Project Engineer Wildfire Programs

Job Summary

• Provide senior technical leadership for complex, high-visibility project engineering activities across multiple subsystems or program areas.
• Define technical approaches and develop solutions to highly complex engineering problems.
• Establish technical direction, priorities, and execution plans for major engineering efforts.
• Lead or influence multiple interdisciplinary teams through design, integration, verification, validation, test, delivery, and sustainment.
• Serve as a senior technical authority and principal interface with customers, program leadership, and senior engineering management.
• Evaluate system-level impacts, technical risks, cost, schedule, and performance tradeoffs, and recommend courses of action.
• Shape proposal strategies, technical baselines, resource estimates, staffing plans, and long-range engineering roadmaps.
• Review and approve significant technical products, analyses, designs, test approaches, and corrective-action plans.
• Develop the technical capabilities of the organization through mentoring, standards, process improvements, and knowledge transfer.
• Represent the organization in major technical reviews, customer discussions, and executive-level briefings.

• This position is eligible for the Individual Compensation Program (ICP) bonus.
• This position is eligible for a hybrid work environment pending project needs.
• Outstanding benefits including: 401(k) (with company match), company pension, on site cafeterias, gyms and outdoor recreation centers, unlimited access to discounted tickets to events and amusement parks such as San Diego Zoo and Safari Park.
• Outstanding work environment: team-centric, value and respect all contributors, great growth potential within GA-ASI project engineering and GA-ASI as a whole.
• Free Electric Vehicle (EV) charging while at work.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; twelve or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, ten or more years of experience with a masters degree, or seven or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Demonstrates a detailed and extensive technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones with some experience in project leadership.
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively interface with other departments, customers, government representatives, and/or professional.
• Capability of representing the organization as a prime technical contact; and, the ability to provide leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals.
• Must be customer focused and able to work on a self- initiated basis or in a team environment.
• Able to work extended hours and travel as required.
• A Professional Engineering License, original work(s) published in professional engineering journals, invited to present one or more original works to an engineering symposium, and invited and/or participated on an engineering review panel are desirable.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance is required.
• Desired Qualifications:
  • Experience with unmanned aircraft systems, aircraft systems engineering, autonomy, mission systems, payload integration, flight-test operations, or related aerospace programs.
  • Previous DoD experience highly desirable.
  • A Professional Engineering License, original work(s) published in professional engineering journals and invited to present one or more original works to an engineering symposium are desirable.

• Internal Title: Engineer VI
• Experience Level: Senior (8+ years)
• Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time Salary
• Workstyle: Hybrid
• Pay Range Low: 118,500
• Pay Range High: 207,750
• Job Category: Engineering
• Travel Percentage Required: 0% - 25%
• Relocation Assistance Provided?: Yes
• Clearance Required?: Desired
• US Citizenship Required?: Yes
• Clearance Level: Secret
• Employee Referral Bonus Amount: 1000.00