longwall - Program Chief Engineer, RSX (Remote considered)

Remote - Long Beach, California / Huntsville, Alabama3w ago

Remote C-level NA Airlines Aerospace Program Manager Principal Engineer Director of Security Risk Assessment Team Leadership Governance Decision Making

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or related engineering discipline. • 12+ years of experience in complex aerospace or defense system development, with significant ownership over systemlevel design, integration, or technical leadership. • Deep technical fluency across aerospace subsystems (structures, propulsion, avionics, mechanisms, GNC, software, manufacturing). • Proven ability to define requirements, architecture, ICDs, verification plans, and configuration control structures. • Strong analytical foundation and ability to challenge designs, analyses, and technical assumptions. • Demonstrated capability to lead technical teams through ambiguity, rapid development, shifting priorities, and fast paced integration cycles. • Excellent communication skills for briefing executive leadership, engineering teams, and government customers on technical status, risks, and decisions. • Strong understanding of reliability, safety, and mission assurance principles for flight critical systems. • Prior experience as a system chief engineer, technical director, principal engineer, or equivalent leadership role for missile, interceptor, launch vehicle, or military systems. • Experience working with the Missile Defense Agency, DoD, or other government customers on technical baseline management. • Familiarity with government test readiness processes, hazard analyses, and mission assurance frameworks. • Experience scaling engineering governance from prototype development into rate production or multiple program environments. • Active or recent security clearance (Secret or above). • Ability to sit or stand for extended periods. • Ability to use a computer for assignments and communicate effectively in person, telepresence, and phone. • Ability to travel between customer and company sites as required • ITAR Requirement • This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations. As such, US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for the RSX product, owning the system architecture, requirements, technical baseline, and verification strategy. • Define and maintain the system’s technical configuration, ensuring all design changes follow disciplined evaluation and protect system integrity. • Lead technical decision making across propulsion, avionics, structures, mechanisms, GNC, software, materials, manufacturing engineering, and integration. • Coordinate closely with systems engineering to maintain requirements traceability, ICDs, architecture, and verification planning. • Partner with mission assurance to evaluate reliability, safety, and readiness, ensuring technical decisions reflect disciplined risk assessment. • Work as a peer leader with project management, protecting technical integrity while ensuring realistic schedule and resource alignment. • Lead technical reviews (architecture, design, integration, verification planning, readiness reviews) and ensure technical artifacts are complete, defensible, and configuration controlled. • Guide cross discipline engineering teams to ensure development, integration, and test work remains aligned with the technical baseline and long‑term mission needs. • Resolve cross functional technical issues, adjudicate design trades, and maintain system level coherence across fast paced development cycles. • Represent the technical state of RSX product to executive leadership, external stakeholders, and government customers, ensuring clarity on risk, maturity, and technical readiness. • Mentor engineering discipline leads and help grow Long Wall’s technical foundations by establishing standards, processes, and review discipline. • Support expansion of chief engineering into a fully staffed technical authority function as the company scales across future product lines.