GN&C and Flight Software Integrated Release Manager

JOB ID: 2953

Locations: Littleton, Colorado

Program: CPS

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Craig Technologies is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID-19 variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.

To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Craig Technologies employees including new hires. All current and newly hired employees are required to follow onsite safety measures based upon the COVID-19 Community Level at the specific work location.

Description:

Craig Technologies is excited to lead the way in hypersonic missile development, and we want you to be a part of it! We are creating the first hypersonic boost/glide system for the US Army and Navy here on the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program, and our NGC-SW Integrated Product Team (IPT) is responsible for designing, developing, integrating, and verifying the algorithms and software that control it. Our group includes the Navigation, Guidance, and Control (NG&C or GN&C) subsystem, which flies the missile and glide body, and the embedded Flight Software (FSW) which hosts the NG&C algorithms and provides health, status, and sequencing for the entire system. Additionally, we develop and maintain the Flight Software testbeds (HILs or HWILs) which provide complete hardware integration testing with feedback and flight simulation to test the NG&C algorithms and flight software. Our integrated release managers, also called our mission thread leads, combine the mindset of a systems engineer and architect with the planning and coordination skills of a software release manager to bring together the architecture, requirements, designs, testing, and most importantly, the plan to develop and release the NG&C and software products. This is an exciting and crucial role within our team and we hope you will consider joining us.
We are looking for an energetic, curious, and systems-focused engineer to serve as an Integrated Release Manager for one of our upcoming flight tests. This will require developing a deep understanding of the mission and building meaningful relationships with our customers and industry partners, to create a continuous thread from the top-level flight objectives to the qualification and release of the NG&C subsystem and Flight Software. Additionally, this position will be responsible for guiding the team leaders within our IPT to transform the top-level roadmap into an executable plan, helping to close gaps, remove impediments, and coordinate external handoffs. Finally, this position will oversee the IPT as they implement the plan, responding to external requests and adapting to new discoveries, to ensure we meet our release milestones and ultimately support a flight test for one of the fastest missile systems in existence today. This is a technical leadership role and will not be responsible for the direct management of other team members.

Key responsibilities:

• Head up the creation and maintenance of a cohesive flight test roadmap for NG&C, Flight Software, and Testbeds from early design through post-flight analysis
• Set up detailed planning efforts across the IPT Project Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Owners to ensure the roadmap is translated into an achievable, resource-loaded schedule
• Connect multi-discipline communities to close gaps, analyze subsystem performance, and develop trades to incorporate new capabilities and opportunities
• Support execution team as they implement the plan by coordinating team efforts, tracking progress against the plan, and adjusting the plan to account for changes and new information

Additional responsibilities

• Regularly connect with IPT and senior program leadership to ensure the IPT roadmap aligns with program objectives and milestones
• Develop authentic, trust-based relationships with the larger systems team and customer technical community to ensure the NG&C and FSW designs support the overall solution
• Integrate with the systems verification and test teams to ensure successful subsystem testing and system verification readiness and support
• Support the technical leads and their teams in translating the IPT roadmap and objectives into lower-level features with clear success criteria
• Coordinate preparation and participation in program reviews, including design reviews, manufacturing reviews, test reviews, and post-test analysis

Basic Qualifications:

• Aerospace, embedded software, or similar technical experience, particularly at the subsystem or system level
• Desire and ability to grow trust-based relationships with customers and other stakeholders
• Demonstrated success planning and executing technical projects
• Proven interpersonal skills in a larger, multi-team team environment
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top-Secret clearance

Desired Skills:

• Solid technical background in Software, GN&C, and/or Embedded Systems development related to aerospace, robotics, automotive, or a similar field
• Demonstrated experience across the development lifecycle of complex systems, ideally related to space and missiles
• Experience coordinating and working with large, distributed teams, including external companies and government organizations
• Demonstrated understanding and application of Systems Engineering and a Systems Thinking mindset
• Experience with Agile (SAFe, Scrum, etc.) planning and execution and tools, such as Jira
• Ability to support the finance team in developing budgets and reporting cost, schedule, and technical metrics
• Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate complex technical and programmatic issues to team members, other technical teams, management, and customers
• Understanding of software baseline control and change management
• Experience with GN&C or similar flight science analysis
• Experience integrating and verifying embedded software with hardware
• Active DoD Secret or Top-Secret clearance

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Top Secret

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Craig Technologies facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

Work Schedules: Craig Technologies supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

Craig Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Join us at Craig Technologies, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

Business Unit: SPACE

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Software Engineering

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First