Senior DFX Engineer

Job description

Worker Type Regular: Job Description: Summary: AV builds proven systems and the future of defense for the warfighter. The Senior DFX Engineer is the enterprise steward of lifecycle-driven design quality, ensuring AV products are buildable, testable, observable, reliable, affordable, and sustainable across their full operational life. Rather than owning individual programs, this role defines and governs how AV designs for reality across manufacturing, test, supply chain, cost, and obsolescence --so downstream crises are prevented, not fought. Primary Responsibilities: The Senior DFX Engineer will: - Define and maintain the enterprise Design-for-X (DFX) framework governing manufacturability, testability & observability, reliability, supply-chain resilience, cost, and sustainment. - Establish DFX standards, criteria, and maturity gates embedded into early architecture, SRR/PDR/CDR, configuration & release, and platform definition. - Advise engineering and program leadership by participating in key design and architecture reviews, providing independent lifecycle risk assessments, and recommending balanced design trade-offs. - Drive design reuse, modularity, and platform commonality thr...