Senior Delivery Engineer

About the company Our client is a software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead customer-facing engineering delivery for aerospace engagements, owning outcomes from scoping through deployment while coordinating a cross-functional team and acting as both project and product lead. What you'll do

• Carry full responsibility for results on aerospace engagements, both new and ongoing, from problem framing and model building through rollout and integration into client engineering practice.
• Write statements of work, set out the engagement plan for customers, and remain accountable for delivery against it.
• Lead a matrixed team of applications engineers, machine learning scientists, data and platform engineers and product engineers, setting technical direction, sequencing work and clearing blockers.
• Run sprints, milestones and risk management while also helping choose use cases and shaping what to build next.
• Stay hands-on with troubleshooting model behavior, reworking data flows and building out integration prototypes.
• Work side by side with clients to co-develop applications, passing on expertise and earning confidence through transparent joint work.
• Partner with sales and account teams on new engagements, handoffs to delivery and account growth.
• Feed market and customer insight back to product and research teams to inform the roadmap for aerospace use cases.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Solid technical foundation in physics simulation applied to flight vehicles, covering fluid flow, structures, airflow behavior, fluid-structure interaction or design optimization across disciplines.
• Track record of directing technical work or running a customer account from initial scoping to completion, or presenting proposals to senior internal decision makers.
• Experience in aerospace manufacturing, eVTOL, space, propulsion, defense or engineering software.
• Clear communication of project status, progress and challenges to stakeholders.
• Eligibility as a U.S. person, meaning a citizen, lawful permanent resident or protected individual, is mandatory because of defense and export rules. Bonus points
• Experience with physics-based AI or AI surrogate modeling.
• A technical degree at master's or doctoral level in an aerospace or mechanical discipline is a plus.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 165,000 to 295,000 per year
• Equity
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible time off
• Retirement plan Location and work model
• San Mateo, CA, United States
• On-site preferred, with remote candidates considered
• Up to 5 days a week in office preferred
• 10 to 25% travel to customer sites
• Full-time