Engineering Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience.
• Experience with one or more of the following: CCA design and test experience
• Product test and troubleshoot, inclusive of dispositions in factory manufacturing execution systems
• Hardware and software test equipment development
• Project management using an execution framework such as earned value management or Agile methodologies
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice To Haves

• One or more advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major. A suitable degree may be counted as 2 years of work experience.
• Experience with factory manufacturing execution systems
• Experience serving as a Hardware Architect, Control Account Manager (CAM), Cross Product Team Lead, and/or Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL)
• Experience in creating and presenting professional level design documentation to company leadership and program customers
• Experience with workforce planning and staffing forecasts
• A strong advocate for process improvement
• Demonstrated ability to manage technical and schedule risks and to identify cost reduction opportunities
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management Systems (cost/schedule development and management)
• Development of technical proposals, engineering project estimates, and/or white papers
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Experience designing at the circuit card stack level to meet concerns of adjacent disciplines, such as thermal, structural, mechanical, reliability, and quality.
• Experience with embedded test techniques, design for test, design for manufacturing, and/or design margin analysis
• Experience with a formal design process for circuit card assemblies.
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex hardware issues during integration and qualification testing.
• Advanced knowledge of high-speed protocols, such as PCIe, Ethernet, and high-speed memory interfaces.
• Siemens Xpedition: xDX Designer, xPCB Layout, and/or Hyperlynx signal/power integrity.
• Experience with complex, multi-lamination circuit card assemblies between 16 and 32 layers
• Expertise with Xpedition's Constraint Editor System (CES), routing practices for high-speed signals, and guiding Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) personnel through PCB layout and technical drawing creation.
• Experience with FPGA code development or software
• Experience with performing circuit card assembly-level architecture trades, and/or with system-level power architecture trades.
• Experience documenting technical topics and presenting to customers and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead successful teams.
• Experience managing technical, cost, and schedule risks and opportunities.
• Experience with project management tools such as Earned Value and/or Agile Execution.
• Experience leading a program transition from development to production.
• Proposal development experience.
• Experience with intellectual property generation (patents & publications).
• Demonstrated mentorship of junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Manage a section of 15 to 20 engineers.
• Drive results with a strong work ethic
• Apply active listening, empathy, and conflict resolution
• Enable career development for direct reports
• Develop training curricula, provide technical and process mentoring, and leadership skill development
• Lead functional and cross-disciplinary teams to meet organizational goals and project needs through team leadership
• Support program staffing needs working with program leadership.
• Support hiring (resume reviews, interviews, etc.) and annual compensation planning
• Elicit and compile performance feedback to support Performance Impact
• Hold required Performance Discussions (PD) where compiled feedback, key strengths and development needs are conveyed
• Work closely with other section managers, the department manager, the program management office, senior managers, senior staff engineers, systems engineers, and other development team members
• Ensure labor charging accuracy compliance
• Lead the design, analysis, test, and documentation of digital electronics circuit card assemblies including embedded processors, FPGAs, memories, and industry standard interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, and UART.
• Partner with ECAD drafters through stackup definition, pre/post-route simulation (SI/PI), layout, and routing activities.
• Plan and execute integration and verification activities in engineering laboratories.
• Provide product test and troubleshoot support.
• Support root cause failure investigations.
• Drive execution to the planned budget and schedule.
• Identify and manage project risks and opportunities.
• Lead medium sized teams to success.
• Coach, review, and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert within discipline.
• Lead internal and external technical reviews.
• Support customer interactions and relations.
• Interface with the factory on the build and testing of sub-assemblies
• Support the sustainment team and assist SMEs in the evaluation of repaired subsystems for return to the field
• Interface between program engineering and program management
• Coordinate the status of the technical issues with the program technical leadership team

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• flexible spending accounts
• flexible work schedules
• employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• parental leave
• paid time off
• holidays