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Build candidate pipelines and execute full-cycle recruiting for aerospace, engineering, manufacturing, support, and executive roles. Partner with hiring managers to understand technical requirements, source and assess candidates, manage requisitions, coordinate interviews, recommend candidates, negotiate offers, and develop creative sourcing campaigns and recruiting strategies in a fast-paced startup environment.

Leads pre-contract program formation for satellite and airborne communication products, translating customer needs and solution architectures into executable scope, requirements, cost, schedule, staffing, risk, supplier, and resource baselines. Coordinates Product, Engineering, Finance, Contracts, Supply Chain, Business Development, and program teams through proposal development, contract definitization, transition to execution, and early milestones. Supports product reuse and roadmap decisions while ensuring technical, contractual, cost, and schedule commitments are achievable.

Leads the Applications Engineering organization and serves as the primary technical interface for customers integrating, deploying, and operating complex communication products. Owns customer feedback, product adoption, integration support, documentation, technical enablement, and product roadmap input. Partners across Product, Engineering, Business Development, and program teams to resolve technical challenges, develop scalable application solutions, and improve products based on customer experience.

Manages subcontract personnel and end-to-end subcontract execution across programs, including sourcing, negotiations, awards, modifications, supplier performance, risk management, compliance, and closeout. Leads team priorities, resource allocation, coaching, and performance management. Partners with program management, procurement, engineering, finance, legal, and suppliers to resolve complex commercial issues, control costs and schedules, improve supplier performance, and ensure compliance with FAR/DFARS and contractual requirements.

Designs, analyzes, and implements RF engineering test plans, procedures, architectures, and automation for satellite and aerospace communication systems. Performs RF measurements, manages laboratory equipment, analyzes results, supports design-for-test reviews, and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams. Presents findings to customers and executives, contributes to proposals, and guides equipment purchasing decisions.

Leads strategic sourcing across categories and commodities, including supplier selection, negotiations, long-term agreements, make-or-buy analysis, and supply-risk mitigation. Establishes sourcing priorities, develops teams, evaluates supplier economics and capacity, and builds strategies supporting cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and business growth. Partners with procurement, engineering, finance, program management, supplier quality, and executive leadership while advancing sourcing governance, analytics, systems, and continuous improvement.

Lead mission assurance and quality activities for aerospace communication systems. Ensure customer requirements are implemented across design, manufacturing, integration, and testing; manage deliverables, supplier flow-down, audits, risks, nonconformances, and corrective actions. Participate in design and failure review boards, develop and tailor quality processes, and train cross-functional teams on mission assurance requirements and procedures.

Designs, analyzes, verifies, and delivers satellite Command and Data Handling electrical subsystems. Responsibilities include subsystem architecture, interfaces, make-buy trades, vendor coordination, design verification and qualification testing, hardware delivery, cross-functional collaboration, technical communications, and on-orbit support. The role requires spacecraft electrical system design experience, hands-on electronics debugging, knowledge of processors, digital I/O, power, grounding, telemetry, and flight software controls, plus familiarity with environmental and radiation testing.

Develop product positioning, value propositions, competitive messaging, and go-to-market communications for technical aerospace and satellite products. Translate complex engineering capabilities into clear customer-facing content, coordinate product launches, support sales enablement, analyze markets and competitors, and collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, and Marketing. Evaluate content and launch performance while recommending improvements to commercialization strategies and marketing processes.

Leads complex FPGA engineering operations initiatives, including project planning, scheduling, resource coordination, workflow development, process improvement, tool integration, risk mitigation, and cross-functional execution. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management, and operations teams to improve engineering effectiveness, schedule performance, documentation, training, and adoption of repeatable processes.