Engineering Manager (Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware)

Join our fast-growing aerospace and defense startup as an Engineering Manager, Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware. In this critical leadership role, you will lead and coordinate our high-speed digital electronics teams across multiple sites and product lines. You will be responsible for delivering well-engineered digital and mixed-signal hardware on schedule, ensuring architectural consistency and high-quality execution. You will also provide hands-on technical expertise to critical designs, architecture reviews, and complex debug activities.

• Lead and coordinate high-speed digital electronics teams across multiple sites and product lines, ensuring architectural consistency and high-quality execution.
• Establish, mature, scale, and enforce engineer-friendly digital hardware development processes, including high-speed interface design guidelines and signal integrity simulation workflows.
• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing digital and mixed-signal hardware engineering team, advocating for realistic schedules while holding the team accountable to delivery commitments.
• Demonstrated deep expertise in high-speed digital and mixed-signal board design
• Minimum of 7–9 years of progressive digital or mixed-signal hardware engineering experience, preferably in aerospace environments, including 1–3 years of leadership or engineering management experience preferred
• Strong understanding of signal integrity (SI) and timing
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required
• Software-defined radio experience preferred
• Experience supporting design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and transition from development to production
• Hands-on experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium
• Ability to balance architectural rigor with execution speed in a fast-paced development environment
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems required
• Familiarity with FPGA toolchains (e.g. Xilinx Vivado) preferred
• Proficiency with high-speed simulation and analysis tools such as Ansys SiWave or ADS SiPro
• Proven ability to conduct rigorous technical reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate effectively across disciplines
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills