Principal Engineer, cUAS Lead, Omen

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ABOUT THE JOB Small drones are hard to hit. Hitting them from a moving aircraft is harder. We need a Principal Engineer to own Omen’s airborne counter-UAS effector payload end to end, and to build the team around it. WHAT YOU'LL DO Own the counter-UAS effector payload end to end, from first prototype to qualified production hardware. Design the effector and firing system. Mounting structure, recoil and impulse management, feed and cycling, safe and arm interlocks. Own the steering hardware. Size the actuators, gearing, and drives, and design the isolation that protects the airframe from firing loads and the effector from rotor wash. Hold the pointing error budget and know where every part of it goes. Select and evaluate the sensors that range and locate the target.…

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