YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
The What: As the Team Lead Research & Technology at Blackwave, you will lead the R&T team to assess technical feasibility for our future products, guiding innovations from initial ideation to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). You will be the technical architect of our research initiatives, ensuring that experimental concepts translate into scalable, high-performance aerospace solutions.
The Why: At Blackwave, we’re on a mission to redefine what’s possible in lightweight structures for space and aerospace applications. Your role is critical in exploring "the crazy things" and pioneering the next generation of composite technologies, making our future products fail-safe, efficient, and technically superior.
YOUR MISSION
- Define the Future: Establish and own the R&T road map for domains such as composite structures, metal composite interfaces, and manufacturing processes, aligning them with our COPV and space hardware strategy.
- Master the Lifecycle: Own end-to-end technology projects from requirements definition and concept development through to risk assessment and validation, ensuring a smooth handover to industrialization and series production.
- Standardize Innovation: Turn “one-off R&T” into reusable standards by building and maintaining robust technology documentation, including design rules, process specifications, and work instructions.
- Fuel Strategic Growth: Support customer acquisition and project bids by contributing technical concepts, risk evaluations, and R&T content to proposals and ROM estimates.
- Lead and Mentor: Lead and coach multidisciplinary team members to grow their capabilities in step with the technology road map.
- Collaborate and Communicate: Internally, work and communicate seamlessly with teams across Blackwave ,from development to testing, while identifying and driving external collaborations with suppliers, institutes, and partners (e.g.funded projects).
