Vice President of Engineering

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⛰️ Colorado, New Mexico, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $245.5k - $393k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Vice President

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AeroVironment

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1971

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2023-09

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

AeroVironment is a pioneering technology company specializing in advanced uncrewed systems and autonomous solutions. With a rich history of over 50 years, AeroVironment designs and produces innovative technologies including drones, loitering munition systems, and uncrewed ground vehicles, primarily for defense and government applications. Their products are known for enhancing operational capabilities and redefining expectations in autonomous technology to meet evolving challenges on the battlefield and beyond.

📋 Description

• 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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