Director, Avionics Engineering, V-BAT

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team. Mentor and develop a multidisciplinary organization of electrical design engineers, root cause analysis engineers, and avionics build/test technicians, building career paths and technical depth…
• Set direction and drive execution. Establish team priorities, allocate resources against competing demands, and drive execution while fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Stay technical. Actively contribute to design development and reviews, hands-on root cause analysis, and the definition and validation of corrective actions — leading by technical example, not just management.
• Own investigations end to end. Lead cross-functional failure investigations, establish and verify corrective and preventive actions, and build tooling and infrastructure that accelerate debugging, test, and issue…
• Improve system reliability. Drive coordination across Supply Chain, Reliability, Manufacturing, Quality, and Fleet Support to implement the processes and design changes that measurably increase the reliability and…
• Build the standard. Establish the standards, review cadences, and metrics (e.g., reliability growth, escape rates, time-to-resolution) that make technical quality repeatable and scalable as the program grows.

Job requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical field.
• 10+ years of experience, including demonstrated success leading and growing teams of electrical engineers.
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing technical teams.
• Experience working cross-functionally across design, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and fleet/field support.
• Proven ability to plan and execute complex electronic and electrical designs in a high-consequence industry (defense, aerospace, automotive, or medical device).
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership development environment with rapidly evolving priorities.
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with structured problem-solving and failure analysis methods such as fault tree analysis, fishbone/Ishikawa diagrams, FMEA/FMECA, 8D, or similar.