Principle MLE, Chief Architect - Maritime Domain Awareness Platform
Company: SAAB
Location: San Diego
Posted on: October 16, 2024
Job Description:
Principle MLE, Chief Architect - Maritime Domain Awareness
Platform San Diego, California, United States of America As the
Chief Architect and Product Owner of the Maritime Domain Awareness
(MDA) platform, you will be the principal engineer and technical
leader of a cross-functional team to deliver value to Saab, Inc.'s
dual-use MDA solutions. This role will focus primarily on building
a cutting-edge, end-to-end maritime domain awareness platform
aligned with both national security and commercial MDA objectives.
The fully connected MDA platform will leverage information from
multi-domain sensors from seabed to space to create domain insights
and awareness for enabling actionable intelligence and continuous
closed loop learning. As part of this effort, you will build and
lead a world-class team of technical and tactical experts through
targeted hiring of ML/software engineers and data scientists. You
will have both high-level and direct hands-on influence on Saab
Inc.'s MDA business/product strategy, ensuring that our
capabilities are being conveyed as both cutting-edge yet
realizable. Translating customer needs into development priorities
is important: this means supporting the Customer Success, Business
Development, and Sales teams closely, working hand-in-hand with
Operations and Engineering to deliver results.The role is an
on-site (hybrid) role working with real hardware and systems at an
office on the water in San Diego, CA. Travel is required to support
customer engagements and demonstrations & deployments at
approximately 10%.Role Responsibilities:
- Product strategy and IC. Product development: develop and
articulate a clear product strategy for Saab's Digital Ocean
product line, including build vs buy decisions. Design and build
Saab, Inc.'s full stack maritime domain awareness capability with a
secure, end-to-end, enterprise scale data analytics platform that
can ingest, store, transform and analyze streaming and batch data
from multi-domain sensors from seabed to space. A first functional
prototype is expected in no more than 6 months from hire.
- Team Leadership: Grow team, lead, supervise, and inspire a high
performing team of ML/software engineers and data scientists,
fostering a culture of collaboration driven by a "research to
product" mindset. Have the pulse of the team, provide mentorship
and guidance to team and maintain team synchronicity.
- Cross functional collaboration: Collaborate with cross
functional teams to ensure successful development, launch and CI/CD
of the product line/s. Work closely with stakeholders to
incorporate feedback and customer needs into product strategy and
roadmap decisions. Work with partners across industry, academia,
and government to deliver, grow and integrate novel Digital Ocean
capabilities.
- Product Roadmap and Lifecycle Management: Develop and grow a
detailed roadmap, detailing key features, updates and release
cycles. Ensure projects milestones and end-user requirements are
met. Anticipate and provide early guidance on project bottlenecks
and provide resolutions. Identify up-sell, cross-sell, and resell
opportunities, especially as new capabilities roll out.
- Project tracking and reporting: Develop plans and execute with
the team by monitoring progress, budget and resources and providing
ongoing visibility on product status against key milestones,
decisions, dependencies, issues and risks etc. to all
stakeholders.
- Market Analysis and Competitive Intelligence: Conduct
competitive analysis and support technical communications
strategies with Saab's marketing team. Stay informed and maintain
alignment with industry trends, market dynamics and competitive
landscape. Perform project planning including staffing, cost
accounting and risk management for proposal development.
- Stakeholder engagement: Be aware of evolving customer needs,
market pressures and emergent technologies and continuously refresh
product to maintain alignment and best in class status. Drive
initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction and retention through
innovative market differentiating product updates. Build scalable
processes around customer success, for example, the means to
provide better customer service, receive feedback, and look for
opportunities to accelerate execution. Socialize key milestones
with industry, academia, and government through conference
presentations, technical paper publications, and media
relations.Compensation Range: $194,300-$257,500The compensation
range provided is a general guideline. When extending an offer,
Saab, Inc. considers factors including (but not limited to) the
role and associated responsibilities, location, and market and
business considerations, as well as the candidate's work
experience, key skills, and education/training.Skills and
Experience:Required Skills/Experience:
- B.S. in Computer Science, data science, engineering or related
analytical discipline with at least 10 years work experience or MS
in Computer Science, data science, engineering or related
analytical discipline with at least 7 years work experience. Work
experience must be related to full-stack platform engineering.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in building enterprise scale,
end-to-end data analytics platforms with ownership of end-to-end
program success and customer/user expectations.
- Demonstrated experience (strong familiarity) with layers 1-7 of
the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model or similar frameworks
for IoT systems.
- Demonstrated experience developing and working/managing cloud
native (AWS, GCP, Azure etc) solutions.
- Comfortable developing and working in both server and
serverless environments.
- Demonstrated experience in databases (structured, unstructured,
distributed) and DBMS's and specifically, strong experience with
spatiotemporal databases and GIS data will be highly valued.
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend RDMS database tools
such as MySQL, PostgresSQL etc.
- Demonstrated understanding of data modeling and data
structures.
