Senior Engineering Manager

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Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain technical integrity and engineering excellence across all aspects of product development.
• In conjunction with other parts of the Company, establish, mature, scale, and enforce engineer-friendly development processes and guidelines.
• Lead and participate in rigorous architecture and design reviews, ensuring appropriate subject-matter expert (SME) engagement across digital, RF, power, firmware and mechanical disciplines.
• Apply strong working knowledge of adjacent disciplines—RF electronics, power electronics, thermal/mechanical engineering, firmware/software—to ensure board- and system-level success.
• Contribute directly to board-level digital and mixed-signal designs as needed, particularly in high-risk or schedule-critical programs.
• Lead or support complex debug efforts.
• Drive disciplined handoff from engineering to manufacturing through close collaboration with manufacturing engineering, supply chain and production test engineering.
• Ensure designs meet quality, reliability and scalability requirements for aerospace and defence production environments.
• Lead digital architecture decisions aligned with product performance and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Partner with Supply Chain to ensure component availability, lifecycle risk mitigation and cost awareness.
• Drive design reuse, modular architectures and platform commonality across products to accelerate execution and reduce risk.

Team Leadership, Staffing & Performance Responsibilities

• Build, scale and lead a high-performing engineering team covering all aspects of product development.
• Advocate for realistic schedules while holding the team accountable to delivery commitments.
• Lead hiring activities, including writing job descriptions, conducting interviews and making hire/no-hire decisions.
• Establish clear development paths and growth opportunities for high-performing engineers.
• Address performance issues promptly and constructively.
• Actively close skill gaps through hands-on contribution, training initiatives or targeted hiring.
• Provide one-on-one coaching, mentoring and deep technical guidance.
• Serve as a key contributor to early-stage engineering execution planning, including collaboration with Business Development and Systems Engineering.
• Plan and manage budgets related to staffing, lab equipment, capital equipment and design/simulation software.
• Maintain strong working relationships across Engineering, Quality and Operations.

Job Requirements and Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years wide-ranging experience in electronic product development, including 1–3 years of leadership or engineering management experience preferred.
• Board design experience, preferably gained within an aerospace environment and using Altium design tools, including:
• High-speed digital and mixed-signal board design, from component selection to schematic capture.
• Reliability (MTTF) analysis for challenging temperature, vibration, EMI and radiation environments.
• Expertise in dense, high-layer-count PCB layout including design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT) and signal integrity analysis.
• Digital design experience, including FPGA design flows using VHDL with AMD devices (Xilinx/Vivado).
• Software-defined radio experience preferred.
• Knowledge or a deep appreciation of other aspects of product design, including:
• Developing comprehensive product regression testing environments that stress product functionality to the limit.
• Embedded software development, including aspects such as Linux/Yocto, BSP, C++ and driver design.
• Power supply design, including local power conditioning, power sequencing and power surge handling.
• Basic RF design principles such as signal integrity principles, impedance control and noise mitigation.
• Mechanical design including aspects related to thermal requirements.
• Proven ability to conduct rigorous technical reviews, mentor engineers and communicate effectively across disciplines.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems.
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills.
• Ability to balance architectural rigor with execution speed in a fast-paced development environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Experience using collaboration tools.