Staff Operations Engineer

Reaxiomatic•San Diego, CA

86d•Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Operations Engineer is responsible for acquiring, modifying, certifying, and maintaining an initial safety-critical operational system that will expand into a small fleet. This role owns the operational integrity of those assets across their lifecycle, including regulatory compliance, modification programs, maintenance planning, and operational availability. The position requires deep technical understanding of complex systems, the ability to rapidly develop operational frameworks from scratch, and the judgment to navigate highly regulated environments while enabling unconventional use cases.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience acquiring, modifying, and maintaining fleets used for non-standard missions within highly regulated environments.
Ability to rapidly learn complex technical systems to the component and subsystem level, including how those systems interact with regulatory and operational constraints.
Experience designing and implementing operations and maintenance programs from the ground up, including inspection, maintenance, and availability planning.
Experience modifying safety-critical or regulated systems for mission profiles outside their original certification or design assumptions.
Proven ability to operate with high personal ownership over physical assets and their operational readiness, including vendor coordination and technical decision-making.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing large or operationally complex fleets while maintaining rapid development or deployment timelines.
Background in organizations known for building and fielding real hardware systems under aggressive schedules.

Responsibilities

Acquiring, modifying, certifying, and maintaining an initial safety-critical operational system that will expand into a small fleet.
Owning the operational integrity of assets across their lifecycle, including regulatory compliance, modification programs, maintenance planning, and operational availability.
Designing and implementing operations and maintenance programs from the ground up, including inspection, maintenance, and availability planning.
Modifying safety-critical or regulated systems for mission profiles outside their original certification or design assumptions.
Operating with high personal ownership over physical assets and their operational readiness, including vendor coordination and technical decision-making.
Ensuring safe and compliant operation of fleet assets.
Defining and executing maintenance programs.
Coordinating and validating modifications.
Maintaining regulatory standing.
Maximizing asset availability for operational use.
Working closely with engineering teams responsible for related systems to ensure that integrated system performance meets program objectives.
Functioning as the product manager for the operational domain, balancing technical development, operational readiness, regulatory constraints, and mission requirements.