Job Title: Senior Manager, Electrical & RF/Wireless EngineeringJob Location: Simi Valley, CA (This position is 100% onsite)Business Unit: DatronSchedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off.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 practices based on expertise. Develops or champions new concepts or technologies. Opportunities for problem solving and innovation are often complex, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that impact multiple functions and/or businesses. Extensively analyzes problems to seek understanding of the root cause of the problem.
- Recommends operational plans and tactics that will directly impact the achievement of overall functional results. Directs the execution of tactics established by functional leadership. Establishes operational plans for the job area with short- to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1-2 years). Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources, and occasionally influences business decisions made by functional leadership. May recommend and implement new products, processes, policies, standards or operating plans in support of job function strategy. May have budget or Profit & Loss (P&L) accountability for the department.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
- Specialized skill sets including digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, and control systems and or experience with RF and antenna systems.
- Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across the function. Typically has mastery within a specific technical area or broad expertise across multiple related job areas.
- Ability to complete up to 10% travel yearly, domestic or international.
- The ability to obtain and maintain a future Security Clearance is required for the role. Eligibility requires U.S. citizenship.
Why Join Fisica, Inc.:- Competitive salary and benefits package!
- Generous paid time off.
- 401k with 6% match and vesting is immediate.
- Strong work-life balance.`
- Tuition Reimbursement.
- Paid parental leave.
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role $158,500 - $294,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as the final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Fisica Inc also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on the date of hire, and schedule type.
