Chief Engineer & Deputy CTO: Aerospace Systems Leader

albers-aersopace; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Albers Aerospace is seeking a Chief Engineer/Deputy Chief Technology Officer to lead technical integrity and engineering readiness across hardware, mission systems, and manufacturing. You will set engineering strategy, oversee risk, and ensure readiness from concept to sustainment.

You will bridge design, systems integration, and production, guiding senior engineers while maintaining speed, ownership, and customer focus in a complex defense environment. On-site collaboration is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical, systems, electrical, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible engineering experience, including at least five years in a senior technical leadership role such as Chief Engineer, Engineering Director, Technical Director, Program Chief Engineer, or Lead Systems Engineer.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary aerospace or defense programs involving hardware, software, firmware, systems integration, manufacturing, suppliers, test, and fielding.
• Experience across the full engineering lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, analysis, prototyping, integration, verification, qualification, production transition, and sustainment.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical authority and making decisions that balance performance, safety, quality, cost, schedule, producibility, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Albers Aerospace’s senior enterprise engineering authority for technical integrity, engineering readiness, design decisions, and technical risk across hardware, aerospace structures, aircraft integration, mission systems, manufacturing, sensors, munitions, fuzing, digital engineering, and integrated hardware-software systems.
• Act as Deputy Chief Technology Officer, representing the CTO when delegated and supporting enterprise technology strategy, R&D priorities, engineering investments, workforce planning, and executive decision-making.
• Establish clear technical decision rights, responsibilities, and escalation paths across Engineering, Operations, Program Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Business Development, and Information Technology.
• Develop and maintain a lean, risk-based engineering operating model covering requirements, architecture, interfaces, design, analysis, verification, qualification, configuration management, production transition, fielding, and sustainment.
• Lead engineering workforce and capacity planning, including critical hiring needs, mentoring, succession planning, technical career paths, internal advancement, onboarding, internships, and cross-site development opportunities.
• Partner with the Chief Scientist and Technical Director to transition emerging technologies, trade studies, prototypes, and demonstrations into disciplined engineering development, qualification, production, and fielded capability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Technical decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

System integration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering or related field

Fifteen+ years of engineering experience

Job description

Albers Aerospace is seeking a Chief Engineer/Deputy Chief Technology Officer to lead technical integrity and engineering readiness across hardware, mission systems, and manufacturing. You will set engineering strategy, oversee risk, and ensure readiness from concept to sustainment.

You will bridge design, systems integration, and production, guiding senior engineers while maintaining speed, ownership, and customer focus in a complex defense environment. On-site collaboration is required.