Mission Systems Lead

You will lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a maritime product, from initial concept through delivery. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new maritime platform.
• Partnering with the Vehicle Software team to develop core sensor, actuator, and vehicle system functionality.
• Driving architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage, and network architecture.
• Contributing to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into maritime platforms.
• Leading teams that develop software that runs on- and off-platform, using a variety of technologies.
• Driving the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of mission software, including full lifecycle testing.
• Supporting vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Leading teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.

Required qualifications include:

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system.
• Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies.
• Experience with modeling and simulation.
• Experience with development of high assurance safety-critical software.
• Experience with development of comprehensive unit test and regression.
• Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, inclusive of payload capabilities and both commercial and military mission sets.
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with vehicle management systems.
• Familiarity with System Engineering concepts.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field.
• Experience in a leadership position within a high-performing technology organization.
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and optimization.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Capacity to work holistically on software-enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation, and sustainment.
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity.
• 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous maritime systems.

The salary range for this role is $191,000-$253,000 USD.