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About the Role

The Director of Engineering is the senior functional leader for QED's Systems, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Software, and Controls engineering disciplines, accountable for their performance, capability, and results. You will build and run the operating model that turns product strategy into predictable execution, from concept through release, sustainment, and end-of-life. This is an operating-model role as much as a technical one, requiring clear decision rights, disciplined governance, and accountability.

Responsibilities

Lead Systems, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Software, and Controls Engineering, with accountability for performance, capability, capacity, and results.
Set clear responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation paths within Engineering and with partner functions.
Coach and develop functional managers and senior technical leaders; maintain succession plans and build a strong leadership bench.
Align staffing, skills, and resources with portfolio priorities, project demands, and sustainment needs.
Partner with Engineering Project Management to deliver projects that meet technical, schedule, and cost requirements.
Define and continuously improve a scalable engineering operating model spanning development, release, sustainment, obsolescence, engineering change, and end-of-life.
Establish departmental governance, including operating cadence, portfolio and resource reviews, technical and risk reviews, metrics, and management reporting.
Ensure each discipline uses fit-for-purpose tools, standards, and configuration practices within an integrated tool chain, from requirements through change control.
Use engineering health metrics to identify constraints, improve predictability, and drive corrective action.
Own the engineering framework, rooted in the QED PDP, for converting customer and business needs into robust, manufacturable, and serviceable products.
Ensure disciplined systems engineering, technical risk management, design review, verification, and release readiness, with clear phase-gate criteria and accountable decision-makers.
Drive early cross-functional engagement with Product Management, Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, Applications, Sales, and Supply Chain.
Set ownership and priorities between new development and sustainment, including root-cause analysis, corrective action, cost reduction, and obsolescence planning.
Feed field, production, and quality data back into roadmaps and design standards.
Resolve cross-discipline technical and resource conflicts and elevate material risks.
Translate company strategy and product roadmaps into engineering priorities, capability plans, and technology investments.
Report on execution, capacity, project health, technical risk, and staffing to executive leadership, alongside Project Management.
Advise on technical tradeoffs, make/buy/partner decisions, platform strategy, and development risk.
Create and manage the annual Engineering budget, including material, capex, labor, and capacity.
Support technical due diligence and integration planning for corporate M&A as needed.
Represent QED in key customer, supplier, partner, and academic engagements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field (advanced technical or business degree preferred).
12+ years of progressive engineering experience, including senior leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Experience with complex systems, precision equipment, or advanced manufacturing.
Experience leading product development from concept and requirements through release, production, sustainment, and end-of-life.
Proven success building engineering processes, governance, and management systems that improve execution and product outcomes.
Strong command of systems engineering, requirements management, design controls, technical risk management, verification, and validation.
Working knowledge of the methods and tools used in systems, mechanical, manufacturing, software, and controls engineering.
Sound portfolio, capacity, and budget judgment amid competing development and sustainment priorities.
Excellent executive communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills.
Data-driven, continuous-improvement mindset.
Qualified to work in a CMMC environment with access to CUI and ITAR data (i.e., a U.S. Person as defined by ITAR law).
Experience with precision optics, metrology, or similarly demanding engineered products.
Experience in the defense industry with defense primes and subcontractors.
Experience with PLM, requirements management, and software and controls development tool chains.
Experience with technical due diligence or post-acquisition engineering integration.
Applicants must reside within commuting distance of the Rochester location.

Skills

Systems engineering
Requirements management
Design controls
Technical risk management
Verification
Validation
Portfolio management
Capacity management
Budget management
Executive communication
Conflict resolution
Decision-making
Data-driven analysis
Continuous improvement
Precision optics
Metrology
Defense industry
PLM
Software development tool chains
Controls development tool chains
Technical due diligence
Post-acquisition engineering integration

Location

Rochester, New York

Work Type

On-site
Full-time

Experience Level

12+ years of progressive engineering experience
Senior leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field
Advanced technical or business degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

$170,000–$206,000
Target opportunity of 20% of base salary for annual performance-based incentive program

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package
401(k) program

About the Company

At QED Technologies, we are building what's next.
For 30 years, QED has helped customers solve complex challenges in precision optics through advanced fabrication and metrology technologies.
Our proprietary solutions support applications across aerospace and defense, semiconductor manufacturing, space and astronomy, research, fusion, and other advanced industries.
Our work depends on talented people who bring curiosity, precision, collaboration, and ownership to difficult problems.
We are building a high-performing culture where people are trusted to make an impact, teams work across boundaries, and continuous improvement is part of how we operate.

Equal Opportunity

QED Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.
We value a diverse and inclusive workplace and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
QED Technologies provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, in accordance with applicable law.
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, consistent with applicable law.
This position requires access to information, technology, software, or products controlled under U.S. export-control laws and regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Administration Regulations.
Applicants must qualify as a U.S. Person as defined by ITAR and be eligible to work in a CMMC environment with access to Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).