What You Will Do: 

As a Chief Engineer, you will be a technical pillar for new product development programs, strategic product initiatives and a prime technical advisor. Your experience will be utilized to review technical proposals and communicate technical topics with company leadership, customers, and suppliers. You will be a challenger in technical design reviews, and strategy discussions. You will support various activities including system analysis, conceptual architecture, functional analysis, interface definition, trade studies, and system testing strategies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• As a deeply technical and cross-functional leader, the Chief Engineer will lead critical design decisions, conduct trade studies, and translate customer requirements into actionable system and subsystem concepts.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers, stakeholders, peers, and partnering organizations for on-going and new business product development. Collaborate with customers, guiding the development of internal technical roadmaps to meet evolving customer needs and ensure Korry remains at the forefront of innovation.
• Play a pivotal role in driving overall system architecture, primarily focusing on how Hardware / Software interaction will meet customer requirements.
• Responsible for supporting a team of system, hardware, and software engineers in the development of avionics products while also supporting the servicing of already fielded products.
• Significantly contribute to end-to-end product development, spanning all aspect of the product life cycle: from product concept inception strategy, requirements validation, product development, design, testing, certification, product delivery and to post-delivery support.
• Drive a culture of proactive cross-functional technical oversight and rapid issue resolution, proposing alternative paths and maintaining open and honest dialogue on technical issues across all functions.
• Serve as technical authority on applicable Product and engineering boards.
• Lead and/or approves root cause and corrective action (RCCA) activities.
• Review design changes and configuration control as well as creation, establishment and execution of design processes and standards.
• Provide oversight over Engineering execution within the program, having decision authority over Engineering activities.
• Support technical discussions at every level internally and externally.
• Support the creation of executable Estimates at Completion (EAC) for the program in collaboration with the responsible Engineering leaders.
• Oversee engineering Risks and Opportunities across the programs, leveraging the enterprise to mitigate key risks and capture opportunities.
• Identify and exploit synergies across programs and across the organization.
• Provide technical oversight of the status reports to Program and Engineering organizations.
• Responsible for the design artifacts supporting the Certification dossier.
• Fully onsite working position; some travel will be required.

 Preferred Education & Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in system engineering, hardware design, and technical leadership roles for avionics, or related products in the defense, commercial or related industries.
• Proven expertise in system architecture design, with a strong emphasis on combined hardware/software systems and systems integration.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive decisions on complex technical issues and system trades.
• Ability to perform system analysis to ensure subsystem specifications, when all tied together, meet product requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with SAE ARP4754 and ARP4761, RTCA DO-178, DO-254 and DO-160.
• Experience with DOD qualification requirements and methodology is a plus. 

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent team player.
• Knowledge of process-heavy design environment.
• Excellent root cause analysis and problem solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize work in a fast paced, high product mix environment.
• Thorough understanding of formal configuration management.
• Knowledge of product life cycle flow management.
• Excellent oral and written communication.

Salary Range:

• Please note the typical hiring range is $180,000-260,000 annually. Job offers within the range are based on significant job qualifications and pay equity.