Customer Chief Engineer

Job Description:

V2X is seeking a Customer Chief Engineer to join our Engineering team in Indianapolis, IN that will be the direct program and technical liaison with the DoD customer(s) and external stakeholders. This Customer Chief Engineer at V2X plays a critical role deriving a conceptual design from vague guidance and providing an achievable vision from this conceptual design phase through completion of a product. The ideal candidate embraces modern development processes and techniques that improve product quality & team productivity. We are looking for engineers that enjoy a challenge and have a passion to support our DoD customers and international allies.

Our Indianapolis facility also supports a variety of other product lines serving multiple Department of Defense (DoD) customers providing the opportunity to work on a diverse set of programs and roles supporting the continued advancement of your career.

This position is associated with a rapid response customer requiring innovative solutions to meet technical and schedule demands. The travel is expected to be between 30% and 50% but will fluctuate depending on program demands.

Other responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Customer Focused Business Growth
  
  
  
  • Work with customer and end user to understand real goals and problem that solve customer needs and generate new business opportunities for V2X
  • Drive new business growth through proactive engagement to identify on-contract growth (ECPs), lead white paper development, engineering estimations, and proposal responses.
  • Primary program technical POC with the customer technical counterpart
  
  
  
  
• Internal Team Engagement
  
  
  
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, architecture, and design.
  • Lead system integration efforts, working closely with software engineers, hardware designers, and other stakeholders.
  • Engagement within V2X with business development and Program Area Chief Engineer on shaping business strategy
  
  
  
  
• Program Technical Leadership and Engagement
  
  
  
  • Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, components, and tools for system development.
  • Ensure compliance with defense standards, regulations, and security protocols.
  • Engagement with customers, teammates, and suppliers for technology and pursuit development.
  • Stay informed about emerging technologies and industry trends relevant to defense market and specifically V2X business area
  • Establishes and maintains the program technical baseline, ensuring the product meets the contractual and end-user needs and can be executed within program budget and schedule.
  • Provide technical guidance to project teams throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Conduct risk assessments and propose mitigation strategies.
  • Participate in system testing, validation, and verification activities.
  
  
  
  

Required Skills:

• Experience providing leadership, technical direction, and guidance to multi-discipline teams.
• Experience in engaging and shaping vision with DoD requirements officers and system owners
• Experience with DoD platform, weapons, avionics, or tactical systems and/or military platforms, architectures, capabilities, and missions
• Demonstrated successful military vehicle and weapon system integration experience
• Experience with digital engineering transformation activities and modern product development methods
• Experience with communicating in various levels of our DoD customer including end user, acquisition community and requirement officers
• Experience with various DoD data interfaces including unique to vehicles and weapons
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Extensive experience in capture management: creating/reviewing RFPs, SOWs, BOEs, tech volumes, proposals
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams
• Experience on DoD Internal Research and Development (IRAD, Customer Research and Development (CRAD), Technical Demonstration (TD), System Development and Demonstration (SDD) or Engineering, Manufacturing, & Development (EMD) Programs
• Ability to take ownership of the engineering scope within the program and drive the necessary tasks to ultimately ensure the cross-function team meets the program requirements.
• Experience managing suppliers and overseeing the development of subsystems and components.
• In-depth understanding of the System Engineering Lifecycle and processes.
• Demonstrated sound ethical values built upon trust, respect, accountability, collaboration and innovation.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated understanding of RF communication principles
• Demonstrated understanding of Radar principles
• Experience using DOORS, MagicDraw, or other requirements management and system architecture tools
• Experience with DoD open systems architecture and protocols (FACE, SOSA, MOSA, etc.)
• Experience with manufacturing readiness and transitioning products from development to production.
• Experience with Agile software development including previous roles as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master.
• Current/active DoD Secret level or higher clearance
• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering methods, tools, and languages.

Desired Certifications:

• Systems Engineering Certification

Education / Experience Requirements:

• B.S. in Engineering, or related Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) degree program
• At least ten (10) years of related engineering experience in systems, software, or hardware engineering