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Chief Engineer, Fury Advanced Concepts

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-41)💼 Full-time💰 $253,000–$253,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical development, conceptual design, and flight testing of alternative configurations and new concepts for the Fury unmanned aircraft system.

Role type

Senior IC Chief Engineer (Aerospace/Systems)

Builds

Fury unmanned aircraft variants and new capabilities

Domain

Defense, Aerospace, Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | physical/clinical work

Required skills

aircraft system design, prototype and test, programmatic decision-making, technical team leadership, customer-facing technical discussions, trade studies, operational analysis, first principles design, system safety, test methodology, risk reduction, budgetary estimation, staffing planning

Preferred skills

unmanned aircraft system (UAS) design, integrating foreign vendor engineering and manufacturing teams, managing USG programs

Technologies

Lattice OS, Group 5 platform

Responsibilities

Own the design process from white paper sketches through detailed design and flight test; establish technical development roadmaps including scope, cost, and schedule; coordinate design level trades with functional engineering teams; execute trade studies and drive operational analysis; build and lead technical and programmatic teams; communicate vision and strategies to executive leadership and customers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with programmatic leadership

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