Systems Engineering Manager jobs in Melbourne, FL

Azure Summit Technology is a mature, growing small business with locations in Melbourne, Florida, and Fairfax, Virginia, that develops and delivers high-performance RF hardware, firmware, and software products, and innovative, practical, multi-function RF systems solutions that address emerging missions of national importance for customers across the Department of Defense.  We are a diverse team of highly qualified RF systems engineers and mission subject matter experts (SMEs) with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, RF, hardware, software, firmware and systems engineering, working together within a creative, innovative and highly collaborative culture, to deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers.  To do this, we hire people with a passion to succeed.  We look for problem solvers.  People who have unique perspectives and diverse experience.

Are you in?

Do you work well in a team environment and on your own as an individual contributor?  Do you know how to set the bar high and achieve goals for yourself and bring others along with you?  Do you work hard and play hard?  Do you want to help the company succeed and build your skill set and further your career at the same time?  Azure Summit Technology just might be the place for you.      

What do we do?

Azure Summit Technology provides a wide range of multi-channel software defined radio solutions for applications including surveillance, emitter location, and interference cancellation. Systems can be tailored to meet a variety of requirements for bandwidth, dynamic range, number of channels, and computational resources. Supported platforms range from resource-constrained small UAVs and wearable devices to manned aircraft and submarines. Azure also offers innovative signal processing solutions to challenging problems in the realm of radio frequency spectrum awareness.

What will you do?

Azure Summit Technology is currently seeking a Systems Engineering Manager. The selected candidate will be part of a dynamic, growing, cross-functional, and geographically distributed team.  This position is located on-site at our facility in Melbourne, Florida, with consistent travel to our office in Fairfax, Virginia, and/or other locations as needed to support customer activities.  Your future team has worked together to produce the following job description:

The new manager will be responsible for managing technical personnel in a department with a size of approximately 5 to 10 and growing.  Responsibilities will be divided 20% functional management role and 80% direct charge program role.  Functional management will include staff management, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, coaching/mentoring, career development, and performance management.  Direct program work will include Systems Engineering technical work leadership (IPT leadership, CAM, and/or Systems Engineering mission).  The selected candidate will be responsible for design, development, modification, and evaluation of complex signals intelligence, radar, and communications prototype development systems. Duties will include technical responsibility for planning and executing technical programs, projects, to include customer interface, requirements development, design reviews, and technical interchanges, and all aspects of prototype/product system design, development, demonstration, and evaluation.   

Basic Requirements

• US citizenship, due to the nature of the work and contract requirement
• Active DoD TOP SECRET security clearance with the ability to obtain a TOP SECRET SCI, due to contract requirement
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or another relevant field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience developing and implementing real-time system architectures for one or more of the following applications: signal detection, geolocation, modulation/demodulation of modern digital communication waveforms, direction-finding, beamforming, adaptive array processing, radar range and Doppler processing, spread-spectrum, and/or MIMO communications
• Minimum 5 years’ experience leading development and integration of prototype RF systems for one or more of the following domains: communications, radar, signals intelligence, or electronic warfare

Preferred Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Masters’ or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or another relevant field
• Minimum 10 years’ experience leading development and integration of prototype and/or production RF mission systems 
• Minimum 5 years’ experience leading development and integration of RF mission payloads into manned and/or unmanned airborne platforms 
• Strong oral, written and presentation skills and record of success in writing winning proposals and/or achieving follow-on program growth based on technical success and high customer satisfaction

Azure Summit Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Azure Summit Technology provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. Azure Summit Technology expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment or discrimination based on any of the characteristics mentioned above. Improper interference with the ability of other employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. To request accommodation, contact Julia Bergeman, 571-455-6486, julia.bergeman@azuresummit.com.