Hardware Engineering Team Lead

Hardware Engineering Team Lead

Location: Montreal, Full-Time, Hybrid

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Xiphos Systems Corporation, founded in 1996, is a vibrant and energetic company in the heart of Montreal’s Plateau area. For over 20 years, we have pushed the envelope of what is possible in NewSpace and secured the trust of various space agencies and space companies around the world. The industry has adopted our design approach and, as a result, we have been experiencing several years of rapid, steady growth and the trend is continuing!

Our vision is to migrate terrestrial computing and network communication techniques into space environments. The company’s expertise in networked processors has evolved into a line of high-performance, fault-tolerant flight control and sensor processing hardware and software solutions in wide and varied advanced space applications.

Xiphos’ primary markets are small satellites, space station applications, as well as lunar landers, rovers, and robotics. We have delivered our standard and custom products all over the world and have been essential to many successful space missions. With low power consumption, high processing power, enhanced flexibility, excellent robustness, and proven functions available off-the-shelf, our Q-cards are increasingly the preferred solution in the fast-growing field of NewSpace .

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Xiphos, a leading electronics system provider for the “new space” and small satellite markets, is seeking an experienced and product-focused Hardware Engineering Team Lead to lead our dynamic hardware development team. This critical role offers the opportunity to shape the development of low SWaP sub-system flight hardware.

At Xiphos, you’ll contribute to products that enable groundbreaking space missions, working within a culture that values innovation, results, and quality. Join us as we shape the future of space technology.

MAIN TASKS

Team Leadership

• Inspire, mentor, and guide a skilled team of hardware engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation
• Actively build the team’s skills and capabilities to take on complex work
• Assign, monitor, and review work across multiple simultaneous projects
• Manage deadlines, priorities and deliveries within a fast paced environment
• Manage subcontractors and external resources where required

Product Development and Ownership

• Oversee the development and delivery of high-quality electronic systems designed for space flight, ensuring alignment with customer needs and company objectives.
• Collaborate with customers to develop project requirements and obtain/ensure agreement on design approach and implementation
• Architect, design, develop, and document hardware for spacecraft payloads
• Working with Product Owners, help define/anticipate customer needs and develop solutions which widen Xiphos’ portfolio and presence in the flight hardware market

Processes

• Work closely with project managers to plan work execution across multiple mandates, with a focus on achieving results over rigid adherence to processes
• Build and maintain a robust product documentation
• Ensure compliance with external (customer) processes and requirements
• Champion cross-disciplinary collaboration, working closely with software, FPGA, test engineering, and systems engineering teams to ensure seamless product integration and delivery
• Support the development of tools and processes to enhance data-driven decision-making across the company, from sales engineering to manufacturing

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or Master’s in Electrical Engineering
• Proven leadership experience (7+ years) in hardware engineering, with a focus on embedded systems
• Familiarity with Xilinx FPGA-based systems is a significant asset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to align teams and stakeholders on technical and strategic goals
• Must be able to obtain Canadian government security clearance (Canadian Controlled Goods Program)
• An open, problem solving and team driven mindset
• Autonomous on allocated tasks yet communicative for team / customer critical decisions
• Ability to exchange with our customers in a proactive manner and work with them to deliver solutions
• Fluent in English and French (written and spoken)

ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE REQURED

• Industry experience in one or more of the following fields:
• Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft Avionics;
• High reliability electronics;
• Aircraft Avionics; or
• Uninhabited Vehicle Systems (Air, Ground, Surface).
• Software Define Radio (SDR)
• RF data converters
• RF front-end
• Digital system development
• FPGA based
• Memory interfaces: DDR, SSD, Flash based devices, etc.
• Data transfer interfaces: Ethernet, USB, I2C, SPI, etc.
• Applying industry standards
• IPC, MIL STD, NASA, ECSS, JEDEC, etc.

NICE TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE OF

• FPGA VHDL and/or Verilog development
• Simulation tools such as Hyperlynx, LTSpice, etc.
• JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab