Jobs at Areté

Leads technical program planning, execution, scheduling, delivery, risk mitigation, business development, manpower planning, and proposal development for maritime airborne systems. Bridges engineering, production, and management while coordinating stakeholders, maintaining project plans and status reports, supporting financial tracking, and presenting program reviews. Requires extensive program management experience, DoD acquisition knowledge, electro-optical and gimbal design experience, and familiarity with project, financial, labor-tracking, and collaboration tools.

Lead engineering program execution across design, development, and production teams for complex defense programs. Manage integrated schedules, cost tracking, risks, opportunities, manpower planning, technical reviews, production introduction, proposals, and customer briefings. Provide technical direction while coordinating engineering, production, program management, customers, and government stakeholders. Support the full program lifecycle and ensure technical, cost, and schedule objectives are met.

Develop and maintain production-quality software for advanced sensing and data analysis. Design, prototype, test, optimize, and integrate signal and image processing algorithms into scalable architectures and operational systems. Responsibilities may include computer vision, sonar processing, object detection and tracking, sensor characterization, machine learning, data pipelines, and physics-based modeling. The role requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and onsite work in Tucson, Arizona.

Designs, integrates, tests, and validates electro-optic mechanical stabilized systems. Responsibilities include requirements decomposition and traceability, performance analysis, trade studies, test planning, system integration, troubleshooting, configuration documentation, CONOPS development, and presenting results at design reviews. The role collaborates with hardware, software, production, program, and customer teams and supports testing at multiple sites.

Develop and implement features, resolve bugs, and conduct system testing for gimbal sensor systems using embedded processors, circuit boards, and test equipment. Participate in Scrum and agile development with cross-functional software and hardware teams. The role requires C++ and embedded development, Linux fundamentals, independent work, and collaboration across multiple projects. Preferred experience includes RTOS, cross-platform development, serial communication protocols, threading, synchronization, networking, and active security clearance.

Manage configuration and data management across the product lifecycle, including document, software, drawing, and product configuration control. Develop release processes, track project data packages, prepare engineering change notices and proposals, maintain bills of materials, and manage deviations and waivers. The role supports systems engineering, engineering management, and program management teams while ensuring compliance with SAE EIA-649, ISO 9001, and related defense industry standards.

Supports integration, verification, validation, qualification, and troubleshooting of electro-optical, electro-mechanical, and embedded systems. Responsibilities include executing and improving test procedures, operating laboratory instrumentation, analyzing test data, performing root-cause investigations, developing basic automation scripts, assembling prototypes, maintaining test equipment and configuration-controlled records, and supporting engineering reviews. The role is designed for recent engineering graduates and includes mentorship with occasional travel up to 20%.

Designs, models, documents, assembles, and tests custom mechanical systems and components. Responsibilities include developing specifications, performing calculations and simulations, creating manufacturing and assembly drawings, supporting fabrication, conducting design reviews, and assisting with laboratory and field testing. The role requires hands-on machine shop and hardware integration work, with occasional outdoor testing, lifting, and 10–20% travel. Undersea, airborne, robotics, mechatronics, and autonomous or unmanned vehicle experience is preferred.

Design, build, document, troubleshoot, and integrate electrical test equipment, PCBs, cables, harnesses, and electro-optic systems. Diagnose motors, drives, sensors, power supplies, embedded controllers, and communication interfaces using electronic test equipment. Coordinate technical execution across engineering disciplines, support design verification and system-level testing, and communicate technical risks and trade-offs. The role requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for classified information access.

Develops and manages integrated project schedules for defense programs, analyzing critical paths, schedule risks, resource needs, variances, and earned value metrics. Coordinates schedules across finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, subcontractors, and program teams. Maintains program baselines, tracks deliverables and inventory, recommends corrective actions, ensures process compliance, and leads scheduling reviews and briefings with senior leaders and customers.

Leads a portfolio of advanced solid-state laser and lidar/ladar development programs for defense and security applications. Oversees program managers, aligns resources and execution, manages customer relationships with government and DoD prime organizations, and ensures compliance within FAR/DFARS environments. Responsibilities also include proposal development, capture strategy, negotiations, technology roadmapping, and delivery oversight across complex electro-optical programs.

Own end-to-end vulnerability remediation across diverse systems and networks, including scanning, risk prioritization, patch qualification, deployment, rollback planning, rescanning, and closure validation. Coordinate maintenance windows and remediation timelines with system owners, manage exceptions and accepted risks, automate scanning and reporting workflows, maintain procedures and metrics, and communicate status to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. The role requires active Top Secret clearance, onsite work in Falls Church, occasional travel, and after-hours support.

Support configuration and data management across the product lifecycle, including document, software, drawing, revision, release, and archival control. Develop configuration release processes, track project data, prepare engineering change notices and proposals, manage deviations, waivers, and bills of materials, and coordinate with engineering, systems integration, testing, manufacturing, and program teams. Ensure compliance with SAE EIA-649, ISO 9001, and related industry standards while driving process improvement.

Lead system design, integration, testing, validation, and requirements management for complex security systems. Test algorithms and GUIs, troubleshoot subsystem interfaces, document defects, maintain issue traceability, write specifications, manage change requests, and communicate risks to engineering teams and stakeholders. Guide technical alignment with program objectives while working autonomously in Agile and CI/CD environments.

Leads and coordinates electrical engineering activities for advanced electromechanical systems, including precision motion control, embedded electronics, sensors, integration, testing, and production transition. Translates requirements into execution plans, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages technical risks, supports design reviews and customer discussions, and troubleshoots system-level issues through verification and qualification.

Supports manufacturing engineering, mechanical design improvements, tooling, assembly procedures, production transitions, and continuous process improvement for ruggedized electro-optical and laser systems. Operates shaker-table testing, analyzes vibration and shock data, investigates mechanical nonconformances, supports ERP-based manufacturing orders, and collaborates with engineering, quality, production, and program teams. The role also ensures manufacturability, environmental robustness, safety compliance, and production hardware reliability.

Performs ISSO and cybersecurity duties for classified information systems, including RMF documentation, security control assessments, continuous monitoring, audits, risk analysis, configuration management, incident response, and inspection preparation. The role requires an active Top Secret clearance with SCI access and CI polygraph eligibility, IAT Level II certification, Windows hardening knowledge, familiarity with cybersecurity tools and STIGs, occasional travel, after-hours support, and on-site work in Northridge or Tucson.

Develop and maintain interactive desktop and web GUI applications for mission management, data analysis, and visualization. Build front-end interfaces using Python, PyQt, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS; design prototypes; collaborate in Agile-like teams; and support applications across Windows and Linux. The role requires strong communication, multidisciplinary technical knowledge, onsite work, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for TS/SCI access.

Develops and manages integrated project schedules for defense programs, coordinating program management, engineering, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality teams. Performs critical path, schedule risk, variance, network logic, resource, and earned value analyses. Tracks deliverables, inventory, budgets, and program baselines; identifies corrective actions; integrates subcontractor schedules; and presents status and risks to senior leaders and customers. Provides scheduling guidance and training while ensuring compliance with program procedures and project control standards.

Design, build, and test electro-optic and robotic systems integrating hardware such as sensors, drones, lasers, lidar, communications equipment, and FPGAs with software. Develop embedded and real-time control solutions, write hardware-interface code, conduct field testing, optimize system performance, and support prototypes through production readiness. Collaborate across disciplines on computer vision, motion control, and real-time data acquisition projects.