Engineering Manager, RF Hardware

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintain technical integrity and engineering excellence for RF electronics development across the company.
• Establish, mature, scale, and enforce engineer-friendly RF hardware development processes, including analysis and simulation templates, schematic design standards, checklists, and layout best practices for dense, high-layer-count PCBs.
• Lead and participate in rigorous architecture and design reviews, ensuring appropriate subject matter expert (SME) engagement across digital, RF, power, firmware, and mechanical disciplines.
• Apply strong working knowledge of adjacent disciplines – digital electronics, power electronics, mechanical engineering, software – to ensure board- and system-level success.
• Contribute directly to board-level RF designs as needed, particularly in high-risk or schedule-critical programs.
• Lead or support complex debug efforts involving RF boards.
• Ensure RF hardware designs are buildable and testable at scale using DFM and DFT best practices.
• Drive disciplined handoff from engineering to manufacturing through close collaboration with manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and production test engineering.
• Ensure designs meet quality, reliability, and scalability requirements for aerospace and defense production environments.
• Partner with Supply Chain to ensure component availability, lifecycle risk mitigation, and cost awareness.
• Drive design reuse, modular architectures, and platform commonality across products to accelerate execution and reduce risk.

Team Leadership, Staffing & Performance Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing RF hardware engineering team.
• Advocate for realistic schedules while holding the team accountable to delivery commitments.
• Lead hiring activities, including writing job descriptions, conducting interviews, and making hire/no-hire decisions.
• Establish clear development paths and growth opportunities for high-performing engineers.
• Address performance issues promptly and constructively.
• Actively close skill gaps through hands-on mentorship, training initiatives, or targeted hiring.
• Provide one-on-one coaching, mentoring, and deep technical guidance.
• Serve as a key contributor to early-stage engineering execution planning, including collaboration with Business Development and Systems Engineering.
• Plan and manage budgets related to staffing, lab equipment, capital equipment, and design/simulation software.
• Maintain strong working relationships across Engineering, Quality, and Operations.