Division Chief Engineer - ELSYS - Warner Robins, GA - (Open Rank)

Overview

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Project/Unit Description

The Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS) is currently seeking a Division Chief Engineer in the Electronic Systems Lifecycle (ESL) Division, located in Warner Robins. ESL conducts research and engineering support spanning the full lifecycle of a broad range of electronic systems. Operating primarily in support of Robins Air Force Base (AFB) in Warner Robins, Georgia, ESL specializes in advancing Electronic Warfare (EW) and related technologies. The division's expertise covers a wide spectrum of activities, including system prototyping, technology insertion, systems and facility modernization, Test and Evaluation (T&E), cybersecurity engineering, and comprehensive system analysis. ESL plays a vital role in the development and enhancement of both emerging and fielded systems and platforms.

Job Purpose

The Division Chief Engineer ensures successful technical execution across the division’s portfolio. This is accomplished through a mixture of providing technical oversight, serving as a technical resource, and ensuring that the division’s researchers have the tools, technologies, and processes they need to work effectively and productively. The Division Chief Engineer works with division management, the division chief scientist, and branch management in accomplishing this goal. The Division Chief Engineer demonstrates deep and broad subject matter expertise in the division’s core technical areas. The Division Chief Engineer works closely with researchers to align their technical efforts with the division’s goals and with its investments in personnel, professional development, equipment, and facilities. The Division Chief Engineer maintains connectivity with the broader technical communities to ensure internal engineering practices align with best practices of the larger technical community.

Additional Responsibilities

• Guide division’s technical capability plans by working with division management on the division strategy; create plans to integrate modern technologies into division product lines
• Ensure division researchers have the tools, technologies, and processes needed to work effectively and productively
• Serve as a resource to the division for technical challenges arising during project execution
• Oversee division’s training and modernization investments to ensure they support current and anticipated project work
• Work with the Lab’s Chief Engineer and the other divisions’ Chief Engineers to ensure engineering consistency and quality across the lab
• Develop new research thrust areas; this requires deep knowledge of technology trends and Government spending trends and priorities to identify new research areas for development
• Lead white paper and proposal efforts; serve as point of contact throughout GTRI for collaboration with division
• Serve on technical working groups
• Maintain expertise/familiarization with enterprise engineering and collaboration tools for the division; advocate for use of tools to improve process and collaboration throughout the division
• Assist the Division Chief with technical subjects, evaluations, and task progress determinations
• Ensure that the division is compliant with quality management system requirements, including review technical deliverables, non-conformance reporting when needed, management of equipment calibration, and support for internal and external audits

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive experience in projects and/or program management; if the experience was gained at GTRI, then it could include being a task lead with budgetary authority
• Extensive experience in program development, including sponsor relations, writing white papers and leading proposal efforts
• Demonstrated proficiency in all technical areas relevant to the Division: electronic systems development, software development, system security engineering/cybersecurity, electronic systems testing, and systems engineering
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Experience with systems engineering processes and methodologies applicable to complex systems
• Experience authoring and presenting technical presentations to various audiences including senior DoD leadership
• Understanding of radar and/or electronic warfare systems
• Experience with test and evaluation
• Experience with Python, C/C++, C# or other languages
• Experience with System security engineering/cybersecurity

Travel Requirements

10% - 25% travel

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Physics, or other related fields of study
• 3 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Physics, or other related fields of study
• 0 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Physics, or other related fields of study

Please refer to ourResearch Faculty Technical Level Guidelinesfor minimum requirements at the higher levels.

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Benefits at GTRI

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

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