Digital Design Engineering Manager

Delivering mission-critical, electronic solutions that protect lives. Use your creativity and critical thinking to take our products from concept to customer.

At CAES, we engineer solutions for the world's most critical missions. We serve customers in the defense and aerospace markets.

Seeking a career that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Looking for a position with a company that offers long-term professional advancement? Searching for a place that values a diverse, team-based environment? One that values YOU. Consider CAES.

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Is your Superpower in the "wizardry" of Digital Design and Project Management? Our world-class Lansdale Digital Engineering team needs your skills! Our Digital Engineering Manager role will manage new technical design, development, analysis, implementation, and test of digital hardware and associated software to interface with complex RF subsystems and/or motion-controlled positioner assemblies. The candidate will provide leadership for key project segments and take responsibility for achievement of schedule and technical performance by all department personnel located at various sites (primarily Lansdale, PA).

The ideal candidate is a leader with a strong embedded software and digital signal processing (DSP) background who takes a programmatic approach to development for project design, estimation, execution, and performance tracking. The individual may be an active contributor while coordinating work closely with other management disciplines to help drive a strong engineering organization that delivers quality products on-time and on-budget.

• Define and deploy the strategic vision for the Digital/Embedded SW group
• Manage the department resources across a wide variety of programs and IR&D activities
• Assure technical, cost, and schedule goals are met for each development effort
• Provide technical input and support for digital and mixed signal opportunities; including capture strategy, work breakdown structures, architecture, and costing.
• Drive the development & implementation of best practices for rapid development, verification, and release management
• Provide engineering expertise and leadership to achieve high customer satisfaction and performance objectives
• Manage talent, including recruitment, mentoring, training, and performance evaluation for proper resource availability and career progression
• Work with cross-functional engineering resources to ensure teams meet the product, business, and time-to-market requirements defined by the company
• Establish the budget for labor, capital, and maintenance for the group
• Contribute to corporate technology roadmap definition and IRAD strategies
• Proactively develop successors for organizational positions and work with team to ensure a robust talent pipeline and career development
• Foster effective relationships at all levels, to enhance and support a culture of learning, empowerment, and collaboration

Minimum:

• Three (3)+ years' experience as a Manager or technical leader of a large program
• Eight (8)+ years' experience with C and/or VHDL programming
• Written VHDL/Verilog for state of the art FPGAs such as Altera (Quartus Prime IDE) or Xilinx (Vivado)
• Experience designing for embedded hardware (e.g. FPGAs, micro-controllers, memory, ADCs, DSPs, etc.)
• Familiar with common HW/SW interfaces/data protocols (e.g. TCPIP, UDP, RS-422, USB, PCI, CAN)
• Successfully held responsibility for budget & schedule allocation/tracking of a team or multiple large projects
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting software & hardware
• Worked with measurement equipment such as digital or spectrum analyzers, scopes, etc.
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by US export laws. In order to be eligible for this position, you must be a "US Person" under US export laws (or eligible for approval under a U.S. Government export license)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from a four-year college or university
• Designed/developed hardware/firmware for multi-board/processor systems with both FPGAs and CPUs
• Familiar with motion control & associated HW dynamics for high performance/accuracy
• Familiarity with SoC implementations such as Nios or ARM, PSoC Creator environments
• Familiar with MS Project, earned value, and resource allocation
• Applied signal processing techniques with Analog to Digital (ADC) and DAC components
• Experience writing digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for signal detection or classification
• Experience interfacing with and parameters of RF components; switches, amps, attenuators, TDUs, etc.
• Experience implementing control algorithms for motion tuning
• Tracking of department key performance indicators/metrics
• Ability to develop/derive requirements for software/firmware from higher-level system specifications
• Worked in a Linux, RTOS, and Windows environment on embedded or application SW
• Excellent leadership, organization and communication skills with the ability to maintain a positive and proactive approach to resolve conflict and/or business issues
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to changing priorities and assignments
• Ability to influence others; persuasively present thoughts and ideas; gain commitment and ensure support for proposed ideas
• Active DOD Secret Clearance

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Salary Range: Manager Digital Engineering: $157,388.19 - $243,600.83 annually. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate.

EMPLOYMENT TRANSPARENCY

BENEFITS

We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits - from day one. You'll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level - and beyond.

Other benefits include:

• Comprehensive PTO, Paid Holiday and Paid Family Leave Programs.
• Student Loan Repayment Program & Tuition Reimbursement
• 9/80 Alternate Work Week Schedule
• Tailored Management/Leadership Training
• Innovative Medical Programs, Including Family Forming

ABOUT CAES

CAES is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

At CAES we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email CAEScareers@caes.com.