CesiumAstro
Engineering Manager
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Senior Engineering Manager – Aerospace & Defence Product Development
at CesiumAstro
We’re builders and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and airborne platforms. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and autonomous environment, we’d love you to join us.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and deliver a complete product development team—from design conception to manufacture and test. This highly technical leadership role demands an expert who can balance engineering excellence, schedule adherence, and strategic budget management while championing innovation in a fast-growing aerospace and defence startup.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Accountability: Uphold engineering integrity across all product development phases, establishing and enforcing engineering-friendly processes, guidelines, and rigor in design reviews.
- Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Collaborate across digital, RF, power, firmware, and mechanical disciplines, ensuring board- and system-level success. Participate where hands-on expertise is needed (e.g., high-risk or schedule-critical designs).
- Debug & Analysis: Lead or support complex debug efforts, addressing ill-defined problems requiring conceptual thinking and deep technical judgment.
- Mobility & Reliability: Drive designs to meet aerospace-grade quality, readability, scalability, and testability while collaborating with manufacturing, supply chain, and test engineering.
- Strategic Alignment: Guide digital architecture decisions tied to product performance and long-term technology roadmaps. Champion design reuse, modular architectures, and cross-product commonality.
- Interpersonal Influence: Form strong technical links across worldwide teams, sharing best practices and convincing stakeholders of departmental outcomes. Enhance scientific compliance and internal ecosystems.
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Team Leadership & Growth
- People Development: Build and scale a high-performance engineering team, fostering talent through hiring decisions, growth pathways, mentorship, and constructive performance coaching.
- Stakeholder Relations: Advocate for realistic schedules while holding the team accountable. Bridge gaps between Engineering and Quality/Operations for seamless workflows.
- Resource Management: Oversee lab/R&D equipment purchases, capital investments, software licensing, and staffing budgets. Report financial projections to upper management.
- Initiative Ownership: Collaborate early in engineering execution with Business Development/Systems Engineering.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
Education & Specialization
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related discipline.
Technical Competencies
The ideal candidate will have:
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7+ years in electronic product development, with 1–3 years in leadership or engineering management (preferred).
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Board-level design (Aerospace-optimised): Expansive expertise in high-speed digital and mixed-signal designs (component selection → schematic capture). Proficient in reliability analysis (MTTF) for thermal, vibration, EMI, and radiation environments. Dense PCB layout mastery: multi-layer designs with DFM, DFT, and signal integrity analysis.
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PCB/Circuits:
- Multilayer stackup design, mechanical coupling and cooling strategies.
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Digital & Computer Systems: FPGA design flows: VHDL on AMD/Xilinx (Vivado) platforms. SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS (preferred). Product regression testing environments—ensuring robustness at limits. Emabded Systems: Linux/Yocto, BSD development, C++ and driver design.
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Hardware Design: Controls power sequencing, surge protection, and component life-risk mitigation. Outline systems for thermal management and RF schemática alignment.
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Development Methodologies: PLM system familiarity (billing PLMs like LabView, Team Center, CP2E). Trade-off analysis—balancing architectures rigor against execution speed.
Soft Skills & Business-Academic Fit
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Leadership & Communication:
- Rigorous technical reviews (subject matter expertise alignment).
- Discipline handoff to manufacturing while interfacing with engineering teams globally.
- Cross-department esprit:
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Technical Diplomacy:
- Track by persuasion, negotiation, and conflict resolution in multifunctional/business environments.
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Collateral/Cooperative Sensing Tools and Applications: A sound intuition for certification trends (e.g., DO-160 and MIL-STD compliance).
How You’ll Enhance CesiumAstro
The best applicants shape our organization’s impact through high ownership, innovative systems engineering, and disciplined execution. Fabrica mandates unrestricted certifications or environments that need secretary VQ clearance.
Please ensure any candidates align to all security nec ablesheinфикация requirement and restrictions, as these extend from the supplier chain to headlines.
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