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CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Manager for Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware to lead and coordinate high-speed digital electronics teams across multiple sites and product lines. This is a highly technical leadership role responsible for delivering well-engineered digital and mixed-signal hardware on schedule across a diverse portfolio of software-defined radios, space computing platforms, and phased array control systems.
The role combines people and process leadership with hands-on technical expertise. You will provide technical ownership for board- and system-level high-speed digital designs while leading functional team execution, staffing, and engineering process maturity in a fast-growing aerospace and defense startup. You will contribute directly to critical designs, architecture reviews, and complex debug activities, ensuring products are scalable, manufacturable, testable, and robust at production volumes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Maintain technical integrity and engineering excellence for board-level digital and mixed-signal electronics development across the company
- Establish, mature, and scale engineer-friendly digital hardware development processes, including high-speed interface design guidelines, signal integrity simulation workflows, and PCB standards
- Provide detailed technical review and mentorship through architecture and design reviews, identifying design risks early and ensuring appropriate cross-disciplinary engagement
- Occasionally contribute directly to board-level designs, particularly for high-risk or schedule-critical programs
- Lead or support complex debug efforts involving high-speed interfaces and large FPGA implementations
- Ensure digital hardware designs are buildable and testable at scale using DFM and DFT best practices
- Drive disciplined handoff from engineering to manufacturing through close collaboration with manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and production test
- Ensure designs meet quality, reliability, and scalability requirements for aerospace and defense production
- Partner with Supply Chain on component availability, lifecycle risk mitigation, and cost awareness
- Drive design reuse, modular architectures, and platform commonality across products
- Build, scale, and lead a high-performing digital and mixed-signal hardware engineering team of approximately 8-12 engineers distributed primarily across Austin and Westminster, with a smaller presence in El Segundo
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers through one-on-one coaching, mentoring, and deep technical guidance
- Partner with product and program leadership to plan work, allocate resources, and surface technical risk early
- Own staffing and team development, including hiring, performance management, career development, and succession planning
- Plan and manage budgets related to staffing, lab equipment, capital equipment, and design/simulation software
- Maintain strong working relationships across Engineering, Quality, and Operations
This front-line engineering management role is ideal for excellent engineers who want to grow their impact by designing teams to make more hardware than they can individually. Some engineering management experience is preferred but not required; the successful candidate may be a senior or principal engineer motivated to take the next step in their career.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (required)
- Minimum 7 years of direct digital or mixed-signal hardware engineering experience, preferably in aerospace environments
- 1–3 years of small-team technical leadership or engineering management experience (preferred but not required)
- Demonstrated expertise in high-speed digital and mixed-signal board design
- Strong understanding of signal integrity (SI) and timing
- Experience supporting design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and transition from development to production
- Proven ability to conduct rigorous technical reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate effectively across disciplines
- Ability to balance rigor with execution speed in a fast-paced development environment
- Proficiency with high-speed simulation and analysis tools such as Ansys SiWave or ADS SiPro
- Deep hands-on experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium
- Familiarity with FPGA toolchains (e.g., Xilinx Vivado) preferred
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
