FTEN Project Engineer II

Who we are:

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.

About this role:

Fuse is seeking a Project Engineer to own day-to-day execution of the FTEN software roadmap. Working directly with the FTEN Product Manager, you will move initiatives from market requirements documents (MRDs) and product requirements documents (PRDs) through estimation, development, validation, launch, and post-launch measurement.

The Product Manager owns long-term strategy, product priorities, and what we build and why. You own delivery planning and follow-through across engineering, operations, and program teams. Engineering leads own technical solutions and estimates. We need a self-starter who learns quickly, works independently with minimal oversight, and drives issues to closure. You will drive delivery against business timelines and surface tradeoffs early when scope, capacity, or risk threatens a commitment.

What you'll do:

• Translate approved product and program requirements into executable work with engineering leads, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability through validation.
• Drive estimation, sequencing, and release planning with engineering leads. Maintain milestones, owners, and delivery forecasts against business timelines.
• Identify blockers, dependencies, assumptions, and risks early. Drive resolution, confirm ownership, and escalate decisions with options and recommendations.
• Serve as Scrum Lead for FTEN software teams, facilitating planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives to keep work moving.
• Lead technical reviews and coordinate testing, integration, troubleshooting, documentation, training, and launch readiness. Verify acceptance criteria and close outstanding actions.
• Build walking skeletons: thin, working end-to-end prototypes that demonstrate proposed workflows, test assumptions, and capture user feedback before full development.
• Lead demonstrations and technical discussions with internal and external customers. Resolve questions, synthesize feedback, and drive decisions and agreed next steps.
• Own product operations (ProdOps), maintaining accurate backlogs, delivery dashboards, decision records, and status reporting in Jira or equivalent tools.
• Turn initiative success criteria into measurement plans with baselines, evidence sources, and a reporting cadence. Report delivery health, adoption, and customer, mission, and business outcomes; recommend follow-up actions.
• Identify and advocate for new features and opportunities using customer feedback and delivery insights, with Product Manager guidance on strategic fit and priority.