Senior Manager, Electrical & RF​/Wireless Engineering

Job Title:
Senior Manager, Electrical & RF/Wireless Engineering

Job Location:
Simi Valley, CA (This position is 100% onsite)

Business Unit:
Datron

Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off.

About Fisica Inc.

Fisica, Inc. is a premier manufacturer of advanced defense products, specializing in the design and production of airborne and ground-based antennas, as well as cutting-edge electromagnetic systems and simulators. Headquartered in San Leandro, California, with additional operations in Simi Valley, Fisica plays a vital role as a trusted partner to leading defense primes and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Our company operates as - ATI, Randtron, Datron and Space Vector-each bringing deep expertise and innovation to the defense sector. Led by a seasoned management team, Fisica is committed to excellence in engineering, manufacturing, and mission-critical solutions that enhance national security.

At Fisica, we foster a strong, collaborative work culture that values individual contributions and empowers our employees.

Our commitment to innovation, integrity, and teamwork makes us a leader in the defense industry and an exceptional place to build a career.

Position Summary:

The Sr Manager, Electrical & RF/Wireless Engineering, is responsible for architecting, designing, developing, modifying, evaluating and integrating electronic equipment, parts, components, and integrated circuitry for complex, high performance hardware systems, as well as the analysis, design, implementation, optimization and enhancement of RF and wireless telecommunications networks. Determines design approaches and parameters and analyzes electrical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

May use high level programming languages to configure programmable logic devices. Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications, reliability and operational characteristics that may impact system performance or sustainability, and may review vendor capability to support development. Applies specialized skill sets including digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, Antenna, RF and control systems knowledge as required.

Wireless and network responsibilities include link budget analysis, system dimensioning for coverage and capacity including traffic analysis, initial system design and dimensioning, coverage planning, site identification, evaluation and zoning support, frequency planning, and interference analysis and optimization. May develop, design and assess the methodologies and performance of specialized algorithms for radar, communications, sonar, geophysical, and other sensor processing applications.

Responsibilities:

• Manages experienced professionals, lower level supervisors, or managers. Often leads one or more teams or a department. Communicates within and outside of the organization to influence leadership to accept new practices, approaches, and concepts. Develops or champions new concepts or technologies. Manages the implementation of functional strategies and recommends operational plans that directly impact the short- to mid-term function or business area results.
  
  Requires broad management and cross-functional leadership knowledge and mastery level knowledge within a specific technical area or broad expertise across multiple related job areas.
• Manages experienced professionals or team(s) led by lower level supervisors or managers. Often leads one or more teams or a department. Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for team or department to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results. Has hiring, firing, promotion and compensation authority within own organization, in accordance with management review and approval.
  
  Reports to Director or higher.
• Responsible for improving upon existing or establishing new processes and systems using significant conceptualization, reasoning and interpretation. Solutions are innovative and unique and draw upon best…