Key skills
SaltStackLeadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Serve as primary technical interface between Government, prime contractor, subcontractors, and third-party manufacturers
- Lead technical reviews of antenna systems, RF chains, environmental qualification results, and performance verification data
- Evaluate manufacturing readiness, production quality metrics, and configuration control across terminal builds
- Oversee system-level integration, test events, sell-offs, and compliance verification activities
- Identify performance deficiencies and require corrective action plans with measurable resolution criteria
- Coordinate RMA investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and material procurement to support fleet repair timelines
- Track fleet fielding schedules, quantities, configuration baselines, and retrofit impacts
- Interface with development engineers, logistics teams, and finance teams to align technical fixes with cost, procurement, and schedule realities
- Assess technical risk and provide leadership-level briefings with clear mitigation strategies
Requirements
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline
- Experience supporting DoD acquisition programs with hardware production elements
- Experience participating in or leading design reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR)
- Experience supporting system sell-offs and compliance verification events
- 5–8 years of experience supporting military SATCOM terminal or comparable complex RF hardware systems (commercial experience may align)
- Strong working knowledge of antenna systems, RF front-end architectures, radomes, mechanical packaging, and environmental constraints
- Demonstrated ability to review and challenge test procedures, qualification data, and performance verification results
- Experience supporting environmental qualification testing (MIL-STD-810, EMI/EMC, shock, vibration, thermal, salt fog, etc.)
- Experience interfacing directly with vendors and holding them accountable to requirements and schedule
- Understanding of production baseline control, configuration management, and manufacturing oversight
- Ability to independently assess technical trade-offs and recommend disposition to leadership
- Active DoD SECRET clearance
Tech Stack
- SaltStack
Benefits
- 401K plan with company match
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- AD&D
- Flexible spending account
- Disability
- Paid time off
- Flexible work schedule
- Bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation per internal policy or contractual designation