Senior AI/ML Engineering Manager – Digital Engineering AI Enablement and Automation (AEA) (Onsite)

RTX•Cedar Rapids, IA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Collins Aerospace, a business unit of RTX Corporation, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Digital Engineering AI Enablement and Automation (AEA). The role leads efforts to improve engineering efficiency across Collins Aerospace by applying artificial intelligence and solution automation. Its objectives include accelerating cycle times, reducing lifecycle costs and technical debt, and improving reusability across business units and engineering disciplines. The manager leads and develops an engineering team, supports its technical work, and helps deliver predictable program results. The position also shapes future engineering work through bids, proposals, estimates, staffing plans, and technical strategies; builds partnerships across engineering, value stream leadership, programs, and customers; and champions AI-driven solutions and automation for manual engineering tasks. The posting describes the role as onsite in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and requires U.S. citizenship because access to program information is restricted to U.S. citizens.

Requirements

A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), unless prohibited by local laws or regulations, and at least 10 years of relevant experience; alternatively, an advanced degree in a related field and at least 7 years of experience.
Leadership and team-building skills.
U.S. citizenship, because only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under the program or contract.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with aerospace security and compliance constraints, such as ITAR/EAR and on-premises or private-cloud deployments.
Experience and evidence of measurable impact from AI initiatives, such as reduced cycle time, improved code quality, or scaled best practices.

Responsibilities

Serve the team by building trust, listening, removing obstacles, providing clarity, and empowering engineers to take ownership.
Coach team members, provide meaningful feedback, recognize performance, support career development, and help employees pursue growth opportunities.
Participate in the design, development, coding, integration, testing, and debugging of embedded software, and help resolve challenging technical issues.
Recruit talent, strengthen team capabilities, foster a welcoming and collaborative culture, and connect employees’ work to the mission.
Help teams set priorities, anticipate risks, remove roadblocks, deliver predictably, and continuously improve execution.
Lead and contribute to engineering bids, proposals, estimates, staffing plans, and technical strategies.
Collaborate across programs and engineering teams to share talent, technology, lessons learned, and best practices.
Build trusted partnerships across Collins Engineering, Value Stream Leadership, program teams, and customers, maintaining transparency about priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities.
Identify manual engineering tasks that can be optimized or replaced with AI-driven solutions and automation.
Drive engineering efficiency, faster cycle times, lower lifecycle costs, reduced technical debt, and increased reusability across Collins Aerospace.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
401(k) plan with employer matching and a separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
Tuition reimbursement program.
Student Loan Repayment Program.
Life insurance and disability coverage.
Optional pet, home and auto, additional life and accident, critical illness, group legal, and identity theft protection coverages.
Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.
Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning benefits.
Adoption Assistance.
Autism Benefit.
Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program.
Doctor On Demand virtual doctor visits.
Bright Horizons child and elder care services.
Teladoc Medical Experts second-opinion program.
Possible relocation eligibility.
Flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and holidays may be available, depending on business unit and collective-bargaining coverage.
Applicants may be eligible for annual short- and/or long-term incentive compensation, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage; payments are not guaranteed.