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Salary: USD 140,000 - 215,000 / annual
Agile Space Industries is a rapidly growing supplier of propulsion hardware and engineering services for the space industry. Headquartered in Durango, Colorado, with operations in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Seattle, Washington, the company has achieved over 40% year-over-year growth for the past three years.
The Staff Project Engineer role is a technical leadership position responsible for driving product development execution across multidisciplinary teams developing in-space propulsion systems, engines, and related components. This position works across Program Management, Systems Engineering, Product Leads, Technical Fellows, engineering, manufacturing, test, suppliers, and customers to align product development with technical objectives, cost, schedule, and program priorities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing product development plans, technical logic, work packages, priorities, and key milestones
- Coordinating technical execution across engineering, manufacturing, test, supply chain, quality, suppliers, and customers
- Partnering with Program Management to align technical objectives, resources, cost, and schedule
- Facilitating technical decision-making and driving cross-functional issues to resolution
- Coordinating technical risk and opportunity management
- Maintaining program technical baselines and managing technical changes
- Managing technical documentation, gated reviews, interim reviews, and customer deliverables
- Aligning program execution with Systems Engineering, Product Leads, and Technical Fellows
This is an open position at multiple levels from Staff through Senior Principal, assessed based on experience, technical leadership, complexity, and scope of responsibility. The role offers equity participation through a stock option plan (subject to executive review and approval).
Travel requirement: less than 25% of the time.
REQUIREMENTS:
- B.S. in Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- Relevant aerospace or hardware product development experience
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Strong technical judgment and ability to work through complex development issues
- Experience working with customers and cross-functional organizations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
LEVELING GUIDE:
Staff Project Engineer IV: 10+ years of relevant engineering product development experience; independently leads technical execution of a program or major development effort; makes program-level technical decisions with limited oversight; coordinates multidisciplinary teams and drives technical issues to closure.
Senior Staff Project Engineer V: 14+ years of relevant engineering product development experience; leads larger or more complex programs with significant multidisciplinary coordination and technical ambiguity; establishes technical execution approaches and development strategies; mentors and provides guidance to other Project Engineers and technical leads; drives resolution of complex technical and program execution challenges.
Principal Project Engineer VI: 20+ years of relevant engineering product development experience; leads highly complex programs or provides technical execution leadership across multiple programs; resolves high-impact technical and programmatic challenges with broad organizational impact; influences Project Engineering practices, execution methods, and technical decision-making across the organization; provides technical guidance to program, engineering, and company leadership.
