Senior Manager, Systems Engineering and Test (R6535)

Job Description:

What you'll do:

Build, lead, and grow the Australian Systems Engineering, Software Test, and Quality Process Engineering teams, including hiring, developing technical leads, and setting clear performance expectations.
Establish a common, right-sized engineering, test, and quality baseline across Hivemind Vision and Hivemind Solutions, while respecting the different needs of each team's products and customers.
Own the systems engineering lifecycle for Australian programs, including stakeholder needs, requirements, architecture, interface control documents (ICDs), traceability, and verification planning.
Define and lead the software test strategy across unit, integration, simulation, software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and flight-test environments.
Lead the maturation of the Australian Engineering Management System (EMS) and establish and maintain quality engineering practices, for example, configuration management, design assurance, and nonconformance and corrective action.
Champion and define criteria for formal technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and provide authoritative recommendations on design maturity, test readiness, risk, and release decisions.
Drive test automation, continuous integration, and engineering metrics that make verification evidence repeatable, measurable, and efficient to produce.
Partner with Shield AI's international engineering teams to align global processes and tooling with Australian program.
Contribute systems engineering, test, and quality content to proposals, statements of work, and program plans.
Report technical health, risks, and quality metrics to engineering and program leadership, and drive timely resolution of issues.

Required qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or higher in Systems, Electrical, Computer, Software, or Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
12+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, defence, or other safety- or mission-critical industries
5+ years leading engineering teams, including managing technical leads or managers
Hands-on experience across the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements management, architecture, ICDs, and verification and validation
Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) using SysML or equivalent methods and tools (e.g., Cameo Systems Modeler)
Proven experience defining and running software test programs across simulation, SIL, HIL, and live-vehicle or flight-test environments
Experience leading formal technical reviews and producing evidence for customer acceptance or airworthiness approval
Experience with requirements and test management tools (e.g., Jama, DOORS, Polarion, Jira) and automated testing
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risk to engineers, executives, and customers
Ability to obtain an Australian NV1 security clearance
Ability to comply with export-control (e.g., ITAR, EAR, and the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012), security, safety, and customer-site requirements

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with computer vision, perception, or imaging-sensor systems
Experience with unmanned systems, autonomy, or robotics programs
Experience establishing or operating a quality management system (e.g., AS9100 or ISO 9001), including configuration management and corrective action
Software assurance or DevSecOps experience in regulated or certifiable environments
Professional certification such as Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) with Engineers Australia, INCOSE CSEP/ESEP, ASQ CQE or CMQ/OE, or ISTQB