Defense - Product Development & Research Engineer Job at Boeing (Wichita)

Director, Business Development

Intellisense Systems, Inc. is a privately held company with a proven track recor...

Location

United States , Torrance

Salary:

150000.00 - 215000.00 USD / Year

Intellisense Systems

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

A minimum of an Engineering bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or similar with 7+ years' experience in engineering
5+ years’ experience in Business Development with demonstrated results
Program management experience for avionics programs/systems
Practical understanding of technology transitioning, product/market development, and marketing/product planning for US military applications
Knowledge of conducting and directing competitive product analysis using market research techniques and a solid technical understanding of service/agency needs and requirements
Must have superior proposal development/writing and basic contracting/negotiation skills
Strong leadership skills, excellent communication (presentation, written, and verbal), and relationship building skills
Good problem-solving ability to work with a diverse work force
U.S. Citizenship is required
Must be willing and able to obtain a Security Clearance or have active Secret Security Clearance

Job Responsibility

Identification and capture of new business including Small Business Innovation Research transition with focus on year over year revenue growth
Actively participate in the identification and process of potential business opportunities to align with Intellisense growth strategy
Support strategic, long-range planning, market analysis and forecast data for DoD sector
Lead capture and proposal team activities with a focus on customer requirements and budget, competitive intelligence and price-to-win analyses
Conduct customer engagements and customer call planning with the purpose of establishing critical trust with senior leaders of assigned military service(s) and Primes
Identification of strategic alliances, teammates and partners for key pursuit opportunities
Participate in relevant trade shows, industry days and seminars to stay abreast of customer strategies, goals and objectives
Lead capture and proposal writing activities with a focus on customer requirements, program management planning and budget, competitive intelligence and price-to-win analyses
Identify and pursue opportunities for Foreign Military Sales or DCS of existing products in compliance with current ITAR and US Export restrictions
Will be required to travel up to 50%

What we offer

4 Weeks PTO a year (including 40 hours of PTO your first day)
10 paid holidays
401(k) with 100% employer matching up to 4% of salary (no vesting period)
Multiple options for Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance plans
Health Savings Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts
Tuition Assistance (30% of Tuition with a minimum qualifying grade)
100% Paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
100% Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
100% Paid Workers Compensation Insurance

Fulltime

Director of Business Development, US Navy

Silvus is seeking a Director of Business Development, US Army, who will report t...

Location

United States

Salary:

180000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year

Silvus Technologies (International)

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of wireless communications, serving in Business Development and/or Program Management roles
Minimum 5 years of recent experience with opportunity capture specific to the U.S. DoD across multiple services (i.e. Air Force, Army, SOCOM, etc.)
Demonstrated track record of securing contracts valued from $1M-20M+ on average, with experience in the placement of product and engineering services that align with Silvus’ product roadmap
Direct experience with wireless communications
Experience using CRM to actively manage a portfolio consisting of multiple accounts and associated opportunities
Practical understanding of product development, technology transitioning, and marketing/product planning for US military applications
Knowledge of conducting and directing competitive product analysis using market research techniques and a solid technical understanding of service/agency needs and requirements
Security Clearance: Active U.S. Government SECRET clearance or the ability to obtain one within 12 months of hire
Must be a U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts

Job Responsibility

Identify strategic alliances, teammates, and partners for key pursuit opportunities. Continue those relationships through contract award and program execution
Capture new government and military business opportunities that complement and grow our existing diverse military product portfolio
Conduct customer engagement and customer call planning with the purpose of establishing critical trust with senior leaders in program offices or with prime contractors
Participate in relevant trade shows, industry days, and seminars to stay abreast of customer strategies, goals, and objectives
Serve as the primary face for the customer during program execution and work internally within the company to ensure timely and successful delivery to customer expectations and satisfaction
Perform other related duties of which the above are representative
Travel Requirements – required to facilitate strong customer engagement

Fulltime

Senior Director, Business Development

Intellisense Systems, Inc. is a privately held company with a proven track recor...

Location

United States , Torrance

Salary:

180000.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year

Intellisense Systems

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (Engineering or related technical field strongly preferred) with 7-10+ years’ experience in Business Development
Strong understanding of technology transitioning, product/market development, and marketing/product planning for US military applications
Knowledge of conducting and directing competitive product analysis using market research techniques and a solid technical understanding of service/agency needs and requirements
Must have superior proposal development/writing and basic contracting/negotiation skills
Strong leadership skills, excellent communication (presentation, written, and verbal), and relationship building skills
Good problem-solving ability to work with a diverse work force
U.S. Citizenship is required
Must be willing and able to obtain a Security Clearance or have active Secret Security Clearance

