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Leads the mechanical engineering discipline for UAV and aerospace product development. Manages engineers, budgets, staffing, workload, mentoring, performance, and career development while overseeing requirements, aeromechanical design, testing, manufacturing integration, quality, schedules, and customer relationships. Supports active projects, proposals, emerging concepts, and product transitions to deployment while ensuring hardware meets requirements on time and within budget.

Manages the systems engineering discipline and team within an aerospace organization. Responsibilities include staffing, budgeting, workload planning, technical guidance, requirements traceability, systems safety, test planning, flight-test data acquisition, performance evaluation, and continuous process improvement. The role supports product development from concept through production, coordinates with customers and engineering functions, and develops team capabilities and career paths. This is a fully on-site position in San Luis Obispo, California.

Manages front-desk operations, greets visitors, handles phone inquiries, schedules meetings and appointments, maintains office supplies, enforces visitor sign-in procedures, supports HR onboarding and offboarding, and prepares recurring reports. The role requires strong communication, organization, multitasking, independent judgment, and problem-solving skills in a fully onsite office environment.

Manages a software engineering team while contributing as an embedded software engineer. Responsibilities include staffing, budgeting, mentoring, performance management, product design, Agile development planning, software implementation, regulatory documentation, testing, debugging, and certification. Requires expertise in C, RTOS, I/O drivers, microcontrollers, and embedded software development across multiple engineering projects. The role is fully onsite in San Luis Obispo, California, with occasional domestic travel.

Administers and negotiates subcontracts and other contractual documents, evaluates clause and project risks, supports project managers and supply chain, ensures compliance with contractual and procurement requirements, manages changes, claims, disputes, closeouts, and contract records, and coordinates with counsel and leadership on significant issues.

Leads multidisciplinary flight sciences engineering teams covering GNC, CFD, flight simulation, and aerodynamic performance. Provides technical oversight, mission-readiness reviews, architecture ownership, mentorship, staffing, and career development. Oversees HIL verification and validation, embedded flight-control software deployment, wind-tunnel campaigns, flight testing, and readiness reviews. Requires extensive aerospace vehicle development experience, leadership background, advanced aerodynamics and flight-controls expertise, and proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink, CFD tools, and C/C++.

Leads full-cycle recruitment for technical, professional, and executive roles. Develops sourcing strategies, builds active and passive candidate pipelines, screens and interviews candidates, presents qualified applicants to hiring managers, and advises leaders on compliant recruiting practices. The role also supports staffing-function improvement projects, manages candidates throughout selection, and builds relationships with executives, hiring managers, colleagues, and candidates. This position is fully on-site and requires U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status.

Provides strategic administrative and operational support to engineering leadership. Manages departmental workflows, reporting cadences, action-item tracking, capacity planning, metrics, compliance, budgets, software licenses, procurement, and process improvements. Coordinates across Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and executive leadership while developing dashboards and executive summaries.

The Project Manager oversees project schedules, budgets, customer relations, and risk mitigation while ensuring quality and regulatory standards are met.

Serve as the technical lead connecting design, program management, and manufacturing: plan and execute engineering projects, manage schedule/budget/quality, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, drive issue resolution, maintain documentation/ECRs/BOMs, support hardware testing and build readiness, ensure compliance, assess risks, and mentor junior engineers.