Lead Systems Engineer, Launch Program

Role Purpose

The Lead Systems Engineer owns cross‑functional planning and execution for the launch program at a systems engineering level, ensuring work meets the company’s technical requirements, risk posture, and overall business objectives. The role focuses on coordination of system requirements, unblocking teams, and coordinating dependencies to keep the cross‑functional engineering program on track from early design through launch operations.

Core Responsibilities

• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams to achieve design, build, test, and launch readiness milestones, with clear entry / exit criteria for each phase / sprint.
• Create and manage system‐ and program‑level requirements into clear work plans, task breakdowns, and deliverables schedule in collaboration with engineering leads.
• Maintain requirements, configuration and interface control documents and track compliance and verification status against the launch program’s technical baseline.
• Run phase‑gate reviews and design reviews, ensuring decisions, changes and action items are documented, communicated and followed through to completion.
• Support and enforce change control processes for requirements, designs, and major scope changes, assessing impacts on schedule, budget and risks.
• Track issues and non‑conformances to closure, coordinating root‑cause analysis and corrective actions where needed.
• Maintain a living risk register covering technical, schedule, cost, supplier and regulatory risks, driving regular risk reviews with engineering and leadership.
• Promote a culture of transparency, accountability and data‑driven decision‑making across the program.
• Facilitate constructive resolution of conflicts between teams when priorities, resources or technical approaches are misaligned.
• Model disciplined execution while remaining flexible to iterate plans as new test data, customer inputs or regulatory constraints emerge.

Qualifications

Salary Range

CAD 120-130k

Eligible for company stock options subject to terms. Illustrative total annualized compensation including value of options after 4 year vesting is $250-270k.

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