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• Lead electrical engineering activities for the development of RF airborne avionics products from concept through certification and production
• Define system architecture and allocate requirements across RF, analog, digital, mixed-signal, software, FPGA/firmware, mechanical, and systems engineering disciplines
• Serve as technical lead for surveillance, communications, and collision avoidance products, including Mode S transponders, ADS-B systems, and TCAS equipment
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and engineering oversight to multidisciplinary development teams across EE and RF domains
• Support strategic product roadmaps and technology initiatives, including next-generation RF and avionics platform capabilities

• Lead RF architecture, design integration, and technical decision-making for avionics products
• Establish RF performance requirements and budgets for gain, noise figure, linearity, selectivity, isolation, spurious response, dynamic range, and coexistence requirements
• Drive RF trade studies and design reviews covering circuit design, layout, shielding, grounding, EMI/EMC, and environmental constraints
• Coordinate RF validation, laboratory characterization, and system integration activities
• Support certification readiness by ensuring RF-related design evidence, test coverage, and compliance artifacts are complete and defensible

• Develop, maintain, and own Hardware Requirements Documents (HRDs) and associated derived requirements
• Ensure traceability between customer, system, hardware, software, and certification requirements
• Lead requirements decomposition, validation, verification planning, and change management activities
• Establish acceptance criteria and verification methods for hardware requirements

• Manage and provide technical oversight of outsourced engineering partners responsible for RF, electrical, and hardware development activities
• Define statements of work, technical deliverables, schedules, design reviews, and acceptance criteria
• Conduct design audits and technical reviews to ensure compliance with company standards and certification requirements
• Coordinate technical communication between internal stakeholders and external development organizations
• Assess supplier technical risks and implement mitigation strategies

• Direct the design and development of complex digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF, and power electronics hardware
• Review schematics, RF signal chain implementation, PCB layouts, component selections, engineering analyses, and test results
• Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, manufacturability, maintainability, and certification objectives
• Support RF/hardware, hardware/software, FPGA, and system-level integration activities
• Drive design margins that support DO-160 environmental qualification and EMI/EMC robustness requirements

• Lead initiatives to reduce Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) across avionics product portfolios
• Drive design trade studies that balance performance, manufacturability, certification, and lifecycle objectives
• Promote Design for Manufacturability, Design for Cost, Design for Test, and Design for Reliability principles
• Establish engineering metrics and practices supporting next-generation avionics solutions

• Champion the adoption of AI technologies to improve engineering productivity, quality, and development efficiency
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset and evaluate opportunities to streamline engineering workflows
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and integrate effective practices into engineering processes to reduce repetitive and low-value work

• Lead hardware verification and validation activities throughout the product lifecycle, primarily through oversight of outsourced development partners
• Review and approve test plans, procedures, reports, and qualification data
• Support root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and corrective action investigations
• Ensure complete verification coverage and certification evidence generation

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline
• 10+ years of experience in aerospace, avionics, or safety-critical electronic product development
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience leading complex avionics RF and electrical hardware development programs
• Experience managing and overseeing external engineering design partners or contract development organizations
• Strong understanding of RTCA DO-160 environmental qualification requirements and RF/EE integration challenges in airborne systems
• Experience developing and managing hardware requirements documentation and requirements traceability
• Expertise in digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF, and power electronics design
• Experience supporting certification and regulatory compliance activities

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• Experience with FAA, EASA, TSO, ETSO, and military avionics programs
• Familiarity with DO-254, DO-178C, ARP4754A, and ARP4761 development processes
• Deep experience with RF systems and surveillance technologies including Mode S Transponders, ADS-B, IFF, DME, TCAS, or ACAS
• Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation solutions
• Experience with DOORS requirements management
• Experience with Altium design tools
• Project leadership or engineering management experience

• Technical leadership
• RF and electrical systems thinking
• Requirements engineering
• Supplier management
• Product ownership
• Strategic planning
• Risk management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• AI-enabled engineering innovation
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence technical direction across organizations

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.