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with functional counterparts to help ensure winning solutions are brought forward to customers and to position the Company for strategic campaigns
Demonstrate a history of Identification and capture of new military and defense business opportunities, including relevant Small Business Innovation Research with focus on year over year revenue growth
Understand how to work with CRADA and certain government R&D funding to assist maturing the TRL
Support strategic long-range planning, market analyses, and forecast data for DoD market sectors
Prepare technology and/or product roadmaps to ensure our pursuits align with our strategies and customer needs
Understand Intellectual Property (IP) protection, sale, and license
Lead capture and proposal writing activities with a focus on customer requirements, program management planning and budget, competitive intelligence and price-to-win analyses
Once business case is approved, present a “go to market” strategy that outlines how our organization will win in the designated market segment
Conduct customer engagements and customer call planning with the purpose of establishing critical trust with senior leaders in Program Offices or with Prime contractors
Develop and maintain a long-range opportunity pipeline

What we offer

4 Weeks PTO a year (including 40 hours of PTO your first day)
10 paid holidays
401(k) with 100% employer matching up to 4% of salary (no vesting period)
Multiple options for Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance plans
Health Savings Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts
Tuition Assistance (30% of Tuition with a minimum qualifying grade)
100% Paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
100% Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
100% Paid Workers Compensation Insurance

Fulltime

AI Engineer

At Helsing we deliver AI-based capabilities and the enabling infrastructure that...

Location

United States , Washington, DC

Salary:

Not provided

Helsing

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Hold an MSc in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science or a related field with experience in conceptualizing, implementing, and thoroughly evaluating advanced AI-based systems
Have experience with the complete machine learning pipeline, from collecting and annotating data, to evaluating model architectures, and iteratively training and tuning models to meet performance requirements
Have excellent communication skills and the ability to report and present research findings clearly and efficiently both internally and externally
Possess solid software engineering skills, writing clean and well-structured code in Python and/or languages like Rust, Java, or modern C++, and experience deploying AI software to production including testing, QA, and monitoring
Have developed or implemented AI applications in defense and broadly understand defense specific use cases

Job Responsibility

Develop ML/AI that leverage and extend the latest state-of-the-art methods and architectures
Design experiments and conduct benchmarks to evaluate and improve their performance in real-world scenarios
Collaborate with people across several teams and backgrounds to integrate cutting edge ML/AI in our production systems

What we offer

Insurance coverage (medical and travel)
Flexible paid time off
Paid holidays

Fulltime

Fast Labs Campaign Strategy Director

The FAST Labs Campaign Director will lead the shift to mission-focused campaigns...

Location

United States , Arlington; Burlington; Merrimack; Reston; Austin; Durham

Salary:

196296.00 - 333704.00 USD / Year

Baesystems

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

>15 years of technical and management experience across Research and Development, Engineering Manufacturing and Development, Production, and fielding for the Defense and/or Intelligence markets
Ability to think strategically and formulate a strategic vision and strategies, as well as implement actions needed to achieve goals in a changing environment
Capability to lead execution and rollout for new strategic initiatives, including leading organizations through complex culture change
Business and technical leadership, management, and decision making in technology development efforts
Strong customer focus, marketing, influencing, and shaping with a demonstrated ability to build and manage relationships across a broad network of customers spanning the highly technical, programmatic, government bureaucratic, and operational users
Ability to communicate at all levels within the customer community and the corporate community
Business development mindset with in-depth experience in the development of growth strategies
Proven ability to share and transfer know-how across organizational boundaries
Competent in talent management and development, performance management, mentoring, coaching, and team communications
Ability to achieve results through others and develop leaders in an organization

Job Responsibility

Lead the shift to mission-focused campaigns in the FAST Labs Business Area
Lead the shaping and communication of mission campaigns
Partner with internal ES Mission Integration Cell and FL Mission Assessments (MA) teams to help define descriptions of current and future threats, as well as current and projected future Blue force design and strategy. Develop strategic Red/Blue architectures in terms understandable to technologists
Support MA on defining key analytical tasks to help identify technology needs. Guide design of experiments for sensitivity analysis to define technology needs
Develop and execute a plan to communicate strategic architecture and threat to technologists. Develop an education and training approach to put operational trends, needs, and limitations in terms relevant to technology development and fielding
Provide insights into the complexities of employing and sustaining new technologies in an operational setting. Educate program teams of higher-maturity capabilities on these realities and help them develop their own campaigns to lead to fieldable programs of record
Possess a deep understanding of the government acquisition system and communicate this to program teams. Leverage this insight to help program teams develop new business models to transition and mature their capabilities faster and more adaptively. Help teams find interim government customers to support development of these business models and other transition experiment, bridging the gap between S&T and a traditional PEO
Develop and foster an entrepreneurial mindset throughout the organization for developing and executing strategies to rapidly and consistently develop impactful technologies and products and getting those technologies and products across the valley of death
Develop the approach and skills needed for strategic operational architecting, the art of converting operational problems into a mesh of inter-connected technical capability solutions. Develop the training methods to teach this type of thinking to FL scientists and engineers
Develop a cadre of strategic operational architects, the key contacts within Product Lines who will execute mission campaigns for their programs. Train and develop them for campaign thinking and build them into an integrated team. Lead and encourage campaign collaboration across Tech Areas and Product Lines to facilitate integrated mission campaign development and execution. Train the trainers to enlist them in further propagation of this thinking within their PLs

What we offer

health, dental, and vision insurance
health savings accounts
a 401(k) savings plan
disability coverage
life and accident insurance
employee assistance program
legal plan
discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
paid time off
paid holidays

Fulltime

Technical Product Marketing Manager

Heidi is building an AI Care Partner that works alongside clinicians. The Techni...

