Senior Project Engineer, Missile Defense Systems

Energy Jobline ZR; Huntsville (AL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (heavily subsidized)

Dental insurance (heavily subsidized)

Vision insurance (heavily subsidized)

Life insurance

401k match

Job summary

Long Wall Company is seeking a Sr. Project Engineer to drive rapid engineering and integration for the RSX target vehicle.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, maintain schedules, and ensure alignment with technical baselines in a fast-paced, private-investment-driven environment with government testing. The role emphasizes ownership of engineering-centric workflows, collaboration with chief engineering, systems engineering, and mission assurance to preserve technical integrity while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in engineering project management or related roles.
• Experience coordinating engineering teams and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day internal execution of the RSX target vehicle development, ensuring engineering, integration, and test teams operate with clarity, pace, and alignment.
• Maintain detailed internal schedules, resource plans, resource constrained critical paths, and cross-functional work coordination.
• Manage internal priorities and development flow, ensuring rapid progress while maintaining technical rigor defined by chief engineering and systems engineering.
• Coordinate closely 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 escalating 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

Project leadership

Schedule management

Cross-functional coordination

Systems engineering liaison

Requirements tracing

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical discipline

Job description

Long Wall Company is seeking a Sr. Project Engineer to drive rapid engineering and integration for the RSX target vehicle.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, maintain schedules, and ensure alignment with technical baselines in a fast-paced, private-investment-driven environment with government testing. The role emphasizes ownership of engineering-centric workflows, collaboration with chief engineering, systems engineering, and mission assurance to preserve technical integrity while