Manager of Systems Design- DRT

Thales Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI) Headquartered in Clarksburg, MD, is a U.S. company that has been serving domestic and international defense Air, Land and Sea domains for 60+ years. With over 1,000 employees, TDSI and its four subsidiaries (Advanced Acoustic Concepts, Digital Receiver Technology, Tampa Microwave, and Trusted Cyber Technologies), supports U.S. Joint Services, special operations forces and multi-national partners with a variety of communication, visualization, signal intelligence/electronic warfare, and sensor/sonar capabilities.

TDSI's key technologies include tactical handheld radios, expeditionary satellite terminals, helmet-mounted displays, optics and target recognition capability, advanced radars, undersea sensing and missile systems. Lives depend on what we do!

Top Benefits (Subject to terms of applicable policies/plans)

* Competitive Salary

* Yearly Incentive Compensation Plan

* Medical insurance for self and eligible family members

* Generous 401(k) program- up to 7% company contribution and 100% immediate vesting

* Tuition Reimbursement

* Paid wellness, vacation, and holiday leave

* Paid maternity, paternity, and parental leave

* 9/80 Work Schedule (every other Friday off)

* Hybrid working environment

We are seeking to fill a Systems Engineering Manager position located in our Germantown, MD Campus focused on our DRT (Digital Receiver Technologies) line of Electronic Warfare/ SIGINT software-defined radio technologies. This role is responsible for providing technical and organizational leadership and is well suited for a motivated and experienced engineering manager or design/ systems engineer with technical leadership experience. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical understanding and systems design of hardware and software for SIGINT/EW equipment coupled with a strong understanding and experience in the organizational development of people and processes.

Responsibilities

* Provides technical and managerial leadership for the DRT Systems Engineering department.

* Proactively interfaces with engineering project leads, program management leads and engineering management in resolving issues, coordinating department staffing resources, equipment and facilities and managing department activities.

* Works with department staff to develop and achieve strategic business plan objectives.

* Provide subject matter expertise of DRT systems and products.

* Provide subject matter expertise of hardware and software systems (both integrated and modular designs) of high complexity and high-density which utilize RF transceivers, filters, microprocessors, DSPs, memory systems, FPGAs, user interfaces, antennas and high efficiency low noise power supplies capable of supporting advanced algorithms used in state-of-the-art SIGINT and EW products.

* Support product development teams with use case analysis, requirements capture and allocation, trade studies, architectural design, development and analysis, system implementation, unit level testing, automated testing, integration, verification and validation efforts and transition to manufacturing.

* Support Business Development with technical support for business capture, including customer meetings, RFI responses and white paper generation, requirements elicitation and proposal support.

* Develop technical proposals and support cost estimations.

* Evaluate competing products and solution offerings.

* Represent Thales/DRT at relevant industry forums.

* Develops, maintains and enforces Thales/DRT development processes and tools.

* Support design reviews and other technical interchanges.

* Support integration, installation, testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of equipment during development phase and customer lab and field trials.

* Support government certification testing of equipment.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's operating policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities can include interviewing, hiring, training and developing employees; creating effective staff plans - assigning and directing work in a matrix organization; performance appraisals,…