Chief Engineer

Overview

In this role you drive the architecture, design, and delivery of advanced autonomy for unmanned aircraft, leading the Hivemind Solutions engineering team. You shape defense autonomy architectures across Group 2 to Group 5 UAS and ensure high-quality, certifiable software and systems. You collaborate with internal R&D and defense programs to deliver impactful autonomous capabilities. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role with mission-critical impact in defense tech.

Pay / Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity
• Temporary benefits package

Responsibilities

• Serve as Chief Engineer on autonomy projects for unmanned aircraft (Group 2 to Group 5)
• Lead a team to advance Hivemind Autonomy and shape defense autonomy architectures
• Define and assign technical objectives, make key engineering decisions, ensure deliverables are complete and of high quality
• Provide technical leadership and oversight across IRAD initiatives and defense contracts

Key requirements

• 10+ years in autonomy and/or UAS platforms (defense tech, self-driving tech, etc.)
• 7+ years delivering software into production/certifiable environments with high reliability
• Understand guidance, navigation and control (GNC)
• Understand robotics stack (controls, estimation, perception, planning)
• Experience with software development processes and deployment to production
• Experience defining technical scope, managing requirements, architectures and ICDs
• Proven problem solving with a scientific approach
• Customer-facing engineering leadership for defense and internal programs
• Contribute to government contract proposals
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent leadership, managing a team of 6–20 engineers

• communication
• leadership
• customer-facing collaboration
• autonomy/UAS platforms
• GNC (guidance, navigation, control)
• robotics stack (controls, estimation, perception, planning)

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