Chief Engineer

What You Will Do:

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• As a deeply technical and cross-functional leader, the Chief Engineer will 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 on-going and new business product development. Collaborate with customers, guiding the development of internal technical roadmaps to meet evolving customer needs and ensure Korry remains at the forefront of innovation.
• Play a pivotal role in driving overall system architecture, primarily focusing on how Hardware / Software interaction will meet customer requirements.
• Responsible for supporting a team of system, hardware, and software engineers in the development of avionics products while also supporting the servicing of already fielded products.
• Significantly contribute to end-to-end product development, spanning all aspect of the product life cycle: from product concept inception strategy, requirements validation, product development, design, testing, certification, product delivery and to post-delivery support.
• Drive a culture of proactive cross-functional technical oversight and rapid issue resolution, proposing alternative paths and maintaining open and honest dialogue on technical issues across all functions.
• Serve as technical authority on applicable Product and engineering boards.
• Lead and/or approves 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, having decision authority over Engineering activities.
• Support technical discussions at every level internally and externally.
• Support the creation of executable Estimates at Completion (EAC) for the program in collaboration with the responsible Engineering leaders.
• Oversee engineering Risks and Opportunities across the programs, leveraging the enterprise to mitigate key risks and capture opportunities.
• 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.
• Fully onsite working position; some travel will be required.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• 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 in the defense, commercial or related industries.
• 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 and system trades.
• Ability to perform system analysis to ensure subsystem specifications, when all tied together, 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.

Skills and Abilities:

• 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.

Salary Range:

• Please note the typical hiring range is $180,000-260,000 annually. Job offers within the range are based on significant job qualifications and pay equity.

Benefits Package Details for Regular Full-time Employees:

• 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)

Eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.

This position requires access to export control information. To conform to US Export Control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US Government.

Korry Electronics is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, marital status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, childbirth, genetic information, or military and veteran status.