Senior Optical Payload Engineer

1 month ago

San Diego, California, United States General Atomics and Affiliated Companies Full time
Job Summary

General Atomics and Affiliated Companies is seeking a highly skilled Senior Optical Payload Engineer to join our team. This exciting opportunity will support the development of EO/IR space-based payloads and airborne laser systems for our Optical Technologies organization in Rancho Bernardo.

Key Responsibilities
  • Guide architecture trades to find balanced technical, schedule, and cost solutions for customers.
  • Mentor technical teams, hardware/software designers, and analysts through the full product lifecycle.
  • Optimize processes and drive standard methodologies across the program to balance execution risk with shortened delivery schedules and optimized cost.
  • Serve as a technical point of contact for engineering with customers, systems integrators, program management, and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
  • Technical oversight and coordination of engineering resources necessary to evaluate and resolve issues, including coordination of external expertise.
  • Ensure technical baseline control by implementing Engineering Review Board (ERB) and supporting Risk and Opportunity Management Process (ROMP) execution.
  • Manage professional and technical performance of staff to ensure quality, business, and financial objectives are achieved.
  • Supports and leads the engineering staff in the analysis, investigation, and resolution of routine engineering problems.
  • Independently performs challenging engineering work, documents findings, communicates results, makes technical presentations, and supports test activities both on and off site.
  • Leads the designs, development, and testing of components and systems.
  • Demonstrates a strong understanding of design, analysis, fabrication, and test techniques for space and military applications.
  • Assists with requirement analysis, mission analysis, and design trade-offs.
Requirements
  • Typically requires a bachelor's degree, master's degree, or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience.
  • Fifteen or more years of experience with a bachelor's degree, thirteen or more years of experience with a master's degree, or ten or more years with a PhD.
  • Familiarity with all aspects of the development life cycle, environmental testing, and flight testing.
  • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team environment.
  • Previous experience with optical and laser systems is desired.
  • Strong communication, leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required to enable an effective interface within departments, all levels of management, professional and support staff, customers, and government representatives.
  • Experience with Systems Architecture design of laser systems, including command and control.
  • Experience in all phases of the program lifecycle – pre-proposal through deployment.
  • Demonstrated strategic development and analysis skills.
  • Experience mentoring and developing technical talent.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive closure and resolve complex technical issues/challenges.
  • Demonstrated experience with development, assembly/integration/test, readiness, and operations of complex optical systems.
  • Experience with procurement and management of supplier-developed or GFE hardware/software, including collaboration with enterprise subcontract management and procurement teams.
  • Proven experience as a conceptual thinker with the ability to translate into action and results.
  • Ability to build consensus among peers while building solid relationships with team members, leadership, subordinates, and customers.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance is required.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary range: $128,130 - $229,358.
  • Travel percentage required.
  • Relocation assistance provided.
  • US citizenship required.
  • Clearance required.
  • Desired clearance level: Secret.
Equal Opportunity Employer

General Atomics and Affiliated Companies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, transitioning status, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, medical condition, mental disability, physical disability, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

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