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Staff Project Engineer, UAS Development
Firestorm
San Diego, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Onsite
USD 165000-185000 yearly
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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- Manage technical maturity, ensuring alignment with program timelines and budgets.
- Lead and coordinate program reviews from conceptual design reviews through production readiness reviews.
- Coordinate across multidisciplinary teams including aero-performance, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, autonomy, software, flight testing, and payload integration.
- Translate system specifications into derived requirements and manage system-level architecture and interfaces.
- Provide peer reviews for technical deliverables such as stress analyses and flight test plans.
- Ensure all subsystems (flight control, navigation, communication, propulsion, etc.) are effectively integrated and tested.
- Map verification and validation methods to requirements.
- Communicate technical risks through appropriate stakeholders.
- Own the systems engineering practices, digital engineering tools, and agile execution structures used across UAS programs. These will be a reusable standard for the team.
- Establish repeatable templates and entry/exit criteria for design and program reviews so review quality doesn't depend on who's running it.
- Build and maintain configuration management and interface control practices that scale as program count and team size grow.
- Capture lessons learned from each development cycle and convert them into concrete process changes, checklists, or tooling.
- Identify recurring cross-functional friction points (e.g., handoffs between design, manufacturing, and flight test) and design lightweight processes to close them.
- Partner with engineering leadership to decide where formal process adds value versus where it slows down iteration. This role is expected to professionalize execution without over-processing a fast-moving org.
- Support development of cross-functional input to test plans, test procedures, and data analysis for UAS verification and validation.
- Ensure airworthiness, safety, and compliance with relevant UAS standards and operational guidelines (e.g., Part 107 or COA).
- Interface with internal teams, suppliers, customers, and government agencies to align expectations and ensure project success.
- Prepare and deliver project reports, risk assessments, and technical presentations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred).
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