Dir. of Energy Storage and Power System IPT
$235,000–$294,000 year
On-siteMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead the vertical development, design, integration, certification, and delivery of safety-critical aircraft battery packs, battery management systems, power distribution, and charging systems. Provide cross-functional leadership for the Integrated Product Team, managing resources, monitoring adherence to schedule and budget, and implementing corrective actions for technical risks. Coordinate engineering reviews, validation activities, and formal verification processes while driving program decisions aligned with SAE ARP 4754A, DO-178C, and DO-254 compliance. Manage multidisciplinary program reviews with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful product delivery. This onsite role requires Mountain View office presence and 15+ years of aerospace or battery engineering leadership experience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or other relevant STEM field
- 15+ years of experience in Aerospace or Battery engineering development and leadership with responsibility for scheduling and team/personnel management
- 5+ years of experience in leading a multi-functional, technically-oriented, Integrated Product Team
- 5+ years of experience in high-integrity battery system vertical development
- Detailed knowledge of high and low voltage electrical power distribution topologies
- Strong engineering analytical and technical skills with demonstrated experience delivering integrated technical solutions
- Strong communicator and excellent soft skills to work across the whole organization
- Experience performing cost and schedule management
- Experience with risk, issues, and/or opportunity management
- Strong decision-making abilities
- Effective at managing a wide range of tasks and rapidly changing priorities
- Knowledge of systems engineering and systems safety analyses and processes, including SAE ARP 4754A, Advisory Circular 23.1309-1E, SAE ARP 4761 as well as Part 25/29 certification requirements
- Onsite opportunity
- Work from our Mountain View office
Desired Qualifications
- Master's or PhD in engineering or other relevant STEM fields
- 5+ years of experience working with Aerospace technologies, products and services
- 2+ years lithium ion cell characterization and testing experience
- Demonstrated experience technical teams from the R&D stage to product delivery and in-service support, preferably with civil-certified aircraft
- Experience with performance and destructive testing of electric vehicle battery systems, preferably within aircraft
- Experience with the design of battery management system state estimation and fault detection algorithms
- Developed complex systems using System Engineering processes including architecture development, systems integration, requirements development, validation, verification, process control etc
- Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), including use case development, activity diagrams, logical architecture, etc
- Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
- Experience with DO-178C and DO-254 compliance for safety-critical Battery Management System (BMS) software and hardware
- Proven track record of navigating aviation certification pathways for safety-critical systems, specifically compliance with DO-311A
- Familiar with CAD software preferably NX, but also, Solidworks, CATIA, etc
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