Director of Engineering

You'll own the path from R&D to production across the whole system, and run the engineering org that executes it.

This is the person who turns a demonstrator into a weapon system. You'll lead across software, firmware, controls, hardware integration, and test, and drive the handoff from a lab system to one that survives downrange and can be built at volume. You set technical direction, and you stay close enough to be useful in the lab and on the range.