Chief Engineer

Korry Electronics • Everett, WA

345d • $180,000 - $260,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to perform system analysis to ensure subsystem specifications 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 ongoing and new business product development.
• Collaborate with customers, guiding the development of internal technical roadmaps to meet evolving customer needs.
• Drive overall system architecture, focusing on Hardware/Software interaction to meet customer requirements.
• Support a team of system, hardware, and software engineers in the development of avionics products.
• Contribute to end-to-end product development, spanning all aspects of the product life cycle.
• Drive a culture of proactive cross-functional technical oversight and rapid issue resolution.
• Serve as technical authority on applicable Product and engineering boards.
• Lead and/or approve 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.
• Support technical discussions at every level internally and externally.
• Support the creation of executable Estimates at Completion (EAC) for the program.
• Oversee engineering Risks and Opportunities across the programs.
• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous company contribution
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) matching
• 12 paid holidays
• Minimum of three weeks paid time off plus one week paid sick time to start
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Short term and long term disability
• Life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Long-term care plan options
• Prescription safety shoe & glasses benefit
• Vanpool subsidy
• Recognition awards
• Employee referral bonuses
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree