# Head of Avionics Engineering

**Company**: Millennium Space Systems
**Location**: El Segundo, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $179,000 - $268,000
**Category**: Engineering

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## Description

We are seeking a Head of Avionics Engineering to inspire, coordinate, and lead our hardware engineering team. As a key member of our technical leadership team, you will develop and sustain a vision for continued growth and improved efficiency for the hardware engineering team.

**Responsibilities:**

- Engineering Communication & Strategic Alignment:

- Communicate organisational initiatives and corrective actions to meet performance targets

- Provide context for company happenings and explain situations in relation to employees, teams, and the company

- Set technical direction and standards for the engineering team

- Establish and maintain standardisation of project management tools

- Develop Objectives and KPIs that align with company goals

- Program Execution & Technical Oversight:

- Coordinate risk management across teams and escalate critical risks

- Oversee program-level schedules and approve staffing plans

- Review and approve proposal labour estimates and technical baselines

- Manage communication with program directors and PMs

- Cross-Functional Collaboration:

- Collaborate with teams to enforce commonality of tools, analysis, processes, and standards

- Partner with Quality and Safety teams to ensure risk posture is understood

- Work with Manufacturing leadership teams to provide support in designing for manufacturability

- Process Improvement & Operational Efficiency:

- Look for cross-team relationships and set priorities for process improvements

- Approve tools/software for efficient use across engineering teams

- Manage OH budget across engineering teams

- Talent Development & Leadership:

- Mentor and review front-line managers and direct reports

- Identify talent for Technical Fellow positions and career growth paths

- Sponsor cross-team initiatives to drive innovation

**Requirements:**

- Minimum 14 years of experience as an engineering professional in the aerospace defence industry

- 4 years' experience as a functional manager

- Experience in spacecraft development and hardware engineering design and analysis

- Knowledge of satellite systems and components

- Experience in electrical ground support equipment, electrical power systems, avionics design and analysis, RF products design and analysis, command and data handling, radiation and reliability design

- Ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering

- Experience with iterative and/or agile development processes

- Experience with serial data protocols, Verilog, FPGAs, git, JIRA, Confluence

- Aerospace industry experience

- National Security experience

- Active TC/SCI

**Salary Range:** $179,000 - $268,000

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- spacecraft development
- hardware engineering design
- satellite systems
- avionics design
- RF products design
- command and data handling
- radiation and reliability design

### Nice to have
- iterative development
- agile development
- serial data protocols
- Verilog
- FPGAs
- git
- JIRA
- Confluence

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