Technical Authority Lead, RSX Interceptor Program

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance & LTD

401k match

Student loan repayment

Paid parental leave

Family planning assistance

Financial wellness program

Paid time off

Job summary

Long Wall Company is seeking a Program Chief Engineer for RSX in California. You will own the system architecture, requirements, verification strategy, and configuration control while coordinating across propulsion, avionics, structures, and software teams to ensure mission readiness.

You will guide technical reviews, mentor engineering leads, and work with executives to communicate risk, maturity, and progress while balancing schedule and technical integrity.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for the RSX product, owning system architecture, requirements, baseline, and verification strategy.
• Define and maintain the system’s technical configuration, ensuring design changes follow disciplined evaluation and protect integrity.
• Lead technical decision making across propulsion, avionics, structures, mechanisms, GNC, software, materials, manufacturing engineering, and integration.
• Coordinate with systems engineering to maintain requirements traceability, ICDs, architecture, and verification planning.
• Partner with mission assurance to evaluate reliability, safety, and readiness, ensuring decisions reflect risk assessment.
• Work as a peer leader with project management, protecting technical integrity while aligning schedules and resources.
• Lead technical reviews and ensure artifacts are complete, defensible, and configuration controlled.
• Guide cross-discipline teams to ensure development, integration, and test align with baseline and mission needs.
• Resolve cross-functional technical issues, adjudicate design trades, and maintain system coherence in fast-paced cycles.
• Represent technical state to executives, stakeholders, and government customers, clarifying risk and readiness.
• Mentor discipline leads and help grow company’s technical foundations by establishing standards and reviews.
• Support expansion of chief engineering into a fully staffed authority as the company scales.

Skills

Aerospace subsystems

Requirements definition

System architecture

Verification planning

Leadership under ambiguity

Executive briefing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering

Job description

Long Wall Company is seeking a Program Chief Engineer for RSX in California. You will own the system architecture, requirements, verification strategy, and configuration control while coordinating across propulsion, avionics, structures, and software teams to ensure mission readiness.

You will guide technical reviews, mentor engineering leads, and work with executives to communicate risk, maturity, and progress while balancing schedule and technical integrity.