Advanced Emerging Tech Engineer – Principal

• Lead technical sprint execution for assigned innovation programs, ensuring clear direction, accountability, and timely delivery of sprint objectives.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to team members who report through dotted-line relationships, aligning priorities, deliverables, and technical direction.
• Drive execution of innovation projects across assigned technical focus areas.
• Coordinate closely with Innovation Core Functions to ensure the right technical capabilities and resources are aligned to each sprint or project effort.
• Translate innovation priorities into actionable technical workplans, sprint goals, and execution milestones.
• Support technical problem solving, design decisions, prototyping, testing, and validation activities needed to advance innovation programs.
• Maintain strong communication with project managers, engineering leaders, and stakeholders to support alignment, issue resolution, and execution speed.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and resource constraints early and accelerate or resolve them as needed to keep sprint execution on track.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Innovation Execution processes, tools, and team operating methods.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert in one or more assigned innovation domains.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Technology, or a related technical field.
• Several years of technical experience in product development, systems engineering, applied R&D, or innovation execution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and coordinate work across direct and dotted-line team structures.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Experience leading technical work streams, sprints, prototypes, or cross-functional project efforts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence across levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.
• Ability to work independently while contributing as part of a team-oriented, highly technical organization.

Demonstrates expertise in leading technical teams and executing innovation projects, with a strong focus on problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management. Proficient in translating innovation priorities into actionable plans and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Technical Leadership
• Innovation Execution
• Project Management
• Problem-Solving Skills
• Stakeholder Management

• Product Development
• Systems Engineering
• Applied R&D
• Technical Work streams
• Prototyping
• Testing
• Validation
• Sprint Execution
• Technical Direction
• Execution Milestones

• Analytical Skills
• Decision-Making Skills
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication
• Facilitation Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
• Bachelor's Degree in Science
• Bachelor's Degree in Technology

• Innovation Programs
• Technical Capabilities
• Continuous Improvement
• Cross-Functional Teams
• Dotted-Line Relationships