RF Software Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of engineers responsible for spacecraft communication and GPS receiver systems.
• Own the architecture, development, integration, verification, and delivery of RF communication and GPS receiver software, simulation, and FPGA logic.
• Drive development and testing of interfaces between RF hardware, GPS receivers, flight computers, spacecraft flight software, and ground systems.
• Establish software development, FPGA development, testing, code review, documentation, and release practices appropriate for flight-critical RF and navigation systems.
• Direct and participate in design, code, and FPGA logic reviews, ensuring implementations are maintainable, testable, reliable, and ready for flight.
• Partner with RF and avionics hardware teams during board bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, and qualification.
• Develop team priorities, technical roadmaps, schedules, and staffing plans in coordination with program and engineering leadership.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard engineers as the RF software organization grows.
• Identify technical and programmatic risks early and drive them to resolution.
• Support spacecraft integration, environmental testing, ground-station testing, launch, commissioning, and mission operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience in developing software for wireless systems in critical applications.
• 2+ years of demonstrated technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing embedded software in C++.
• Strong understanding of RF communication systems, including modulation, demodulation, signal processing, calibration, and RF system control.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated Xilinx UltraScale+ board bring up and development experience.
• Strong understanding of the major blocks of RF signal modulation/demodulation.
• Familiarity in testing RF components such as PA’s, PLL’s, LNA’s, and mixers.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or integrating baseband systems using BPSK, QPSK, and related digital modulation schemes.
• Familiarity with GPS/GNSS receiver concepts such as signal acquisition and tracking.
• Demonstrated experience writing software or firmware for a space environment (space link budgets, ground station integration, etc.).