Software & Processing Project Engineer

Agile Mission Systems (AMS) at GA-ASI in San Diego, CA is a growing center of excellence seeking high-performing technical contributors and future leaders in the Project Engineering (PE) role. This candidate will define and execute program plans, lead strategic objectives, influence multi-level business strategies, resolve critical mission gaps, and drive missionized architectures to achieve disruptive tactical advantages and effects on adversarial competition. This candidate’s contributions will span across multiple UAS platforms including Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), Longshot, Small UAS platforms, Expendable UAS platforms, NexGen ISR, and Legacy Platform variants such as MQ-1 & MQ-9A/B.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan and lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business and strategic objectives, allocating technical resources, meeting critical program milestones, and successfully executing programs within the defined cost and schedule.
• Lead and support software development teams through the software development lifecycle using Agile best practices.
• Oversee subcontractor technical scope by defining subsystems requirements, writing Statements of Work, performing technical evaluation, and aligning subcontractor deliverables with overall program milestones.
• Identify, manage, and develop mitigations for risks at a system level.
• Support technology initiatives such as Open Architectures (OMS, FACE, etc.), Autonomy & Artificial Intelligence, onboard fusion, track management, resource management, and Human Factor’s based HMI design.
• Foster a collaborative environment and build consensus for technical solutions between GA functional engineering departments, program management, external GA P&Ls, and customer stakeholders.
• Represent programs as the engineering lead, ensuring consistent and appropriate messaging to external customer stakeholders, PoR representatives across the DoD, industry partners, subcontractors, and senior internal/executive stakeholders.
• Write and support proposal technical volumes and engineering estimates.
• Perform system-level analysis and trade studies, generate requirements, and develop system architecture and designs.
• Generate and present technical review data packages, such as System Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), and Critical Design Reviews (CDR), to customers and executive leadership.