Principal Engineer, cUAS Lead, Omen

Highlights

• Own Omen’s airborne counter-UAS effector payload end to end.
• Build hover-to-cruise Group 3 tail-sitter for runway independence.
• Lead live ground and flight tests including range events.

Ideal candidate

Veteran hardware leader who thrives owning complex electromechanical systems end-to-end and building teams from scratch. Hands-on, mission-driven engineer excited to field counter-drone capability from moving aircraft to production.

Requirements

• 10+ years designing electromechanical hardware from concept to production
• Background in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering
• Experience leading and hiring multidisciplinary hardware teams
• Deep mechanical design for high transient loads, precision mechanisms and tolerance stack-ups
• Experience sizing actuators for precision pointing and control bandwidth tradeoffs
• Experience with vibration and shock isolation and dynamic analysis
• Experience selecting and characterizing ranging sensors such as radar, lidar, EO/IR
• Hands-on test experience from rig design and instrumentation through data analysis