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