Hardware Engineering Manager

• We are seeking an Engineering Manager, Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware to lead and coordinate our high-speed digital electronics teams across multiple sites and product lines
• This leadership role is critical to ensuring design consistency and high-quality execution across a diverse portfolio of software-defined radios, space computing platforms, and phased array control systems
• This position is a highly technical leadership role responsible for delivering well-engineered digital and mixed-signal hardware – on schedule – across all product lines
• The role provides technical ownership for board- and system-level high-speed digital designs while leading functional team execution, staffing, and engineering process maturity in a fast-growing aerospace and defense startup environment
• In addition to people and process leadership, this role contributes hands-on technical expertise to critical designs, architecture reviews, and complex debug activities, ensuring products are scalable, manufacturable, testable, and robust at production volumes
• This front-line engineering management role is the perfect fit for excellent engineers who want to grow their impact
• If you are passionate about designing great hardware, have strong interpersonal skills, and are excited by the prospect of designing teams to make more hardware than you can on your own – this is the role for you
• Some engineering management experience is preferred but not required
• The successful candidate may be a senior or principal engineer motivated to take the next step in their career
• Maintain technical integrity and engineering excellence for high-speed digital and mixed-signal electronics development across the company
• Establish, mature, scale, and enforce engineer-friendly digital hardware development processes, including high-speed interface design guidelines, signal integrity simulation workflows, and schematic and layout standards for dense, high-layer-count PCBs
• 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, mechanical engineering, 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 involving high-speed interfaces, large FPGA and processor implementations, and related technical topics
• Ensure digital hardware designs are buildable and testable at scale using DFM and DFT best practices
• 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 defense production environments
• 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
• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing digital and mixed-signal hardware engineering team
• 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 mentorship, 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

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision
• HSA and FSA
• Company stock options
• Life, disability and retirement plans- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required
• Experience supporting design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and transition from development to production
• Strong understanding of signal integrity (SI) and timing
• Familiarity with FPGA toolchains (e.g. Xilinx Vivado) preferred
• Demonstrated deep expertise in high-speed digital and mixed-signal board design
• Minimum of 7 years of direct digital or mixed-signal hardware engineering experience, preferably in aerospace environments. 1–3 years of small-team technical leadership or engineering management experience preferred but not required
• Proven ability to conduct rigorous technical reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate effectively across disciplines
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
• Deep hands-on experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium
• Ability to balance architectural rigor with execution speed in a fast-paced development environment
• Proficiency with high-speed simulation and analysis tools such as Ansys SiWave or ADS SiPro
• Software-defined radio experience preferred