Deputy Chief Engineer

YOUR MISSION

RESPONSIBILITIES 

True Anomaly is seeking a highly accomplished Deputy Chief Engineer to lead the technical execution of a next-generation missile defense program. This is a generational opportunity to architect a solution to some of the most challenging mission sets in missile defense, not to mention aerospace engineering as a whole. The Deputy Chief is responsible for ensuring the technical integrity, accuracy, and repeatability of analysis across the program. 

Responsibilities include: 

Program Technical Leadership 

• Support the Chief Engineer in maintaining overall technical integrity of the missile defense program

• Serve as acting Chief Engineer when delegated, leading technical reviews and milestone readiness assessments

• Translate top-level technical direction and risk posture into actionable guidance for subsystem teams

• Lead integrated design reviews, risk boards, and engineering change control processes

Systems Integration and Verification 

• Ensure interfaces between major subsystems (host vehicle, interceptor, kill vehicle, ground systems) are technically sound and compatible

• Drive technical integration across disciplines, avionics, structures, thermal, propulsion, and GNC, to maintain system coherence 

• Oversee verification planning, ensuring requirements are traceable, testable, and verified across the full lifecycle

• Ensure analytical and test rigor is scaled appropriately to design maturity and risk tolerance

Engineering Discipline Coordination 

• Mentor discipline leads, ensuring consistency in standards, modeling assumptions, and data management

• Promote cross-functional problem solving, ensuring issues are rapidly elevated and technically resolved

• Enforce engineering rigor, documentation, and configuration control across the design and analysis functions

• Oversee the engineering review process (ERB, CCB) and ensure technical disposition of non-conformances

Strategic and Programmatic Alignment 

• Support the Chief Engineer and Program Manager in balancing technical, schedule, and cost trade-offs

• Coordinate with Systems Engineering and SEIT to ensure cohesive technical baseline and verification closure

• Contribute to technology maturation and risk reduction planning for future phases of the SBI program

• Represent engineering during customer technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and audits

QUALIFICATIONS 

Required Qualifications & Experience 

• 8+ years of experience in aerospace systems engineering, design, and technical leadership

• Proven record of leading multidisciplinary teams through full lifecycle development (concept through fielding)

• Deep understanding of configuration management, requirements traceability, and verification processes

• Strong background in one or more core domains (systems, structures, propulsion, GNC, avionics)

• Excellent communication, decision-making, and leadership skills
• U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD Secret

Desired Qualifications & Experience 

• Prior experience as Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer, or IPT Lead on a missile defense, launch, or space vehicle program

• Experience interfacing with government technical authorities and independent review boards

• Demonstrated success in scaling technical processes for rapid prototyping through operational deployment
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