The phrase "a lead engineer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a senior engineer who is responsible for overseeing a project or team within an engineering context.
Example: "As a lead engineer, she was responsible for guiding the team through the design and implementation phases of the project."
Alternatives: "a chief engineer" or "a principal engineer".
But as Andrew Whaley, VP of engineering at Arxan and formerly a lead engineer at Barclays Bank, explains in this interview, there are some serious questions about security and privacy that the new regulatory regime leaves unanswered.
Burak Gozluklu has nine years of experience in the aerospace industry, primarily as a lead engineer, in Turkish Aerospace Industries.
"Apparently it's impossible to have kids and continue to care about technology," said Lisa Dusseault, a lead engineer at Stubhub.
Last year, one of the architects of Google Glass, Babak Parviz, left for Amazon, and a lead engineer, Adrian Wong, defected to Oculus.
He got a job as a software engineer at a social-software company, Livefyre, run by a college dropout, where the chief technology officer at the time and a lead engineer were also dropouts.
He got a ________ as a software engineer at a social-software company, Livefyre, run by a college dropout, where the chief technology officer at the time and a lead engineer were ________ dropouts.
"What we are doing is the equivalent of giving a building an EKG," lead engineer Tara Hutchinson later told reporters.
It sounds like Apple isn't just looking for a new lead engineer — Apple could be looking for a new iDevice interface.
Newvem was founded by Zev Laderman, who has sold two IT companies, including Aduva to Sun Microsystems and Tradeum to VerticalNet; and Ilan Naslavsky; a former Lead Engineer at Sun.
Looker, a business intelligence startup founded by an early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps, has raised $16 Million in series A funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with First Round Capital, who invested in the company's $2 million seed round, also participating.
On Tuesday, Fisker announced that Tony Posawatz, a recently retired lead engineer at General Motors, would serve as its new chief executive.
