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Develop and qualify materials and manufacturing processes for flight-critical autonomous aircraft hardware. Maintain material, process, and QA specifications; guide fatigue and corrosion prevention; support environmental qualification testing; design qualification test plans; collaborate with suppliers and multifunctional teams; assist with nonconformance disposition; and select materials and processes for production.

Leads integration, verification, and flight testing of autonomous aircraft systems across simulation, laboratory, ground, and flight environments. Develops test plans, coordinates readiness, defines objectives and metrics, manages technical and safety risks, supports aircraft and software integration, troubleshoots during flight operations, analyzes post-flight data, and drives corrective actions. Collaborates with engineering teams, OEMs, government customers, flight operations personnel, and test ranges to mature Hivemind autonomy capabilities.

Leads sustainment analytics for fielded aircraft systems by integrating maintenance, reliability, supply-chain, labor, fleet, and cost data. Develops readiness and availability models, repair-versus-replace analyses, spares forecasts, manpower and capacity studies, lifecycle-cost models, and investment trade studies. Uses statistical and scenario analysis to identify downtime drivers, bottlenecks, readiness risks, and cost opportunities. Communicates recommendations through executive briefings and establishes repeatable analytics processes supporting predictive and condition-based maintenance.

Designs, configures, tests, and sustains complex networks for hardware-in-the-loop laboratories, simulations, and aerospace defense programs. Develops network automation, configuration-as-code, observability, and CI/CD tooling; integrates hardware, radios, sensors, flight computers, and simulators; executes performance and interoperability testing; troubleshoots distributed systems; maintains network documentation and baselines; and supports customer demonstrations and operational evaluations.

Lead capture strategy and operations for X-BAT defense pursuits. Develop capture strategies, proposal storylines, win themes, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, white papers, presentations, trackers, dashboards, and operating cadences. Coordinate technical, business, finance, legal, international, and product teams across concurrent efforts. Improve capture processes, manage proposal milestones and reviews, and ensure high-quality, aligned customer-facing materials for domestic and international defense opportunities.

Leads capture strategy and operations for X-BAT pursuits, developing proposal strategies, win themes, customer-facing solicitation responses, leadership presentations, trackers, dashboards, and execution plans. Coordinates technical, program, business development, finance, legal, international, and product teams while managing deadlines, quality control, reviews, process improvements, and reusable capture resources. Requires strong analytical, writing, editing, PowerPoint, and cross-functional collaboration skills, plus defense or government pursuit experience and eligibility for a security clearance.

Leads the integrated operating system for Shield AI’s international X-BAT pursuits. Owns portfolio-wide campaign planning, critical paths, approval dependencies, risk registers, executive dashboards, resource conflicts, investment prioritization, and operating cadence. Enables regional and country GTM leaders by coordinating engineering, product, export, legal, finance, government relations, and business operations. This pre-award role supports international defense captures and does not own customer-funded program execution after award.

Leads Shield AI’s field marketing organization across the Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific. Develops regional strategy, scales teams, executes account-based marketing, manages major defense events, supports capture and sales efforts, builds executive stakeholder relationships, and drives pipeline impact. The role requires expertise in international aerospace and defense markets, government and military procurement environments, multi-country team leadership, and extensive international travel.

Analyzes and manages the X-BAT opportunity pipeline across near- and long-term horizons. Maintains Salesforce data integrity, reporting standards, dashboards, and forecast visibility. Partners with Capture, Finance, business development, and program teams to evaluate opportunities, identify pipeline risks, support revenue planning, and recommend portfolio actions. Coordinates data corrections, scenario analysis, risk mitigation, and recurring pipeline-to-finance reviews.

Deploys, integrates, configures, troubleshoots, and supports airborne vision and detection systems across laboratory, production, customer, and field environments. Performs hardware and software integration, wiring and electro-mechanical work, system testing, configuration management, documentation, customer training, and field-service logistics. Coordinates with engineering, production, quality, program, and customer teams while supporting deployments and demonstrations. Requires approximately 50% travel and ability to obtain a Secret clearance.