Engineering Manager, Real-Time Controls and Instrumentation

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the planning, managing, and technical performance of an engineering unit through all phases of assigned project(s) from inception through completion.
• Work with GA-EMS Engineering staff in the development, implementation, integration, and test of controls and instrumentation systems across a variety of product lines and technology areas.
• Serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert for National Instruments cRIO systems, LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real-Time, and LabVIEW FPGA, providing technical support, architectural guidance, and troubleshooting leadership to the engineering team.
• Lead system-level troubleshooting efforts involving multiple engineering disciplines and software environments. Work across subsystem boundaries and coordinate engineers with specialized expertise toward root-cause identification and resolution.
• Lead and participate in technical, architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Provide technical mentorship and help engineers decompose problems, evaluate design approaches, understand system interactions, and develop effective solutions.
• Remain sufficiently hands-on to directly support LabVIEW/cRIO development, debugging, integration, and troubleshooting when required.
• Understand the logic, interfaces, and data flow of text-based software such as C#, C++, or similar languages sufficiently to support technical reviews, troubleshooting, and engineers working in those areas.
• Apply and promote sound software architecture and design principles including modularity, abstraction, interfaces, object-oriented concepts, separation of concerns, maintainability, and testability.
• Participate in engineering planning, staffing, estimation, and scheduling activities.
• Communicate technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering and program leadership.
• Represent the organization as a technical contact on assigned programs and interact with internal and external personnel on controls and instrumentation matters.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in engineering or a related technical field as well as nine or more years of progressively complex engineering experience.
• May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Strong experience with National Instruments LabVIEW and cRIO systems, including LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA development.
• Demonstrated ability to think architecturally and evaluate controls and software solutions at the system level, including component responsibilities, interfaces, dependencies, integration, maintainability, and testability.
• Strong system-level troubleshooting skills, with the ability to reason across hardware, software, communications, instrumentation, and subsystem boundaries.
• Ability to read and understand the logic, interfaces, and data flow of software implemented in text-based programming languages such as C#, C++, or similar languages. Expert-level development proficiency in these languages is not required.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts clearly, mentor engineers, provide constructive technical guidance, and lead engineering efforts.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines, programs, customers, and management.
• Experience with C# and object-oriented application development is desirable but not required.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering activities and developing technical talent through technical leadership, mentoring, project leadership, and/or people management.
• Able to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance is required.
• Some travel may be required.