Chief Engineer, Space, Cyber & Defense Systems

BlueHalo; Colorado; Presencial; USD 246.000 - 393.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

9/80 work schedule

Paid holiday shutdown

Descripción de la vacante

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Space, Cyber and Directed Energy Segment Vice President of Engineering to serve as the senior engineering authority, defining technical vision and product development discipline for a rapidly scaling defense portfolio.

The leader will balance services and product development, drive modular architectures, and partner with manufacturing and enterprise teams to ensure affordability, rapid deployment, and smooth transition to production.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field required; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience within defense, aerospace, space, directed energy, RF systems, autonomous systems, or related national security sectors.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex engineering organizations supporting both development and production environments.
• Strong background in systems engineering, product development, and transition to manufacturing.
• Experience operating within high-growth, fast-paced technology organizations.
• Ability to balance technical rigor with speed and execution urgency.
• Experience collaborating across enterprise engineering and business leadership organizations.
• Top Secret/SCI Clearance or the ability to obtain a clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the senior engineering authority across the segment portfolio.
• Establish engineering standards, technical review processes, and development rigor appropriate for both services and product organizations.
• Ensure technical execution aligns with customer mission requirements, affordability targets, schedule commitments, and long-term product strategy.
• Drive engineering best practices across systems engineering, software, hardware, integration, test, cybersecurity, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Lead independent technical assessments and support executive decision-making related to technical risk, investment priorities, and program execution.
• Support the transition from bespoke engineering efforts to scalable, repeatable product solutions.
• Ensure engineering organizations are structured to move rapidly while maintaining technical discipline and mission assurance.
• Promote modular architectures, common product frameworks, reuse strategies, and product commonality across programs.
• Partner with manufacturing and operations teams to improve producibility, reliability, and lifecycle affordability.
• Drive engineering alignment with enterprise initiatives focused on speed, agility, commercialization, and rapid deployment.
• Partner directly with the CTO to flow enterprise engineering strategies, processes, tools, and governance into the segment.
• Support implementation of common engineering frameworks, digital engineering approaches, model-based systems engineering, and enterprise product development standards.
• Ensure engineering organizations adopt enterprise technology roadmaps and modernization initiatives where appropriate.
• Support engineering workforce planning, hiring strategies, succession planning, and capability development across the segment.
• Monitor engineering staffing requirements against strategic growth objectives.
• Help shape future engineering organizational structures, including eventual establishment of Chief Engineer roles aligned to business units or product portfolios.
• Foster a culture centered on accountability, innovation, technical excellence, collaboration, and mission focus.
• Partner closely with: Business Unit leaders, Program Management, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Growth & Capture, Security and Contracts; support customer engagements, technical roadmap discussions, milestone reviews, and strategic captures.
• Participate in executive operating rhythms including program reviews, investment reviews, and annual operating planning activities.

Conocimientos

Engineering leadership

Systems engineering

Executive communication

Risk management

Product development

Cross-functional collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Advanced degree

Herramientas

MBSE

Descripción del empleo

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Space, Cyber and Directed Energy Segment Vice President of Engineering to serve as the senior engineering authority, defining technical vision and product development discipline for a rapidly scaling defense portfolio.

The leader will balance services and product development, drive modular architectures, and partner with manufacturing and enterprise teams to ensure affordability, rapid deployment, and smooth transition to production.