Location

United Kingdom , London

Salary:

Not provided

Heidi

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong technical fluency - you don’t need to be a researcher, but you do need to: Read and understand technical docs, eval results, and research summaries
Ask sharp questions of engineers and researchers
Experience in product marketing, technical marketing, research communications, or a similar role in: AI / ML
Developer tools
Infrastructure, safety, or reliability-critical systems
Exceptional written communication — especially for complex, nuanced topics
High standards for accuracy, clarity, and intellectual honesty

Job Responsibility

Own Technical Narratives for Safety & Trust
Develop clear, accurate messaging around Heidi’s: Safety systems
Evaluation methodologies
Research findings and model behavior
Translate complex technical concepts into compelling, truthful narratives without oversimplifying or hype
Partner Deeply with Research & Engineering
Embed with safety, evals, and research teams to understand: How models are trained and evaluated
Failure modes, edge cases, and mitigations
Tradeoffs and limitations
Act as a thought partner to researchers on how work is framed and communicated

What we offer

Equity from day one
£500 personal development budget
Dedicated wellness days
Birthday off
Hybrid environment, with 3 days in the office

Fulltime

Engineering Support Lead Engineer

BAE Systems is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to join our Integrated Defen...

Location

United States , Rockville

Salary:

150370.00 - 255630.00 USD / Year

Baesystems

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Minimum education and years of relevant / related experience required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field preferred, or at least 12 years proven experience successfully leading system engineering activities across large-scale weapon systems
or a Master of Science in Engineering and minimum of 10 years of related experience
10+ years of experience leading DoD/DOE acquisition, engineering services development and execution, and programs sustainment
10+ years of experience supporting acquisition and/or RDTE with submarines or missile systems in a technical leadership role
Thorough understanding and implementation of the end-to-end System Engineering lifecycle
Experience conducting science and technology research, analysis, trade studies, system integration, verification and validation, and test of complex systems
Experience using risk and opportunity management processes throughout the design lifecycle
Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and influence multi-disciplinary teams in complex systems engineering across the product development lifecycle
Experience with technical presentations and customer-facing activities at the leadership level
Demonstrated success partnering with customers to understand critical challenges, shape customer requirements, develop innovative solutions, and manage execution of solutions through implementation

Job Responsibility

Lead a multi-disciplinary team of subject matter experts in developing and implementing a well-planned systems engineering approach
Provide engineering and scientific leadership in performing technical analysis, trade studies, research, development, and test and evaluation to lead system definition and realization activities, resolve issues, and make recommendations regarding enhanced capabilities
Provide sound engineering principles and disciplined guidance to ensure successful execution of technical plans and goals
Communicate effectively with internal and external management and senior-level customer representatives concerning operational decisions, technical risk identification and mitigation, definition and achievement of requirements, and overall end-to-end systems engineering process definition and oversight

What we offer

health, dental, and vision insurance
health savings accounts
a 401(k) savings plan
disability coverage
life and accident insurance
employee assistance program
legal plan
discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
paid time off
paid holidays

Fulltime

Head of Systems Engineering

Own the system-level vision that turns first-of-a-kind fusion hardware into a co...

Location

United States , Madison

Salary:

Not provided

Realta Fusion Inc.

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

BS in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred
15+ years systems engineering experience in complex hardware programs (aerospace, defense, energy, accelerators, research facilities)
5+ years leading systems engineering teams or serving as chief engineer on major programs
Demonstrated track record integrating multidisciplinary systems from requirements through commissioning
Deep expertise in systems engineering processes including requirements management, functional analysis, interface management, and V&V
Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and control systems to facilitate integration across disciplines
Proficiency with systems engineering tools (DOORS, Cameo, modeling and simulation)
Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approaches
Knowledge of systems safety analysis (FMEA, fault trees, hazard analysis)
Familiarity with technical reviews, configuration management, and engineering change processes

Job Responsibility

Define and maintain system architecture for fusion devices across experimental, pilot, and commercial product lines
Establish and manage technical requirements from physics performance through operational, safety, and regulatory constraints
Lead system decomposition and allocation of requirements to subsystems and components
Develop and maintain interface control documents across mechanical, electrical, plasma, and control systems
Drive design trades balancing performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and risk
Lead system integration activities ensuring subsystems work together to meet top-level requirements
Define verification and validation strategy including analysis, testing, inspection, and demonstration
Oversee commissioning and acceptance testing of fusion devices and major subsystems
Manage technical reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR) ensuring design maturity and readiness
Drive resolution of integration issues and interface conflicts across engineering disciplines

What we offer

Competitive compensation package, including equity stock options
Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k)
Flexible paid time off (PTO) to support work-life balance

Fulltime

Defense - Product Development & Research Engineer

Boeing

Location:
United States , Wichita

Category:
Manufacturing

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Requirements:

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Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

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