--- title: 'Project Manager - Engineering at KH Aerospace' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/project-manager-engineering-kh-aerospace-reno-nevada-by56ac7qrbgn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Project Manager - Engineering at KH Aerospace - **Company:** KH Aerospace - **Location:** Reno Nevada, United States - **Posted:** 2026-07-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/khaerospace/jobs/4715288005 ## Job description Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) is an aerospace company specializing in long-endurance unmanned aerial platforms for a wide variety of industries. KHA supports a number of customers to carry out missions involving aerial reconnaissance, survey, communication relay and communications provisioning. Endurance, enabled by effective design, is key to these applications and KHA aircraft utilize cutting-edge aircraft design together with on-board intelligence to deliver value for these customers. We are currently seeking an experienced Engineering Project Manager to help drive execution across multiple engineering and cross-functional initiatives supporting the design, development, manufacturing, and deployment of our Ultra Long Endurance aircrafts. This individual will serve as a central coordination point across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Flight Operations, and other functional teams to ensure critical projects remain organized, priorities stay aligned, and key deliverables continue moving forward. Success in this role requires exceptional organizational skills, strong technical project management experience, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities evolve rapidly. The Engineering Project Manager will work closely with engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable project plans, coordinate cross-functional execution, proactively identify risks, and ensure projects are completed on schedule while maintaining visibility for leadership. Location: Reno, NV Office Responsibilities: - Lead the planning, execution, tracking, and successful delivery of multiple concurrent engineering projects and strategic initiatives. - Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, action item registers, and risk logs. - Coordinate activities across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Flight Operations, and other functional organizations. - Facilitate project meetings, capture decisions, document action items, and ensure timely follow-up with project stakeholders. - Monitor project status, identify schedule risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies, escalating issues when appropriate. - Own the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, including requirements, development, quality assurance (QA), documentation, release, customer delivery, and training readiness. - Manage the software delivery pipeline to ensure work is properly planned, tracked, tested, documented, released, and communicated before being considered complete. - Coordinate across software, engineering, manufacturing, quality, product, support, and customer-facing teams to ensure releases are delivered reliably and are ready for customer use. - Support engineering change implementation, product development activities, manufacturing readiness efforts, and continuous process improvement initiatives. - Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers and technical partners, as required to support project objectives. - Ensure project documentation is complete, accurate, and maintained throughout the project lifecycle. - Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize work, manage competing initiatives, and maintain visibility into organizational priorities. - Manage competing priorities across engineering teams and provide disciplined prioritization, ensuring new requests do not jeopardize existing commitments, release quality, engineering milestones, or customer obligations. - Drive accountability across project teams while fostering strong collaborative relationships throughout the organization. - Track project performance metrics and prepare regular status updates for engineering leadership and executive management. - Recommend and implement scalable project management processes, tools, and best practices that improve organizational execution without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. Requirements: - 5+ years of project management experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering projects involving multiple technical disciplines, including hardware, software, systems engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product development teams within aerospace, defense, aviation, UAS, robotics, or other highly technical product development environments. - Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent engineering projects with competing priorities, aggressive schedules, and cross-functional dependencies. - Strong understanding of project planning, scheduling, risk management, dependency management, resource coordination, and project execution methodologies. - Experience supporting engineering organizations throughout the complete product development lifecycle, from concept and design through development, integration, testing, manufacturing, and product release. - Proven ability to coordinate technical teams, facilitate cross-functional decision making, and drive accountability across organizations without direct management authority. - Excellent organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders. - Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively identify risks and develop practical solutions. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office and modern project management platforms such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or equivalent. - U.S. Citizenship required. Plus: - Strongly Preferred: Experience managing engineering projects within the aerospace, defense, aviation, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), drone, or other closely related industries developing complex electromechanical products. - Experience supporting organizations that develop complex hardware and software systems, including multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for mechanical, electrical, embedded software, firmware, and systems integration. - Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), engineering change management, configuration management, or product lifecycle management (PLM) processes. - Experience working in a high-growth startup or rapidly scaling technology company where priorities evolve quickly and organizational processes are still maturing. - Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent project management certification. - Experience implementing or improving project management processes, reporting frameworks, and organizational execution practices across engineering organizations. What Success Looks Like: - Engineering projects remain organized, visible, and on schedule. - Cross-functional communication improves across technical organizations. - Project risks and