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Director of Avionics
| Company | Ursa Major |
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| Location | Loveland, CO, USA |
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| Salary | $220000 – $260000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in aerospace, electrical, or software engineering.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, startup environment.
- Experience writing and reviewing requirements.
- Design or development experience in one or more of the following areas: Mechanical design, Electrical circuit design, Actuator / motor design, Embedded product software design.
- Working knowledge of industry accepted aerospace-level hardware and software qualification requirements.
- Experience in root-cause analysis.
Responsibilities
- Manage an avionics team through direct mentorship, coaching, and guidance to successfully hit internal and external program and project milestones.
- Provide a technology and product roadmap that translates to a team mission and direction on a quarterly and annual basis.
- Plan and execute hiring ahead of program needs. Maintain an up to date hiring model.
- Engage in technical mentorship and training with team members to broaden and enhance skillsets and capabilities within the group to create a world-class avionics team.
- Develop and maintain a proper software quality control plan and implement this across all products.
- Be the outward facing contact for customer questions regarding our avionics and software quality, design, and risks.
- Internal ownership of product and schedule risks & risk mitigation plans. Ownership, direction, and communication of failure analyses as necessary to sufficient root cause.
- Contribute technical work as possible where technical, staffing, or experience-related gaps exist on the team.
- Work with other directors and leaders at Ursa Major to develop & maintain common engineering processes.
- Develop and maintain component-level qualification and acceptance test plan strategies for all avionics hardware across all programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years’ experience in aerospace-grade avionics design, development, and testing.
- Demonstrated success as project or team lead across multiple programs.
- Exemplary written and verbal communication skills.
- Hiring & building teams from scratch to 30+ people.
- Experience working at a small company / startup environment.
- Development of avionics hardware systems from prototype to production-capable / flight-worthy hardware.
