About You
You are a systems engineering Technology leader who has built and run the function strategically, not just practiced it. You have partnered with business and product teams to lead the system and sub-system expectations, requirements, and verification strategy on new product development programs, and you know how to turn an ambiguous concept into a defined, testable, certifiable system. You have defined the behaviors and functions of autonomous, AI-enabled systems, ideally in Product Architecture, Mission Autonomy, Vehicle Autonomy, and you can coach,explain and drive the design intent and the safety case to engineers, executives, customers, suppliers, and regulators with equal credibility.
You have worked as part of an engineering and technology organization on safety-critical systems, so you know how to keep safety and human factors at the forefront while the schedule is pushing hard. You set the systems engineering plans, processes, and standards that let a small, fast-moving team execute without losing rigor, and you stay close enough to the work to own significant architecture, requirements, and interface decisions yourself. You align hardware, software, safety, and flight controls around a shared technical picture, and you hold the line when disciplines disagree.
You build and develop managers and engineers as readily as you build architectures. You hire strong systems talent, mentor them into technical leaders, and earn trust across engineering through judgment rather than title. You are drawn to the hardest version of this problem: bringing autonomy to certified commercial and military aviation, where the technology is new, the stakes are real, and the playbook is still being written.
Qualifications
- BS in Electrical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, or a related field; MS or PhD preferred.
- 15+ years of systems engineering experience (10+ with an MS, 8+ with a PhD), including at least 4 years being a manager of System engineering managers
- Specific experience in Mission Autonomy and Vehicle Autonomy development, including aspects of AI in autonomy system engineering
- Demonstrated ability to define system-level requirements, architecture, and interfaces, and to drive the teams on requirements validation and verification through to system-level confidence.
- Proven record of solving complex architectural and systems engineering problems on new product development programs.
- Experience working in an early stage R&D department on safety-critical systems or sub-systems, with sound judgment about when to move fast and when to hold the line.
- Experience with requirements management tools and processes best practices and with establishing them for a growing team.
- Hands-on experience certifying avionics equipment using ARP4754A and RTCA DO-178B/C and DO-254 for safety-critical systems.
- Track record of collaborating across engineering domains, customers, suppliers, and partners, and of earning credibility with technical teams and senior stakeholders.
- Experienced in hiring, developing, and retaining strong systems engineerIng talent and leadership coaching.
- Demonstration of development and deployment of writing SE processes for the business and teams
- Comfortable working with the leading AI based tools and frameworks and implementing best practices to automate System engineering deliverables and processes.
- Experience in developing, executing and monitoring Agile framework based System level releases using tools like Jira.