# Program Chief Engineer, Solid Missile Systems

The future of aerospace and defense starts here. Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands. The Program Chief Engineer (Senior Responsible Engineer (RE)) for Solid Missile Systems (SMS) serves as the program’s technical lead, directing a multidisciplinary team of design, systems, analysis, and manufacturing engineers through all phases of SRM development and deployment. In coordination with the Program Manager and under the authority of the SRM Chief Engineer, the RE establishes and manages product architecture, ensures disciplined application of systems engineering practices, and drives design maturity, analytical fidelity, and risk reduction. Core responsibilities include performing and delegating detailed design and analysis tasks, coordinating special studies, and overseeing material characterization, subsystem qualification, and full system-level qualification and verification. The RE also partners with SMS leader

- **Id**: 245381
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ursa-major-senior-responsible-engineer-re-solid-missile-systems>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Berthoud, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-26T17:36:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T15:14:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 136
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6332
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Retirement plans, Unlimited PTO, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Missiles, Defense Manufacturing, Aerospace Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 58870
- **Name**: Ursa Major
- **Domain**: ursamajor.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ursa-major>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.813
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 118000
- **Max**: 147000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 147000

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 135

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T10:43:18Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 17
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.595
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 135
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, urgency, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 147000
- **Is top pay**: no

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