Senior Manager, Product Development

HRL Laboratories•Calabasas, CA

About The Position

HRL Laboratories, an IBM company, is seeking a self-motivated engineer with strong communication and leadership skills to lead its Product Development team. The team turns laboratory prototypes into deliverable hardware, firmware, and software products. The role is approximately 40% management and 60% technical contribution. The Senior Manager leads the Product Development team, including front-line managers, and sets technical direction, priorities, and staffing across programs. The position combines personnel and organizational leadership with technical leadership in product architecture, system integration and test, and design reviews from concept through delivery. It also establishes product development processes and shares responsibility for program cost, schedule, and technical performance with program managers. The role includes customer briefings, proposal leadership and contributions, invention disclosures, and representing HRL product capabilities to government and commercial customers. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance are required; an active clearance is a plus. Travel may be required up to 10% of the time. The position is based in California for compensation-range purposes, but the work location type is not specified.

Requirements

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
10 or more years of experience developing electronic, RF, or sensor systems, including 5 or more years leading engineering teams.
Demonstrated record of transitioning hardware, firmware, or software from an R&D prototype to a fielded or production product.
Working knowledge of embedded systems and firmware, mixed-signal hardware, and system-level integration and test.
Experience with systems engineering practices, including system analysis, system architecture, requirements flow-down, trade studies, modeling and simulation, interface control, design reviews, and verification and validation.
Familiarity with regulations and standards for military systems (MIL-STD).
Experience managing cost, schedule, and technical risk on government or commercial programs.
Ability to communicate clearly with staff, program managers, executives, and customers.
Proficiency with computers, engineering workstations, and complex electronic equipment; strong oral and written communication.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, independently and in teams.
Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

M.S. or Ph.D.
Experience coaching front-line managers.
Strong background in RF and millimeter-wave system architecture for radar, EW, and communication systems.
Experience with DoD programs and their delivery and documentation standards.
Active security clearance.

Responsibilities

Lead the Product Development team, including front-line managers, and set technical direction, priorities, and staffing across programs.
Allocate personnel to projects; recruit; manage performance through formal and informal feedback; coach managers; and contribute to lab-wide assignments such as business development and capital investment planning.
Serve as technical lead for product architecture, system integration and test, and design reviews from concept through delivery.
Establish and maintain product development processes, including requirements management, configuration management, verification and validation, and documentation suitable for customer delivery.
Own program execution for cost, schedule, and technical performance in partnership with program managers.
Brief customers, lead and contribute to proposals, write invention disclosures, and represent HRL product capabilities to government and commercial customers.