Vice President of Engineering
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Vice President of Engineering leading systems, productization, and manufacturing transition for AeroVironment’s autonomous defense technologies. Guiding engineering strategy across space, cyber, and directed energy programs.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the senior engineering authority across the segment portfolio
- Establish engineering standards, technical review processes, and development rigor for services and product organizations
- Ensure technical execution aligns with customer mission requirements, affordability targets, schedule commitments, and long-term product strategy
- Drive engineering best practices across systems engineering, software, hardware, integration, test, cybersecurity, reliability, and manufacturing readiness
- Lead independent technical assessments and support executive decisions on technical risk, investment priorities, and program execution
- Support the transition from bespoke engineering efforts to scalable, repeatable product solutions
- Promote modular architectures, common product frameworks, reuse strategies, and product commonality
- Partner with manufacturing and operations to improve producibility, reliability, and lifecycle affordability
- Drive engineering alignment with initiatives focused on speed, agility, commercialization, and rapid deployment
- Partner with the CTO to implement enterprise engineering strategies, processes, tools, governance, digital engineering, MBSE, and product development standards
- Support workforce planning, hiring strategies, succession planning, and capability development
- Shape future engineering structures, including Chief Engineer roles aligned to business units or product portfolios
- Foster accountability, innovation, technical excellence, collaboration, and mission focus
- Collaborate with business unit leaders, program management, manufacturing and supply chain, quality, finance, growth and capture, security, and contracts
- Support customer engagements, technical roadmap discussions, milestone reviews, and strategic captures
- Participate in executive operating rhythms, program reviews, investment reviews, and annual operating planning
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field required
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience within defense, aerospace, space, directed energy, RF systems, autonomous systems, or related national security sectors
- Demonstrated experience leading complex engineering organizations supporting both development and production environments
- Strong background in systems engineering, product development, and transition to manufacturing
- Experience operating within high-growth, fast-paced technology organizations
- Ability to balance technical rigor with speed and execution urgency
- Experience collaborating across enterprise engineering and business leadership organizations
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with executives, customers, and technical teams
- Top Secret/SCI Clearance or the ability to obtain a clearance
- Experience supporting defense acquisition programs, rapid prototyping efforts, and productized defense systems
- Familiarity with digital engineering, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and modern product development environments
- Experience scaling engineering organizations following acquisition or integration activities
- Background supporting products transitioning from R&D into operational deployment and production scale-up
- Must qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR/EAR or be approved for an export license
- Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401K with company matching
- 9/80 work schedule
- Paid holiday shutdown
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