Engineering Manager, Advanced Products

Ralliant•Plainville, CT

107d•$91,740 - $170,500

About The Position

The Engineering Manager, Advanced Products leads a multidisciplinary team of experienced electrical and mechanical engineers, translating customer and market opportunities into product concepts and enabling technologies. The role guides requirements development, technology evaluation, concept development, and technical risk reduction, while building a team equipped to solve increasingly complex problems with rigor and independence. It is suited to an accomplished electrical engineering leader moving from individual technical contribution into full-time team leadership. The manager leads advanced product development from opportunity through concept design freeze and ensures a clear transition to Product Realization. They provide electrical engineering judgment while drawing on the team's specialized expertise, shape technology roadmaps and product architectures, and partner with Product Management to align customer and market needs with technical feasibility and readiness. The position emphasizes technical judgment, disciplined learning, earlier risk identification, and developing engineers into strong technical owners. Gems Setra, part of Ralliant Corporation's Precision Technologies platform, supplies sensing and monitoring technologies. Its products include liquid-level, flow, and pressure sensors; miniature solenoid valves; proximity switches; fluid-management solutions; and instruments for humidity, current, vacuum, energy, and pressure measurement. The company describes its vision as connecting customers to their environment to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
7+ years of progressive experience developing electronic, electromechanical, sensing, instrumentation, or similarly complex products.
Demonstrated progression from individual contributor into technical or team leadership, such as Lead, Senior, Principal, Chief, Project, or supervisory responsibilities; formal people-management experience is not required.
Strong electrical engineering foundation and sufficient multidisciplinary breadth to lead experienced electrical and mechanical engineers and engage credibly in system-level technical decisions.
Experience developing products from early requirements and concept development through design, validation, and execution.
Experience translating customer or market needs into requirements, evaluating technical alternatives, and maturing early ideas into credible product concepts.
Ability to reduce technical uncertainty through analysis, experimentation, prototyping, testing, and structured engineering problem solving.
Experience developing others through technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, design reviews, or team leadership while enabling engineers to maintain ownership of their work.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and experience working with Product Management and other functions involved in bringing engineered products to market.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree.
Experience with sensor, instrumentation, embedded electronics, measurement, or controls technologies.
Exposure to technology roadmapping, product architecture, platform development, or external technology partnerships.
Familiarity with electrical and mechanical engineering design environments; Altium and SolidWorks experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead advanced product development from opportunity through concept design freeze, translating customer needs into technically sound product concepts ready for Product Realization.
Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary engineering team, developing Senior and Principal engineers into stronger technical owners and independent problem solvers.
Guide sensing, electronic, and electromechanical product development, applying electrical engineering judgment and leveraging the team's specialized expertise.
Drive technical discovery and risk reduction through requirements development, architecture, analysis, experimentation, prototyping, and early validation.
Shape technology roadmaps and product architectures by identifying capability gaps, reusable technologies, platform opportunities, and ways to develop or acquire needed capabilities.
Partner with Product Management to connect customer and market opportunities with technical possibilities, feasibility, and readiness.
Lead through technical judgment by challenging assumptions, facilitating tradeoffs, raising engineering rigor, and maintaining ownership within the team.
Ensure a strong transition to Product Realization through clear requirements, technical direction, understood risks, and mature product definitions.
Extend technical capability through external awareness and partnerships, selectively engaging customers, suppliers, universities, and emerging technologies.
Develop team members through technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, design reviews, and team leadership while enabling engineers to maintain ownership of their work.