Electrical Engineering Technical Lead - Antenna Systems

What you’ll do Technical & Systems Leadership

• Serve as the technical lead for antenna technology, spanning L-band through Ka-band (and higher bands as applicable).
• Own the allocation, traceability, and optimization of system requirements across LRUs and subsystems to meet performance, reliability, cost, and schedule.
• Provide technical direction across antenna architectures, including phased arrays and other sophisticated solutions, selecting the most efficient system approach aligned to market opportunity.

• Define and institutionalize antenna system electrical design standards, design rules, review checklists, and documentation expectations (schematics, harnessing, grounding, EMC/EMI practices, test requirements, etc.).
• Establish standard processes for requirements flow-down, design verification, and acceptance criteria, ensuring repeatable design quality across programs.
• Lead technical reviews and act as a multi-functional point of contact for blocking issues related to complex build decisions and trade studies.

• Identify and implement automation driven by sophisticated technologies that accelerate electrical engineering workflows. Examples are requirements to develop traceability, schematic linting/QA, auto-generation of test procedures, build reuse, BOM normalization, and change impact analysis.
• Build a roadmap formodel-based and data-driven design practices that measurably improve engineering throughput and reduce defects.

• Drive EPLAN adoption and integration across the electrical build lifecycle of antenna systems (libraries, templates, part data strategy, revision control, manufacturing outputs).
• Enable seamless handoffs between engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain by improving data integrity, configuration control, and documentation consistency.

• Partner with integration/test teams to define RF test strategies, validation methods, and solving approaches for antenna systems.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and standards bodies (e.g.,FCC, ETSI, ITU, as applicable), including documentation readiness and test evidence.

• Maintain awareness of antenna system innovations and guide technology insertion plans to keep products competitive.
• Be recognized as a technical authority in engagements with external antenna providers and suppliers, influencing design maturity, qualification approach, and make/buy decisions.

• Mentor and develop engineers—especially early-career talent—through coaching, design reviews, and creation of learning pathways.
• Promote a culture of high ownership, visibility, continuous improvement, and willingness to change.

• 10+ years of dynamic experience in antenna systems / RF systems / electrical engineering with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong command of antenna system engineering principles:
  
  EIRP, G/T, sidelobes, linearity, noise figure, gain, VSWR, and system-level tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding ofRF and satellite communications theoryand how it translates into practical product requirements.
• Demonstrated proficiency inantenna and RF testing, including selecting correct measurement approaches and using relevant test equipment to characterize performance.
• Experience with detailed RF validation of components (amplifiers, switches, filters, interconnects, etc.).
• Working knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g.,FCC, ETSI, ITU).
• Practical familiarity with RF hardware and integration elements:waveguide, cabling, filters, power dividers, terminations, etc.
• Strong problem-solving ability for isolating and resolving complex system issues across hardware/software/test boundaries.
• Ability to support multiple concurrent developments and sustaining efforts; capable of developing contingency plans to protect schedules.
• Experience creating cost and schedule estimates for proposals and sustaining work.
• Excellent communication, documentation rigor, and organizational skills.
• BSin Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field (or…