Sr Project Engineer

Sierra Nevada Corporation•Englewood, CO

32d•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you looking to use your engineering capabilities, project management and collective skills in your next position? We could use your expertise on our team! As a Senior Project Engineer you will lead complex engineering projects from inception to completion, ensuring technical excellence and timely delivery. You will act as a mentor to junior engineers, provide strategic direction, and interface with high-level stakeholders to drive project success. This role requires extensive technical expertise, advanced project management skills, and significant industry experience. The ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance), Aviation, and Security (IAS) business area is a leader in ISR and aviation, it is a leading prime manned and unmanned aircraft systems integrator for innovative, high-performance ISR and aviation systems. Its end-to-end Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities encompass design, integration, test, certification, ground/flight training and complete logistics support. IAS tailors solutions to customer cost, performance, and schedule requirements and designs to consistently exceed expectations – with an unrivaled record of on time and on (or under) budget deliveries.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
12+ years experience in engineering roles with at least 4+ years in a leadership role.
Advanced knowledge of engineering principles and practice.
Experience working in multi-disciplinary design and development team.
Comprehensive understanding of requirements management, system design, and integration.
Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary integration efforts for missile or guided weapon systems.
Hands-on experience with subsystem-level integration involving seeker sensors, datalinks, flight computers, or GNC algorithms.
Working knowledge of hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) architectures, test planning, and test execution.
Proven ability to lead technical teams through requirements decomposition, interface definition, and model/data validation.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Security Clearance.
U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance for employment.

Nice To Haves

Higher level relevant degree may substitute for experience.
Experience serving as IPT lead or subsystem integration lead on complex aerospace or defense programs.
6-8 years relevant leadership and/or project management experience.
Master's degree preferred.
Experience leading a multi-disciplinary design and development team and communicating with program management and customers.
Familiarity with preparation and development of project estimates, technical proposals, and program cost and schedule management.
Past history of leading baseline definition and maturation in a complex development setting, including the use of highly integrated trade studies and analysis of alternative.
Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and schematics, parts lists, specifications, instructions, and test procedure.
Experience or certification in International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) standard.
Experience with development, validation, and use of GNC models in MATLAB/Simulink or similar environments.
Prior involvement in building or executing HWIL test environments for missile or aerospace systems.
Familiarity with system-level integration challenges associated with missile guidance, navigation, control, and endgame performance.
Background in seeker algorithms, sensor fusion, datalink performance analysis, or embedded flight computing architectures in the Aerospace and Defense Industry.

Responsibilities

Lead Integrated Product Team (IPT) planning and execution for complex missile subsystem development and integration activities.
Coordinate cross-functional engineering efforts spanning seeker, datalink, flight computer, GNC, and HWIL teams to ensure synchronized development schedules.
Drive alignment between subsystem roadmaps and overall system-level development milestones.
Oversee technical integration of key missile subsystems, ensuring interface compatibility and end-to-end functional performance.
Review and validate subsystem engineering artifacts including ICDs, performance models, simulation results, and HWIL test plans.
Provide technical leadership in resolving multi-disciplinary issues related to seeker performance, datalink communication, flight computing, GNC modeling, and embedded software.