Hardware Engineering Manager - Electronic Warfare

About the role

CACI's Mastodon Design delivers cutting‑edge Electronic Warfare (EW) and SIGINT solutions, designing and building hardware and software that can be fielded immediately to meet mission needs. The team emphasizes size, weight, power, and packaging, and works across specialized electronic and mechanical design, embedded and application‑level software, reverse engineering, protocol analysis, and RF signals exploitation. The hardware engineering group also shapes, evaluates, and validates peripherals and accessories that complement core EW/SIGINT products.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary hardware engineering group spanning Power Supply, Digital, RF, and General Support/Sustainment Engineering.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineering technicians and professionals across the hardware team.
• Set technical priorities and direction for hardware activities, partnering with Mechanical, Systems Engineering, and Product Management stakeholders.
• Oversee sustaining engineering, including obsolescence management, engineering change orders, and post‑production support for fielded products.
• Manage staffing and resource allocation across concurrent programs and product lines.
• Collaborate with Project and Program Management, and Operations to align schedules, budgets, and deliverables with program needs.
• Drive hardware design standards, design review processes, and continuous improvement across the group.
• Partner with supply chain and procurement on component selection, vendor relationships, and long‑lead item planning.
• Support proposal efforts with hardware‑focused technical write‑ups, staffing plans, and basis of estimates (BoEs).
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical hardware issues spanning power, digital, RF, and communications disciplines.
• Champion a strong safety, quality, and test culture across the hardware engineering team.
• Travel locally up to 10% as needed.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of hardware engineering experience, including leadership or management of a team.
• At least 3 years of management experience with direct reports.
• Experience in one or more of the following: power supply design, digital hardware design, RF or communications hardware, or sustaining engineering.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and develop engineers and technicians.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize work across multiple concurrent programs.
• Comfortable partnering with program management, systems engineering, and supply chain to keep hardware efforts on track.
• Willingness to obtain a Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with EW/SIGINT hardware, or ruggedized and embedded systems.
• Familiarity with sustaining engineering and obsolescence management processes.
• Experience managing vendor and supplier relationships for electronic components.

What You Can Expect

• A culture of integrity, with character and innovation at the center of everything CACI does.
• An environment of trust that values the unique contributions of every employee.
• Flexible time‑off benefits that give autonomy over personal scheduling.
• Robust learning resources to support professional growth and career ambitions.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, family support, continuing education, and other time‑off benefits.

Pay

The proposed salary range for this position is $105,100 – $231,100. Final compensation may vary based on geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.