Senior Project Manager, Bus Systems

About the role

E-Space is bridging Earth and space to enable hyper-scaled deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services. We are building a highly-advanced low Earth orbit (LEO) space system that will fundamentally change the design, economics, manufacturing, and service delivery associated with traditional satellite and terrestrial IoT systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive the bus system development program from early design through qualification and delivery.
• Own the integrated program schedule across RF, mechanical, and manufacturing workstreams, and keep it honest against reality on the floor.
• Plan and run the gated lifecycle: SRR, PDR, CDR, qualification and acceptance reviews, with real entry/exit criteria, action tracking, and closure.
• Maintain the risk register and drive mitigations to closure rather than letting them age.
• Coordinate suppliers, contract manufacturers, and machine shops: quotes, lead times, quality escapes, and schedule recovery when a part slips.
• Interface with systems engineering on requirements flow-down, verification planning, and interface control, so the program plan and the technical baseline stay in step.
• Keep design, build, and test cycles short: unblock the team, sequence the work, and make sure prototypes and test articles show up when the engineers need them.
• Work daily with RF, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers. You need enough technical depth to challenge an estimate, spot a risk before it appears in a status report, and make sensible trades without waiting for an engineer to translate.

Requirements

Hands-on familiarity with RF and electronic systems: PCB development cycles, board bring-up, RF test campaigns and what makes them slip.

Hands-on familiarity with mechanical development: machining, tolerancing, prototyping workflows, and the practical lead times behind each.

A track record running gated program lifecycles with formal reviews, and the judgment to know when a gate is genuinely passed versus passed on paper.

A working knowledge of systems engineering practice: requirements flow-down, verification and validation planning, interface management.

A clear, direct communication up and down: engineers get context, leadership gets truth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years managing hardware development programs in aerospace or a comparable regulated industry.

Skills

• Comfort in a fast prototyping environment where the plan changes weekly and the program manager is the one keeping it coherent.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Continuous learning and development

Health and wellness care options

Financial solutions for the future

Optional legal services (US only)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Pay

$140,000 - $210,000 annually

Schedule

Full time, exempt position, based out of our Santa Clara, CA office.