Responsible Engineer
Leads multidisciplinary antenna hardware development from architecture through production and field deployment, coordinating mechanical, electrical, RF, embedded, thermal, manufacturing, and test functions. Requires a technical degree, 3–5+ years of complex hardware experience, and hands-on systems integration expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own technical development and execution of an antenna system or major subsystem from concept through production and deployment.
- Translate product, customer, and mission needs into system requirements, architectures, interfaces, performance budgets, and verification plans.
- Coordinate development across mechanical, electrical, RF, antenna, embedded software, thermal, manufacturing, testing, supply chain, and field operations.
- Build and manage development schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risk-mitigation plans.
- Lead system-level trade studies covering antenna performance, structural design, power, thermal behavior, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and deployment speed.
- Drive prototype builds, system integration, test campaigns, root-cause investigations, and production-readiness reviews.
- Contribute directly to design, analysis, prototyping, testing, and troubleshooting within a primary engineering discipline.
- Provide engineering leadership with updates on progress, risks, decisions, and resource needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, RF Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 3–5+ years of experience developing complex hardware, antenna systems, RF products, aerospace systems, or similarly multidisciplinary technology.
- Deep individual-contributor expertise in mechanical design, electrical hardware, RF hardware, antenna engineering, embedded systems, or systems integration.
- Experience owning a complex hardware product or subsystem through design, prototyping, integration, testing, and delivery.
- Strong systems-thinking ability and experience managing technical interfaces and cross-disciplinary tradeoffs.
- Experience translating ambiguous product objectives into requirements, development plans, schedules, and test strategies.
- Hands-on experience building, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting physical hardware systems.
- Strong organization, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with phased-array antennas, ground station antennas, satellite communications systems, radar systems, or other complex RF hardware.
- Experience with antenna structures, RF enclosures, electronics packaging, thermal management, environmental sealing, cable routing, or electromechanical integration.
- Familiarity with antenna elements, amplifiers, filters, frequency converters, beamforming electronics, calibration systems, and RF distribution networks.
- Experience taking hardware from early architecture through qualification, production, installation, and field operation.
- Experience with environmental testing, design for manufacturing, supplier management, and production-readiness processes.
- Track record of resolving complex integration issues across mechanical, electrical, RF, embedded, and software boundaries.
Skills
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Rf Engineering, Systems Engineering, Phased-Array Antennas, Satellite Communications, Radar Systems, Embedded Systems, Thermal Management, Beamforming Electronics, Environmental Testing, Design For Manufacturing, Supplier Management, System Integration
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