Senior Project Engineer, Missile Defense Programs

Long Wall Company; Huntsville (AL); Remote; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily employer-subsidized medical,?d

Long Wall paid life insurance and LTD

4% 401k match

Student loan repayment assistance

Paid parental leave

Family planning assistance program

Long Wall paid financial wellness

Paid time off for non-exempt employees

Job summary

Long Wall Company in California is seeking a Sr. Project Engineer for the RSX program.

This role drives rapid engineering and integration efforts, coordinating cross-functional teams to keep schedules and technical baselines aligned while operating in a private-investment environment with government testing. The successful candidate will own the engineering-centric project flow, partner with chief engineering and mission assurance, and ensure disciplined execution across development,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical discipline is required.
• 8+ years of experience in engineering project management, integration leadership, or technical project execution.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day internal execution of the RSX target vehicle development, ensuring teams operate with clarity, pace, and alignment.
• Maintain detailed internal schedules, resource plans, cross-functional work coordination.
• Manage internal priorities and development flow, ensuring rapid progress while maintaining technical rigor.
• Coordinate with the Program Manager to ensure internal execution supports external commitments, contractual milestones, and program reporting.
• Facilitate technical decision flow by ensuring engineering discussions, trade studies, design changes, and integration plans remain documented, coordinated, and tracked.
• Work directly with engineering discipline leads to identify and resolve roadblocks, accelerate hardware development, and maintain configuration stability during fast-paced builds.
• Support integration and test operations by ensuring engineering artifacts, procedures, and configurations are ready on time and aligned with verification plans.
• Track and communicate internal risks, schedule drivers, and technical dependencies; support company-wide risk management led by mission assurance.
• Maintain alignment with systems engineering’s requirements, architecture, ICDs, and verification flows, ensuring internal schedules accurately reflect technical needs.
• Support chief engineering by ensuring development activities remain aligned with the technical baseline, and elevate issues that affect reliability, safety, or mission readiness.
• Help build scalable project management processes, templates, and execution models that will be used for future programs as the company grows

Skills

Engineering coordination

Schedule management

Technical development cycles

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical discipline

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Long Wall Company in California is seeking a Sr. Project Engineer for the RSX program.

This role drives rapid engineering and integration efforts, coordinating cross-functional teams to keep schedules and technical baselines aligned while operating in a private-investment environment with government testing. The successful candidate will own the engineering-centric project flow, partner with chief engineering and mission assurance, and ensure disciplined execution across development,