Vice President of Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Act as the leading engineering authority across the segment portfolio.

• Develop engineering standards, technical review procedures, and rigorous development practices for services and product organizations.

• Ensure that technical execution meets customer mission requirements, affordability goals, schedule commitments, and long-term product strategies.

• Promote engineering best practices across systems engineering, software, hardware, integration, testing, cybersecurity, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.

• Conduct independent technical evaluations and assist executives in making decisions regarding technical risks, investment priorities, and program execution.

• Facilitate the transition from custom engineering efforts to scalable, repeatable product solutions.

• Advocate for modular architectures, common product frameworks, reuse strategies, and product commonality.

• Collaborate with manufacturing and operations to enhance producibility, reliability, and lifecycle affordability.

• Lead engineering alignment with initiatives aimed at speed, agility, commercialization, and rapid deployment.

• Work alongside the CTO to execute enterprise engineering strategies, processes, tools, governance, digital engineering, MBSE, and product development standards.

• Assist in workforce planning, recruitment strategies, succession planning, and skill development.

• Shape future engineering structures, including Chief Engineer roles aligned with business units or product portfolios.

• Encourage accountability, innovation, technical excellence, collaboration, and a focus on mission objectives.

• Partner with business unit leaders, program management, manufacturing and supply chain, quality, finance, growth and capture, security, and contracts.

• Aid customer engagements, technical roadmap discussions, milestone reviews, and strategic captures.

• Engage in executive operating rhythms, program reviews, investment assessments, and annual operating planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field is required.

• Over 15 years of progressive engineering leadership experience in defense, aerospace, space, directed energy, RF systems, autonomous systems, or related national security sectors.

• Proven experience in leading complex engineering organizations that support both development and production environments.

• Strong expertise in systems engineering, product development, and transitioning to manufacturing.

• Experience in high-growth, fast-paced technology organizations.

• Capability to balance technical rigor with urgency in execution.

• Proven experience collaborating across enterprise engineering and business leadership organizations.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively engage with executives, customers, and technical teams.

• Top Secret/SCI Clearance or the capability to obtain clearance.

• Experience with defense acquisition programs, rapid prototyping initiatives, and productized defense systems.

• Familiarity with digital engineering, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and contemporary product development environments.

• Experience scaling engineering organizations post-acquisition or integration activities.

• Background in supporting products transitioning from R&D to operational deployment and production scaling.

• Must qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR/EAR or be approved for an export license.

• Some positions may require current U.S. Citizenship to meet contract requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401K with company matching.

• 9/80 work schedule.

• Paid holiday shutdown.