Director, Mission Systems

What you'll do

• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams spanning communications and integrated mission systems.
• Set technical strategy, capability roadmaps, and investment priorities aligned with aircraft programs and business goals.
• Oversee mission-system architecture, analysis, integration, testing, customer engagement, and compliance across the product lifecycle.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, mathematics, or another relevant technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing a multidisciplinary engineering organization, including people managers and senior technical leaders.
• Broad working knowledge across relevant disciplines such as mission systems, modeling and simulation, survivability, secure communications, avionics, sensors, payloads, or weapons integration.
• U.S. citizenship; active Secret security clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance and required SAP/SAR accesses.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with military UAS, autonomous aircraft, collaborative combat aircraft, or fifth-generation fighter programs involving integrated mission systems and survivability.

Tools

SysML, model-based systems engineering, JCIDS, electronic warfare, low-observable communications

AI focus

Preferred working knowledge of AI-enabled sensors or payloads.