- Strong proficiency in one or more back-end programming
languages such as Python, Java, C++, NodeJS, etc.
- Demonstrated experience with ETL tools, orchestration
solutions, and data warehouses in one or more of Redshift,
Snowflake, Databricks etc.
- Demonstrated knowledge of data pipeline tool chains and
processes such as Dev-Sec-Ops, ML-Ops, CI/CD, Data observability
and setting up monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Experience building visualization platforms for C2 use cases,
including user experience (Ux) engineering and human factors
engineering design considerations.
- Proficiency in Web Hosting and Version Control platforms.
- Experience with and/or understanding of one or more Data
Analytics/visualization frameworks and associated programming
languages used in building enterprise scale platforms.
- Proficiency with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an automation
first mindset.
- Experience with mission analysis, customization, and
development of product, managing project risk, deployment of
product, user training program management, customer support, and
product sustainment and maintenance.
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to build effective
working relationships is a must, especially across government and
industry.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a proven
ability to communicate well with peers and different levels of
management and the customer.
- Proven leader who motivates, inspires, and teaches others.
Strong work ethic and self-motivate and pro-active in seeking out
the best solution/s.
- Must exhibit leadership for executing practical application of
engineering processes on a development program and maintaining
engineering rigor while balancing cost, technical, and
schedule.
- Strong technical leadership with a research-to-product mindset,
including experience leading teams of senior researchers and
engineers.
- Ability to operate as an engineering point of contact for
senior leadership and customers.
- Must hold or be able to obtain U.S. DoD SECRET security
clearance and be a U.S. Citizen.Desired Skills/Experience:
- PhD in Computer Science, data science, engineering or related
analytical discipline with at least 5 years work experience.
- Experience as a chief architect and project/program manager for
greenfield projects from concept to delivery. Experience with
end-to-end data analytics platforms is highly desirable including
software/hardware/cloud-integration, prototype demonstrations, and
product deployments.
- Experience with full-stack development including state of the
art front-end visualization and dynamic UI.
- Experience with implementing infrastructure as code and GitOps
solutions.
- Understanding of the MDA domain and its product lines for
commercial and/or defense applications is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with new DB architectures such as Graph DB's, Data
Mesh, Data Fabric etc.
- Familiarity with ML/DL libraries including, PyTorch,
Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Transformers etc.
- Familiarity/experience in aggregation, processing, and
spatio-temporal analysis of geospatial data from various sources,
including but not limited to, AIS, EO/IR, SAR, RADAR, Satellite
Imagery, Acoustic sensing etc.
- Proficiency in geospatial software such as ArcGIS, QGIS,
GDAL.
- Direct experience with maritime systems and naval operations
with US DoD contractors is desirable.
- Experience writing winning proposals against Government RFP's
including DoD, NSF, ONR, AFRL etc.
- Interest in predictive analytics, data fusion, big data
processing, and/or edge processing and experience building
enterprise scale cloud-based analytics platforms with GIS data
analytics and visualization.
- Direct experience and comfort working with the U.S. Navy, U.S.
Coast Guard, NOAA, or other MDA customers, DoD contracting
experience preferred.
- Military, DoD, or experience as an MDA user in other
industries, especially with unmanned systems.
- Must be a U.S. citizen. Applicants selected may be subject to a
government security investigation and must meet eligibility
requirements for access to classified information.Drug-Free
Workplaces:Saab is a federal government contractor and adheres to
policies and programs necessary for sustaining drug-free
workplaces. As a condition of employment, candidates will be
required to pass a pre-employment drug screen.Saab provides an
excellent working environment offering professional growth
opportunities, competitive wages, work-life balance,
business-casual atmosphere and comprehensive benefits:
- Medical, vision and dental insurance for employees and
dependents
- Paid time off including: minimum of 3 weeks vacation, 5
floating holidays, 8 designated holidays, parental leave, personal
illness, bereavement, jury duty, long-term and short-term
disability
- 401(k) with immediate vesting on employer match
- Tuition assistance
- Student loan assistance
- Wellness account, Care.com subscription and employee assistance
programs
- Employee stock purchase program with employer matchAbout
Us:Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring
mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe.
Empowered by its 19,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the
boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and
more equitable world. In the U.S., Saab delivers advanced
technology and systems, supporting the U.S. Armed Forces and the
Federal Aviation Administration, as well as international and
commercial partners. Headquartered in Syracuse, New York, the
company has business units and local employees in eight U.S.
locations.Saab is a company where we see diversity as an asset and
offer unlimited opportunities for advancing in your career. We are
also a company that respects each person's needs and encourage
employees to lead a balanced, rewarding life beyond work. Saab
values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action
employer. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and
will be considered for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual
orientation, gender identity, age, veteran, disability status, or
any other federal, state, or locally protected category.Regardless
of whether you value cutting edge technology, creativity or an
innovative environment, everyone at Saab contributes to keeping
people and society safe.
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