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Salary: USD 170,000 - 210,000 / annual
Archaius Inc, a U.S.-owned small business headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, specializes in anti-jamming and signal resilience technologies for the electromagnetic spectrum. The company designs, develops, and deploys hardware and software protection that safeguards GPS and other radiofrequency signals in contested electromagnetic environments. Solutions protect National Essential Functions, ensure continuity of commercial critical infrastructure (energy, communications, and logistics), and serve U.S. federal agencies, law enforcement, military, and allied partners.
You will lead and grow the engineering organization as an Engineering Manager, managing Principal Engineers and Leads across RF, Electrical, Embedded Firmware, Application Software, Systems Integration, and Security disciplines. This is a people-first management role where you hold accountability for team health, delivery outcomes, and organizational performance. Technical direction is set by the CTO and owned day-to-day by Principal Engineers and Leads; you own people, process, and delivery.
Key responsibilities include: managing, developing, and retaining Principal Engineers and Leads across all engineering disciplines while fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement; developing engineering leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and clear career growth paths; partnering with Principals and Leads on performance cycles with final HR accountability including PIPs and compensation/promotion recommendations; owning delivery across the full product development lifecycle from concept through integration, validation, and production readiness; coordinating priorities, schedules, and resources across engineering verticals and serving as escalation point for cross-discipline conflicts; partnering with the CTO to translate technical direction into team plans and delivery commitments; establishing governance rhythms for design reviews, risk management, and quality gates; and driving resource planning, workforce development, headcount forecasts, and hiring to scale the engineering organization.
The role requires leading through delegation, trusting Leads and Principals to own their domains while maintaining full accountability for outcomes and risk. You will represent engineering in executive reviews and customer discussions, manage complex schedules and cross-functional dependencies, and demonstrate strong communication skills in presenting status, trade-offs, and recommendations to executives and customers.
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance with company contributions, 401(k), Life Insurance, HSA, unlimited flexible paid time off, paid holidays, company-wide breaks (two-week winter shutdown, one-week summer break in early July, Wednesday-Friday break over Thanksgiving), DoorDash-provided lunches four days per week for in-office employees, and free DashPass for all employees.
Requirements:
- Master's degree in Electrical, Computer, or related Engineering field
- 10+ years in hardware and/or software product development
- 4+ years managing multi-disciplinary teams including senior engineers and technical leads
- Strong people leadership experience including performance management, hiring, succession planning, and organizational development
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale engineering teams through periods of growth
- Demonstrated experience leading through delegation while maintaining full accountability for outcomes and risk
- Sufficient familiarity with hardware and software product development to understand trade-offs, judge schedule estimates, and spot delivery risk
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex schedules, delivery milestones, and cross-functional dependencies in fast-paced environments
- Excellent communication skills for presenting to executives and customers
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency status
Preferred Skills:
- Experience managing through technical leads who own day-to-day mentoring and draft reviews while you hold final HR accountability
- Working familiarity with embedded systems, RF/electrical hardware, or application software
- Experience managing interdependent hardware and software workstreams through production; knowledge of DFM, DFT, and software validation practices
- Exposure to compliance standards (EMI/EMC, cybersecurity, safety-critical software) and applicable regulatory frameworks
- Experience in a startup or high-growth defense technology environment
- This position may involve overseas travel to environments with elevated risk factors
