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Conducts environmental reliability testing on electronic flight hardware, including thermal, humidity, vibration, shock, HALT, and HASS testing. Develops test plans, fixtures, procedures, instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and reports. Operates and improves the environmental test lab, investigates failures, manages equipment and consumables, coordinates external laboratories, and advises stakeholders on test and design-for-reliability practices.

Design and develop mechanical and actuated systems for autonomous UAVs, owning concept-to-production CAD, kinematic and structural analysis, FEA, prototyping, testing, and cross-functional integration to meet performance, schedule, and reliability goals.

Lead design, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models for autonomous systems. Build scalable data pipelines, SFT workflows, and evaluation frameworks. Optimize models for embedded hardware (ONNX, TensorRT), collaborate cross-functionally, translate research to production, and mentor engineers.

Design, implement, verify, and debug FPGA-based communication modules for UAV avionics. Perform synthesis, timing closure, bitstream generation, and hardware bring-up. Integrate FPGAs with system architecture, optimize for latency/reliability, collaborate across hardware/firmware/software teams, participate in design reviews, and maintain documentation.

Design and develop primary and secondary structural components for next-generation UAVs through concept, CAD modeling, detailed design, verification testing, and production release. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, perform hand calculations and limited FEA, produce drawings and documentation, support manufacturing and flight test, and improve structural design practices.

Lead propulsion engineering for X-BAT's fighter-class afterburning engine and TVC systems. Manage engineers and technicians through concept, integration, testing, flight operations, and deployment. Coordinate with controls, airframe, flight test, manufacturing, suppliers, and leadership; drive trade studies, root-cause investigations, performance analysis, design reviews, and flight readiness. Emphasize technical leadership, hands-on execution, and schedule alignment to meet vehicle and mission requirements.

Design, analyze, and integrate thermal management systems for launch and recovery systems and electronics. Develop analytical and CFD models, prototype and test mechanisms, lead trade studies and risk assessments, drive test planning and data correlation, and collaborate across mechanical, electrical, avionics, manufacturing, and test teams toward production and field deployment.

Lead end-to-end propulsion test campaigns for a low-bypass turbofan Group 5 UAV: design test stands and instrumentation, execute ground tests, analyze data, drive anomaly investigations, and coordinate test-to-flight handoffs with cross-functional teams.

Perform finite element modeling and structural analyses (static, modal, fatigue, vibration) for UAV airframes; validate FEA with hand calculations and test data; develop test plans, define load cases and material properties, optimize structures for weight and strength, and document technical recommendations.

Manage indirect procurement by executing and tracking purchase orders, sourcing vendors, negotiating pricing and terms, maintaining ERP records (Deltek Costpoint), onboarding suppliers, reconciling invoices, forecasting needs, and implementing procurement best practices.