Title Senior Project Engineer
Location CA

The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for the technical leadership of complex development and production programs. The Senior Project Engineer is the main engineering point of contact for their assigned projects, coordinating between functional disciplines within Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, and Quality to ensure smooth operations and resolve technical issues. This customer-facing role is an exciting, dynamic, and fast-paced matrix leadership position.

Prepares engineering proposals. Defines, generates and reviews project requirements documentation. Monitors project to ensure work scope, schedule and budget are well defined and maintained. Provides coordination between resource managers/supervisors to ensure required program support and reviews/approvals are completed in a timely manner. Responsible for conducting project reviews during life cycle of development through production transfer. Performs technical studies to analyze and refine project requirements.

Responsibilities
• Participate as a leader in projects including Research & Development, new product development, redesign, and sustained production programs.
• Manage an RF subsystem development effort with responsibility for all relevant technical disciplines including RF design, mechanical design, manufacturing, integration and test, and subsystem engineering.
• Is proactive in seeking out and resolving integration issues among different engineering disciplines during the development process
• Develop, build and manage the integrated multi-function program team and represent both the interests of the customer and the business from a technical standpoint.
• Act as the primary technical interface with the customer and other departments
• Work with program and engineering management teams to identify and mitigate risk during design process
• Interface with Executive Staff and Program Management leadership on all aspects of design execution
• Aid in development of project planning documents, including Integrated Master Schedules, Integration and Test Plans, Resource Plans, Capital Equipment Plans, and other documents.
• Work closely with program management to adhere to schedule and budget and is accountable for the Profit and Loss.
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Provide consistent and regular metrics to support Customer SDRLs and internal leadership
• Maintain project schedule, provide inputs to project Estimation at Complete (EAC), report adherence to cost and schedule baselines for project. Provide input for the preparation of baseline change requests, variance reports, and manage resource requests.
• Provide technical direction for team, lead trade studies, lead development of design reviews, and anomaly resolution teams. Work with program management and other Project Engineers to meet all project deliveries and to ensure delivered systems meet all customer requirements.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications

Qualifications
Minimum
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• 5 years of previous Project Engineering experience or related experience in design and development of broadband integrated.
• Ability to obtain and maintenance Security Clearance
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by either ITAR or EAR U.S. export laws. As a condition to this job offer, in order to be employed in this position, you must be able to obtain an U.S. Government export license(s), as required by law.
Preferred
• Five (5) years of experience in RF/Microwave subsystem design and a working knowledge of related simulation/modeling and verification techniques.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification