Responsibilities
- Collaborate with diverse engineering and technical specialists across the full lifecycle of autonomous underwater vehicles, including integration, testing, verification, and demonstrations.
- Ensure programs meet technical specifications, timelines, and budgetary targets.
- Drive technical performance by deeply understanding system behavior, managing incident resolution and post-event reviews, using data to identify improvement areas, measuring impact of investments, and clearly communicating system status to stakeholders.
- Define project scope and oversee scope changes throughout project duration.
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks.
- Create and manage detailed project schedules.
- Support contract management tasks such as statements of work, change orders, financial tracking, terms and conditions, and data rights.
- Oversee deliverables, including regular progress reporting and final handover to customers.
- Independently interpret and execute on broad or unclear requirements from external clients.
- Take full ownership of assigned workstreams and deliverables.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with engineering teams to enable technical success.
- Engage with international clients and represent the technical capabilities of maritime systems.
- Advocate for customer needs during follow-on business development activities.
- Assist engineering teams during integration, testing, and debugging in fast-moving environments.
- Lead formal test planning by developing test strategies, identifying required resources, and coordinating logistics.
- Direct offshore autonomous underwater vehicle test operations, which may span several days or extend to multiple weeks.
- Travel internationally 25% to 40% of the time to support customer interactions and field testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in systems engineering or a related discipline, with a strong interest in hardware development.
- Minimum of seven years of experience in robotics, with a focus on technical project management or systems engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant sector.
- Ability to perform system testing, integration, and troubleshooting.
- Proven experience guiding product development from Technology Readiness Level 3 to 8.
- Familiarity with government contracting frameworks and reporting requirements.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
- Superior communication abilities.
- Current and maintainable U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to Have
- Field experience operating robotic systems in offshore environments.
- Background integrating subsea sensor technologies.
- Knowledge of government acquisition procedures, reporting, and contract management.
- Experience working directly with international customers.
Work Arrangement
On-site
Team
Multidisciplinary team including product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations.
Other
- Regular international travel required approximately 25%-40% of the time.
- Must be able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Work involves leading offshore AUV test events, including multiple-day and occasional multiple-week deployments.
