Overview In this role you own the strategy and lifecycle of RF, DSP, and FPGA-based embedded products within a defense/aerospace context. You bridge engineering, product strategy, and customer needs to shape next-generation, rugged COTS solutions. You work with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, define requirements, and guide products from concept to launch. The position offers influence across customers, sales, engineering, and leadership, with a chance to impact long-term technology direction.
Compensation / Benefits- Salary range: $120,000 - $160,000
- Relocation assistance
- Visa sponsorship: U.S. Citizen, Green Card
- Minimal travel
- Full-time, direct hire
- Opportunities for career growth
Responsibilities- Own and maintain the product strategy for RF/DSP/FPGA solutions within the portfolio
- Develop multi-year roadmaps based on customer needs and technology trends
- Translate system-level requirements into product strategies and requirements
- Develop business cases and present recommendations to executives
- Lead concept definition and support NPI from requirements to launch
- Evaluate competitive technologies and form factors
- Manage product-line financial performance (revenue, cost, profitability)
- Collaborate with engineering to define requirements and development priorities
- Engage with sales, customers, and partners to identify opportunities
- Produce technical presentations, collateral, and training materials
- Support secure customer engagements as needed
- Monitor portfolio performance and propose enhancements or lifecycle changes
- Influence cross-functional teams and communicate complex tech to diverse stakeholders
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (7+ years in RF, DSP, FPGA, embedded electronics or related defense/embedded tech)
- Strong understanding of FPGA architectures, RF systems, and DSP
- Knowledge of complete RF-to-digital signal chain (RF front ends, data converters, FPGA processing)
- Experience translating technical concepts into product requirements and business cases
- Experience with embedded electronics and/or embedded software
- Ability to evaluate system-level tradeoffs and consider cost/manufacturability
- Effective communication with engineering, sales, customers, suppliers, and leadership
- strong communication
- customer-facing presentation
- cross-functional collaboration
- FPGA architectures
- RF systems
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)