blockers are identified early and addressed proactively. - Leadership has clear visibility into project health, priorities, and upcoming milestones. - Action items are consistently tracked to completion. - Project management processes scale effectively as the organization continues to grow. Who We Are: KHA develops the world’s longest endurance fully electric Unmanned Aerial System ("UAS") in our size and weight category. We solve large-scale worldwide problems by providing persistent overhead services to help our soldiers remain safe in theater, provision rapid emergency communications for disaster relief efforts, enable search-and-rescue services to assist emergency response efforts, help anti-poaching to protect the world’s most endangered species and provide geospatial data to assist in slowing climate change. https://krausaerospace.com/ Compensation: Complete health care package Next Step: Please submit your resume, contact information and a short paragraph outlining why you believe this position is a good fit. We will reach out to you directly over the phone for next steps. Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. (“Company”) collects and uses Personal Information (as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”)) for human resources, employment, health and safety, and business-related purposes and to be in legal compliance. 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If you are an EU applicant, by sharing your personal information with Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. you hereby (a) acknowledge and consent to the international transfer of your personal information to the United States, despite the risks associated due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards, and (b) acknowledge that you have carefully read and understood this [notice](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A2YkRHyWbcV_nMnOQry2vXHvKLQvb-Ul/view?usp=sharing). ## EEO Statement Kraus Hamdani Aerospace is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of, race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, handicap, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. ## About KH Aerospace ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KH Aerospace) develops ultra-long-endurance, fully electric, AI-powered unmanned aerial systems for persistent airborne infrastructure, defense, and emergency response missions. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding $2.3M) - **Headquarters**: Emeryville, California, United States (with offices in Hayward, CA; Reno, NV; and Glasgow, UK) - **Founded**: 2016 - **Founders**: Stefan Kraus (CTO) and Fatema Hamdani (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Defense & Space / Aerospace Manufacturing - **Target Customers**: U.S. and allied military, national security agencies, emergency response organizations, critical infrastructure operators, and commercial geospatial/data customers (B2G, B2B) - **Mission Statement**: “To empower the people responsible for national security, critical infrastructure, and emergency response with the trusted autonomous systems and persistent connectivity they need to operate with confidence in any environment.” ## Products & Services - **K1000ULE**: Ultra-long-endurance, fully electric, AI-enabled unmanned aerial system (UAS). Proven in operational environments (world record flight of 75 hours, 53 minutes). On DIU’s Blue UAS Cleared & Select Lists. No runway required, no fuel logistics. - **ATNE++ (Aerial Tier Network Extension ++)**: Airborne communications mesh that provides self-healing, multi-waveform voice and data bridging across legacy and modern tactical data links. Supports connectivity across sea, land, air, and space. - **MD-ACT (Multi-Domain Autonomous Collaborative Teaming)**: AI-driven coordination of manned and unmanned platforms across domains, reducing operator cognitive load and optimizing mission outcomes. - **Autonomous Tasking / Persistent Monitoring**: Real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for defense, oil & gas pipeline monitoring, environmental data collection, and disaster response. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed - **Total Funding**: $2.3 million (Seed round of $1.5M in March 2016; government grant of ~$799k in January 2021) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Integrated into U.S. Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) ecosystem via Anduril’s Lattice platform. Listed on DIU Blue UAS Cleared & Select Lists. Partners include U.S. Customs, AEWE (Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment). - **Growth Signals**: 45 employees (as of mid-2025), with offices in the US, UK, Switzerland, and Australia. LinkedIn follower growth of +41.4% year-over-year. Proven operational deployments with government and commercial customers (over 6k hours flown globally). Team includes many military veterans and former defense/aerospace engineers. ## Competitive Advantages - **World’s longest endurance fully electric UAS** in its size/weight class (75+ hour flight record). - **No runway required** – vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capability. - **Solar-assisted, zero-emissions** – onboard AI enables silent gliding and energy harvesting. - **Self-healing mesh network** (ATNE++) ensures resilient comms in contested/denied environments. - **Blue UAS Cleared & Select status** accelerates military procurement. - **Operator cognitive offload** through AI-driven multi-domain teaming. ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling production and fielding of the K1000ULE for defense and national security missions. - Expand ATNE++ integration across joint and allied forces to become a standard airborne communications bridge. - Develop autonomous teaming capabilities (MD-ACT) for manned-unmanned collaboration. - Pursue commercial applications (pipeline monitoring, environmental sensing, disaster communications) while maintaining core defense focus. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture**: “Mission First. Team Built.” – many employees are engineers, technologists, and military veterans united by a purpose to save lives and support critical missions. - **Impactful work**: Build next-generation autonomous aerospace systems that are already deployed and battle-tested. - **Growth environment**: Privately held with a dedicated team (~45 people across multiple locations); opportunities to take ownership in engineering, manufacturing, and operations. - **Work locations**: Offices in Emeryville/Hayward, CA; Reno, NV; and Glasgow, UK. Engineering roles are on-site (manufacturing, technician, supply chain). Remote/hybrid policy not specified. - **Perks**: Working on cutting-edge AI, UAS, and communications tech with a small, agile team; direct exposure to leadership and real-world customer missions. ## Sources 1. [khaero.com](https://www.khaero.com/) 2. [khaero.com/about](https://www.khaero.com/about) 3. [LinkedIn - Kraus Hamdani Aerospace](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kraus-aerospace) 4. 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