Senior Project Engineer, NPI

About the Role

• Lead weekly engineering progress tracking across design, integration, and production activities. • Maintain visibility on system build status, test planning, and verification progress, ensuring alignment with program schedules. • Develop and manage engineering build plans, integration schedules, and V&V readiness checklists. • Identify and deconflict resource, technical, and scheduling issues across mechanical, electrical, and operations teams. • Coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure timely delivery and installation of hardware and subassemblies. • Escalate risks, blockers, and dependencies to leadership with clear recommended actions or mitigations. • Support execution of integration testing and V&V events, including configuration readiness and documentation closeout. • Maintain configuration control for each xCell unit, ensuring traceability of design updates and system changes. • Track incorporation of lessons learned, design improvements, and technical feedback from fielded systems into ongoing builds. • Provide structured weekly reports summarizing progress, risks, and upcoming engineering priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸progress tracking
• ▸build status
• ▸integration scheduling
• ▸v&v testing
• ▸configuration control
• ▸reporting

What You Bring

The position is based at Firestorm’s headquarters in San Diego, CA, with up to 30 % travel domestically and internationally to support supplier visits, deployments, and field operations. Employees must adhere to company policies, safety standards, and applicable labor regulations. The work environment encourages collaboration, respect, and trust. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or otherwise eligible to obtain the necessary ITAR or EAR authorizations. This requirement ensures compliance with U.S. government export control regulations. • U.S. citizen or permanent resident eligible for DoD security clearance. • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering or related field. • 8+ years of engineering or technical project experience, including build and integration planning. • Proven experience managing engineering progress, schedules, and resource coordination. • Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical systems integration, verification, and validation. • Experience coordinating builds of deployable or containerized systems. • Familiarity with additive manufacturing, environmental systems, or industrial power infrastructure. • Experience in defense or government programs with structured reviews and readiness events. • PMP certification, MBA, or Engineering Management credentials (optional).

Requirements

• ▸dod clearance
• ▸bachelor's
• ▸8+ yrs
• ▸pmp
• ▸mechanical
• ▸additive mfg

Benefits

Salary for this role ranges from $136,000 to $172,000 USD, depending on experience, education, certifications, specialized skills, geographic location, and business needs. The listed range is an estimate and may change with compensation structure or market conditions. • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. • 401(k) retirement savings plan. • Equity grants for new hires. • Unlimited PTO and generous holiday calendar, including November/December hiatus. • Generous parental leave. • Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, HSA. • Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance. • Fully covered basic Life/AD&D, short‑ and long‑term disability insurance; option to purchase additional life insurance. • 24/7 free mental health resources, therapy, plus legal and financial support services.

Work Environment

Onsite