Cyclops Chief Engineer: Systems Architecture Lead

Long Wall Company; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Life insurance

LTD coverage

401k match

Parental leave

Job summary

Long Wall Company is seeking a Program Chief Engineer for Cyclops, responsible for the technical baseline, architecture, requirements, configuration, and verification strategy across the interceptor program.

You will coordinate with systems engineering, mission assurance, and project management to deliver flight-ready solutions while maintaining technical integrity and meeting customer mission needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in complex aerospace or defense system development with ownership over system design or leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical authority for Cyclops, owning architecture, requirements, baseline, and verification strategy.
• Define and maintain the system’s technical configuration and ensure disciplined evaluation of changes.
• Lead technical decision making across propulsion, avionics, structures, mechanisms, GNC, software, and manufacturing engineering.
• Coordinate with systems engineering to maintain requirements traceability, ICDs, architecture, and verification planning.
• Partner with mission assurance to evaluate reliability, safety, and readiness and reflect disciplined risk assessment.
• Work as a peer leader with project management to protect technical integrity within schedule/resource constraints.
• Lead technical reviews (architecture, design, integration, verification planning, readiness) and ensure complete, defensible artifacts.
• Guide cross-discipline teams to keep development aligned with baseline and long-term mission needs.
• Resolve cross-functional technical issues and maintain system coherence during fast-paced cycles.
• Represent technical state to executives, stakeholders, and government customers, clarifying risk and readiness.
• Mentor discipline leads and grow Long Wall’s technical foundations with standards and processes.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

GNC expertise

Reliability

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Long Wall Company is seeking a Program Chief Engineer for Cyclops, responsible for the technical baseline, architecture, requirements, configuration, and verification strategy across the interceptor program.

You will coordinate with systems engineering, mission assurance, and project management to deliver flight-ready solutions while maintaining technical integrity and meeting customer mission needs.