Director, Features System Engineering

Telemetry Today LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Telemetry Today LLC seeks a systems engineering technology leader who has built and run the function strategically, partnering with business and product teams to define requirements, verification strategy, and architecture for autonomous, AI-enabled systems. The role emphasizes safety, human factors, and rigorous processes within a fast-paced team.

You will lead architecture, requirements, and interface decisions, align hardware, software, safety, and flight controls, and coach engineers and

Qualifications

• Lead system and sub-system requirements, verification, and validation for new product programs.
• Define behaviors and functions of autonomous, AI-enabled systems.
• Align hardware, software, safety, and flight controls under a shared technical picture.

Responsibilities

• Set systems engineering plans, processes, and standards for a small, fast-moving team.
• Mentor and develop managers and engineers into technical leaders.
• Engage with executives, customers, suppliers, and regulators to explain design intent and safety case.

Skills

Systems engineering leadership

Architecture definition

Requirements & verification strategy

Safety-critical systems

Autonomy / AI-enabled systems

People leadership / mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Job description

You are a systems engineering Technology leader who has built and run the function strategically, not just practiced it. You have partnered with business and product teams to lead the system and sub-system expectations, requirements, and verification strategy on new product development programs, and you know how to turn an ambiguous concept into a defined, testable, certifiable system. You have defined the behaviors and functions of autonomous, AI-enabled systems, ideally in Product Architecture, Mission Autonomy, Vehicle Autonomy, and you can coach,explain and drive the design intent and the safety case to engineers, executives, customers, suppliers, and regulators with equal credibility.

You have worked as part of an engineering and technology organization on safety-critical systems, so you know how to keep safety and human factors at the forefront while the schedule is pushing hard. You set the systems engineering plans, processes, and standards that let a small, fast-moving team execute without losing rigor, and you stay close enough to the work to own significant architecture, requirements, and interface decisions yourself. You align hardware, software, safety, and flight controls around a shared technical picture, and you hold the line when disciplines disagree.

You build and develop managers and engineers as readily as you build architectures. You hire strong systems talent, mentor them into technical leaders, and earn trust across engineering through judgment rather than title. You are drawn to the hardest version of this problem: bringing autonomy to certified commercial and military aviation, where the technology is new, the stakes are real, and the playbook is still being written.