Vice President of Engineering

Overview

Position:
Vice President of Engineering

Location:

Colorado Springs, CO USA

Type and

Schedule:

Full-Time, Salary/Exempt, On-Site

Annualized Salary Range: $174,720 - $219,232 (commensurate with experience).

Caliola is a woman-owned small business that is improving and protecting our Nation's way of life through secure collaboration and resilient communications. Our engineers, subject matter experts, and veterans are developing and delivering trusted solutions for mission-critical communications. We seek teammates who share our core values:

3 for C3 - Insight, Innovation, and Integrity for Command, Control, and Communications

We are headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, which is consistently ranked as one of the Nation's top ten places to live by US News & World Report. Caliola has been recognized by Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) as a key contributor to the growth of the Colorado Springs defense industry. We offer a flexible, collaborative, and open culture that is unusual in the defense industry.

We offer generous benefits, including subsidized health insurance and 401(k) matching, and a scalable, competitive pay structure.

As a part of our selection process, we ask all applicants to complete a short, 10-12-minute survey from Culture Index. This is a survey, not a test; no passing or failing. The purpose of this survey is to identify your unique strengths as they relate to our open positions. Please copy and paste the following link into a separate browser window to complete:

The Vice President of Engineering (VP of Engineering) will lead Caliola's engineering and program management teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality solutions, innovative products, and mission-critical systems. This executive will drive technical excellence, operational efficiency, and strategic alignment with DoD priorities, while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. The VP of Engineering will also support the evolution of DoD-funded solutions into marketable products and champion adoption of new tools, processes, and AI-driven knowledge management within the engineering organization.

• Leadership, Management, and Accountability (LMA) for a team comprising the leaders of Caliola's engineering and program management teams.
• Ensure that standards for quality are maintained across a diverse organization that both delivers engineering solutions and develops hardware and software products.
• Identify and resolve strategic staffing gaps in the capabilities of the engineering organization (e.g., identify need to hire staff in a key emerging discipline).
• Work with leaders of Caliola's engineering teams to identify when new tools (e.g., AI, languages, frameworks, etc.) should be integrated into production development.
• Work with Chief Scientist and business development team to ensure that solutions developed with DoD funding can evolve into marketable products or components.
• Work with Chief Scientist and business development team to architect solutions that integrate multiple capabilities drawn from Caliola's engineering portfolio.
• Support major proposal efforts that span multiple engineering disciplines.
• Champion the development and sustainment of AI-driven knowledge management tools for collaboration within the engineering organization and with other teams.
• Ensure that compliance with key certifications, including CMMC and AS9100, are maintained with Caliola's engineering organization.

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated knowledge of wireless and/or satellite communications.
• Leadership experience in an organization that works with or within the DoD.
• Understanding of DoD contracting and its impact on engineering execution.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage challenging situations with grace and professionalism.
• Ability to effectively lead a geographically distributed team from Caliola's headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO.
• Ability to travel periodically, with an emphasis on critical meetings at key customer sites across the United States…