Senior Manager, Product Development

•    Lead the Product Development team, including front-line managers, and set technical direction, priorities and staffing across programs
•    Line management duties include allocating personnel to projects, recruiting, performance management through formal and informal feedback, coaching managers, and lab-wide assignments such as business development and capital investment planning
•    Serve as technical lead for product architecture, system integration and test, and design reviews from concept through delivery
•    Establish and maintain product development processes: requirements management, configuration management, verification and validation, and documentation suitable for customer delivery
•    Own program execution for cost, schedule and technical performance in partnership with program managers
•    Brief customers, lead and contribute to proposals, write invention disclosures, and represent HRL product capabilities to government and commercial customers

•    B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred
•    10+ years of experience developing electronic, RF or sensor systems, including 5+ years leading engineering teams
•    Demonstrated record of transitioning hardware, firmware or software from R&D prototype to fielded or production product
•    Working knowledge of embedded systems and firmware, mixed-signal hardware, and system-level integration and test
•    Experience with systems engineering practices: system analysis, system architecture, requirements flow-down, trade studies, modeling and simulation interface control, design reviews and V&V 
•    Familiarity with regulations and standards for military (MIL-STD)
•    Experience managing cost, schedule and technical risk on government or commercial programs
•    Ability to communicate clearly with staff, program managers, executives, and customers

•    Experience coaching front-line managers
•    Strong background in RF and millimeter-wave system architecture for radar, EW and communication systems

•    Experience with DoD programs and their delivery and documentation standards

•    Proficiency with computers, engineering workstations and complex electronic equipment; strong oral and written communication
•    Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, both independently and in teams
•    Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time

•    U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance
•    Active Clearance is a plus

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