Teams at Kraken Kinetics

Owns subcontracting and supplier agreements for a defense manufacturer. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, implementing FAR/DFARS flowdowns, managing representations and certifications, allocating commercial and legal risk, supporting supplier disputes, and building contracting playbooks and processes. The role partners with Supply Chain, Program Management, Engineering, Finance, Business Development, and Export Compliance while advising leadership on material risks.

Develop and execute electrical, mechanical, firmware, environmental, subsystem, and integrated system testing across the product lifecycle. Translate requirements into verification methods, build fixtures and instrumentation, automate data acquisition and analysis, troubleshoot failures, document results, and improve test repeatability. Collaborate across systems, mechanical, electrical, firmware, manufacturing, and program teams while helping establish scalable verification processes and transition engineering methods into production acceptance testing.

Develop and manage system requirements, architectures, interfaces, verification strategies, technical baselines, and engineering documentation for advanced defense products. Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, firmware, test, manufacturing, and program teams. Mature systems engineering processes and implement Jama Connect requirements workflows, traceability, reviews, baselines, and templates. Mentor junior engineers and support design, test, production, compliance, and technical reviews.