Principal Configuration Management Specialist

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $160k - $266k / year

⏰ Full Time

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CHAOS Industries

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

Consulting • Logistics • Aerospace

CHAOS Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Through an engineering-led strategy, CHAOS provides mission-driven, world-class engineers a platform to develop solutions for critical real-world problems. Their agile engineering approach facilitates rapid prototyping, complemented by deep partnerships with defense sectors and industries.

📋 Description

• Establish, maintain, and audit functional, allocated, and product baselines across hardware and software configuration items • Manage the Engineering Change Proposal/Request process, including impact assessment coordination, Configuration Control Board support, and disposition tracking • Maintain configuration status accounting and traceability across requirements, design documentation, drawings, software builds, and test/qualification records • Ensure as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configurations remain synchronized and auditable • Apply configuration management practices according to applicable standards and contract-specific CM plans or Data Item Descriptions • Support compliance with customer and regulatory requirements for aircraft, missile, or sUAS programs • Prepare for and support internal audits, customer configuration audits, and government reviews • Set up and administer PLM/PDM and requirements management tools to control engineering data and change records • Coordinate with design engineering, systems engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management on change impacts, effectivity, and implementation • Manage configuration item identification, numbering schemes, and revision control across hardware, software, firmware, and technical documentation • Support release management for engineering drawings, specifications, interface control documents, and software version control • Serve as senior CM point of contact for one or more programs in program reviews, technical interchange meetings, and customer engagements • Support proposal efforts with CM plan development, staffing estimates, and lessons-learned input

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of configuration management experience within the defense/aerospace industry, with direct exposure to aircraft or UAS programs • Regular travel required (50%) • Strong working knowledge of CM standards (e.g., EIA-649, MIL-HDBK-61) and demonstrated experience running or supporting CCBs • Hands-on experience with PLM/PDM and/or requirements management tools • Experience managing configuration baselines across the full program lifecycle (development through production/sustainment) • Experience with FCA/PCA support and customer/government configuration audits • AS9100 quality system experience • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field (preferred) • Familiarity with UAS-specific configuration challenges (preferred) • Ability to obtain/maintain Secret/Top Secret/SCI clearance (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company • 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay) • FSA • HSA • Life insurance • Free daily lunch while you're working onsite • Fully-stocked kitchen • Unlimited PTO • Casual dress code • Competitive base salaries • Generous pre-IPO stock option grants • Relocation assistance • Annual bonuses (coming soon!)