonomy-enabled UAS programs from requirements through deployment, combining systems-engineering rigor with program-management discipline and scaled-Agile leadership.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end execution of complex UAS, autonomy, mission-system, or customer-delivery programs, achieving technical, schedule, cost, quality, and customer objectives.
Own integrated program plans, including scope, milestones, schedules, critical path, resource needs, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and change control.
Partner with technical leads to ensure requirements, interfaces, verification plans, test readiness, technical baselines, and customer acceptance criteria are clear, measurable, and traceable.
Lead cross-functional system integration and test execution across hardware, software, autonomy, systems engineering, test, manufacturing, flight operations, cybersecurity, and field/customer teams.
Drive timely resolution of technical, programmatic, and cross-team issues; facilitate trade studies, risk mitigations, recovery plans, and leadership decisions when needed.
Lead technical deputy for the X-BAT autonomous combat aircraft program, overseeing design, development, integration, testing, and maturation across all engineering disciplines.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary technical deputy to the X-BAT Air Vehicle Lead
Maintain the technical baseline of the air vehicle
Lead day‑to‑day integration of engineering activities
Drive aircraft‑level technical decisions and trade studies
Establish and maintain a disciplined technical‑risk process
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Nice to have: Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related discipline
Nice to have: Experience with clean‑sheet military aircraft
Leadership role to oversee Systems Engineering, System Architecture, Cybersecurity Engineering, and Safety/Airworthiness Engineering for the Hivemind Enterprise organization, focusing on autonomy platforms and AI Pilots.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead the team: Hire, develop, and lead the SE&A engineering disciplines, establishing clear responsibilities, technical standards, and effective cross-functional partnerships.
Establish the operating model: Define how SE&A engages with product and engineering teams, prioritizes competing demands, and allocates resources.
Guide requirements development and management, system modeling, architectural trade studies, interface definition, traceability, and change impact analysis.
Drive verification and validation planning: Establish system-level verification and validation strategies, measurable acceptance criteria, and evidence expectations.
Integrate systems engineering and architecture into iterative planning, design, implementation, testing, release readiness, and sustainment.
Requirements
Degree in a relevant engineering or computer science discipline
Nice to have: Model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
Nice to have: SysML
Nice to have: Cameo
Nice to have: Aerospace and defense experience
Skills
Manager, Software Test & Automation
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Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for defining verification strategies, building automated validation capabilities, and establishing software readiness standards across a diverse portfolio of autonomy programs.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team of Software Test & Automation Engineers
Define verification and validation strategies spanning simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, and operational test environments
Drive the development of automated regression testing, validation frameworks, and test infrastructure
Establish software readiness criteria, quality gates, and objective performance metrics
Partner with Digital Infrastructure to integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines
Develop and maintain Shield AI’s foundational simulation platform for next‑generation VTOL aircraft, including advanced aircraft models in C++ and verification/validation studies.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Develop infrastructure and models in C++ for autonomous aircraft simulation
Serve as a subject matter expert in modern aerospace and software engineering
The Mission Systems Software Engineer will work on developing solutions of a real time system environment to provide mission computing support at the center of an autonomous aircraft with sensor and weapons.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Serve as a software mission systems engineer for a safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing system aligned with A-GRA and AMS-GRA principles, profiles, interfaces, and data standards.
Define and maintain the end-to-end software architecture, including mission applications, platform services, middleware, operating-system interfaces, hardware-abstraction layers, networking, data distribution, component boundaries, and APIs.
Architect for deterministic real-time performance by addressing scheduling, latency, jitter, synchronization, throughput, resource utilization, distributed processing, and CPU/GPU/accelerator allocation.
Develop architecture views, interface definitions, data-flow and deployment models, sequence and timing diagrams, resource budgets, trade studies, and technical decision records.
Integrate sensors, effectors, communications, navigation, autonomy, mission management, command-and-control, data-processing, and vehicle services in collaboration with hardware, FPGA, cybersecurity, safety, systems, integration, and test teams.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
Lead planning, coordination, and integration of GN&C hardware for Blue Ring spacecraft, develop hardware, firmware and software solutions, support verification and testing, collaborate on software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Compensation
Base Pay Range for: WA applicants is $156,802.00 - $219,522.45
Responsibilities
Lead planning and coordination of resources for procurement, acceptance and integration of GNC components
Develop hardware, firmware and software product solutions for future vehicle designs
Provide input on state-of-the-art hardware and firmware technologies
Support verification and testing of GN&C components
Collaborate on software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, on-vehicle functional testing and flight-testing
Requirements
B.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering or related technical subject area
The Senior Principal Engineer, Software Design Quality serves as a senior technical authority for software design quality and design assurance throughout the product lifecycle. This position provides independent Quality leadership to ensure software and software-intensive medical devices are developed, verified, validated, released, and maintained in accordance with applicable design controls, software lifecycle processes, risk management requirements, regulatory requirements, and the Quality Management System.
Compensation
The estimated base salary for this position is $128,000 to $176,000.
Responsibilities
Serve as the senior Design Quality technical authority for medical device software projects across the full product lifecycle.
Provide Design Quality oversight primarily for embedded software used in electromechanical medical devices, with the ability to support PC-based, web-based, connected, and interoperable software as product needs evolve.
Provide independent Quality leadership for software development, sustaining engineering, design changes, and release decisions.
Operate independently and make risk-based quality decisions with limited day-to-day supervision from geographically dispersed teams.
Establish risk-based software Design Quality strategies aligned with intended use, product architecture, development methodology, and regulatory expectations.
The Product/Technical Steward serves as the Subject Matter Expert within MS&T for the stated Engineering Discipline, supporting lifecycle management of new and future products.
Responsibilities
Supports End of Life (EOL) component changes, from simple resistor changes to major assembly changes to assure continuous uneventful production is maintained
Assures component changes are properly assessed to assure the change is supported by objective evidence and maintains compliance with product specifications and regulatory requirements
Assures component changes are properly introduced to assure continuous, uneventful production
Assures PCB assemblies are correctly designed, tested, and released into production
Support or lead continuous improvement projects to support Operational Excellence activities
Requirements
Bachelor’s or greater in Electrical or Electromechanical Engineering
Responsible for the deployment, maintenance, and configuration of UAM software solutions to detect and mitigate insider threats, ensuring system functionality, coverage, and user training across enterprise environments.
Compensation
Pay From: $140,000 per year
Responsibilities
Execute all updates, changes, deployments, and sustainment activities for the UAM software solution.
Provide guidance on upgrades and system recapitalization, perform availability/capacity management and support all networking requirements and ensure full availability of all network switches and routers.
Oversee High Speed Guard Cross Domain solution that supports the transfer of data between multiple classification domains.
Support all documentation to effectively capture the configuration baseline.
Sr Principal Software Design Quality Engineer - Relocation Assistance ProvidedNewBaxter International Inc. · Raleigh, US