Sr. Project Engineer (SRM), Cyclops

Long Wall is hiring a Sr. Project Engineer to drive engineering execution and integration for the Cyclops Interceptor Program, with a focus on solid rocket motor development. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, schedules, technical decisions, and test readiness to keep development aligned with program priorities and technical baselines.

Responsibilities:

• Drive day‑to‑day internal execution of the Cyclops solid rocket motor development, ensuring engineering, integration, and test teams operate with clarity, pace, and alignment
• Maintain detailed internal schedules, resource plans, resource constrained critical paths, and cross‑functional work coordination
• Manage internal priorities and development flow, ensuring rapid progress while maintaining technical rigor defined by chief engineering and systems engineering
• Coordinate closely with the Program Manager to ensure internal execution supports external commitments, contractual milestones, and program reporting
• Facilitate technical decision flow by ensuring engineering discussions, trade studies, design changes, and integration plans remain documented, coordinated, and tracked
• Work directly with engineering discipline leads to identify and resolve roadblocks, accelerate hardware development, and maintain configuration stability during fast‑paced builds
• Support integration and test operations by ensuring engineering artifacts, procedures, and configurations are ready on time and aligned with verification plans
• Track and communicate internal risks, schedule drivers, and technical dependencies; support company‑wide risk management led by mission assurance
• Maintain alignment with systems engineering’s requirements, architecture, ICDs, and verification flows, ensuring internal schedules accurately reflect technical needs
• Support chief engineering by ensuring development activities remain aligned with the technical baseline, and escalate issues that affect reliability, safety, or mission readiness
• Help build scalable project management processes, templates, and execution models that will be used for future programs as the company grows

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical discipline, or equivalent experience in complex aerospace or defense development
• 8+ years of experience or support of engineering project management, integration leadership, or technical project execution
• Demonstrated experience coordinating engineering teams, managing schedules, and driving technical development cycles
• Strong experience with engineering workflow management, development planning, and coordinating cross‑functional technical work
• Proven ability to operate effectively in fast‑paced environments that combine private‑investment‑driven development with government test requirements
• Ability to interpret engineering artifacts, requirements, and configurations and convert them into actionable schedules and resource plans
• Excellent organizational and communication skills; capable of aligning engineering teams, surfacing risks early, and maintaining clarity across disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with technical authorities (chief engineering, systems engineering, mission assurance) to ensure disciplined technical execution
• US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position
• Experience with solid rocket motor development, integration, manufacturing, test and readiness
• Experience supporting missile defense, launch vehicle development, aerospace hardware integration, or other technically complex systems
• Familiarity with requirements flow‑down, verification planning, ICD management, and configuration control
• Prior experience working within a hybrid program environment (internal rapid development + government‑funded test campaigns)
• Working knowledge of common project management tools for scheduling, risk control, and engineering tracking
• Ability to translate ambiguous technical input into structured execution plans