Systems Engineering Manager

About the role

Gogo is looking for a hands-on, collaborative, and highly accountable Systems Engineering Manager to manage the System Engineering team. This position will work as part of a tightly integrated development team, bringing together cross functional groups through the product development life cycle. The Systems Engineering team is a core pillar of the Gogo development process that encompasses distilling product requirements and asks into development requirements and architectures, supporting cross-functional teams through their development, certification, and verifying and validating the end-to-end solution.

How will you make a difference?

• Proactively manage all aspects of the System Engineering function
• Ensure compliance to AS9100, DO-178, and DO-254 process
• Anticipate, adapt, and guide the team through changing priorities
• Demonstrate the ability to swarm systems engineering tasks and deliverables to augment the team when required
• Provide clear product requirements and supporting data to cross-functional teams to enable the Systems Engineering team to achieve their goals
• Hire, motivate, train, mentor, and develop exceptional Systems Engineers
• Champion your team's ability to think outside the box and push technical boundaries by understanding setbacks and strategize together to reposition and move forward

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Fields or equivalent work experience
• 5-7 years' of hardware, software, or avionics system development experience
• 4 years' direct, hands-on people management experience

Required Skills, Experiences & Talents

• Avionics industry, DO-178/DO-254, and/or DO-160/MIL-STD experience
• In-depth familiarity with systems engineering and product development processes
• Knowledge and experience in both hardware and software development process

Preferred Skills, Experiences & Talents

• Industry experience in telecommunications systems a plus
• Satcom and/or 4G LTE/5G experience a plus

Pay

• Base Pay: 140,000.00 - 175,000.00 USD Annual
• Target Annual Short-Term Incentive Bonus Plan at 15% (% of Annualized Base Pay)
• Eligible For Incentive Stock Program: Yes

Benefits

• Competitive benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage with plans that can fit each employee's needs
• Immediate vesting 401k plan
• Paid time off and volunteer time off
• Option to participate in an Employee Stock Purchase Plan