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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, lead functional team execution, and drive engineering process maturity in a fast-growing aerospace and defense startup. Beyond management, 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 maintaining technical integrity across digital and mixed-signal electronics development; establishing and scaling engineer-friendly development processes including high-speed interface design guidelines and PCB standards; providing detailed technical review and mentorship through architecture and design reviews; occasionally contributing directly to board-level designs to close gaps in high-risk or schedule-critical programs; leading complex debug efforts involving high-speed interfaces and large FPGA implementations; ensuring designs meet DFM and DFT best practices; driving disciplined handoff from engineering to manufacturing; ensuring quality and reliability for aerospace and defense production; partnering with supply chain on component availability and cost; and driving design reuse and platform commonality across products.
You will build, scale, and lead a high-performing team of approximately 8–12 engineers distributed primarily across Austin and Westminster, with a smaller presence in El Segundo. Responsibilities include hiring, performance management, career development, coaching, succession planning, one-on-one mentoring, and budget management for staffing, lab equipment, capital equipment, and design software. You will partner with product and program leadership to plan work, allocate resources, surface technical risk early, and hold the team accountable to realistic delivery commitments.
Success means your team delivers high-quality, manufacturable hardware predictably and on schedule; designs transition successfully into repeatable production at required scale; engineering quality improves as the organization grows; teams benefit from shared engineering practices and technical knowledge; and you build a stronger engineering organization with emerging technical and people leaders.
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
