Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for on-time delivery against business needs, seeking out-of-the-box creative solutions when needed over business-as-usual to hit business commitments
• Instill a culture of using engineering best practices around work instructions, engineering documentation, BOM, and document management
• Identify and act on areas of improving team productivity
• Build and design to reflect professional and aesthetic expectations of deployed hardware
• From high-level business goals, synthesize strategic plans for the technical department, including technical scope, schedule, and budget
• Develop and execute the strategy around contracting manufacturing against YoY targets
• Execute and achieve YoY cost reduction targets
• Execute and achieve YoY cycle time improvement targets
• Identify and execute on outsourcing opportunities
• Technical deliverables must be designed for cost and manufacturability, as well as superior performance

Own and manage execution of the above plans, including

• Tracking and reporting of progress against the plan (with Program Management)
• Department resource allocation and prioritization to meet the milestones
• Risk/opportunity identification and management
• Accountability for all department results (technical performance, scope, schedule, cost) and interdependencies with partner organizations
• Use of external partners and key suppliers to reduce hardware cost and cycle time

Identify department-level staffing needs and fill key gaps via

• Mentorship, training, and managing of first-level managers
• Hiring, Cross-training
• Talent resource reviews
• Real-time coaching and feedback
• Succession planning
• Skip-level meetings

Serve as owner of all departmental lab spaces

• Work with facilities, Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), security, and IT as needed to communicate key requirements
• Partner with above orgs to identify and implement compliant procedures and processes

YOU MUST HAVE:

• Bachelor's Degree minimum
• Minimum 7+ years of industry experience developing advanced electronics systems
• Minimum 2+ years of management experience with direct-reporting technical personnel
• Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. person (defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status)

WE VALUE:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field preferred
• Experience managing managers
• Demonstrable expertise in one or more fields of electrical engineering (ie analog or digital design, RF systems, FPGA programming, etc.).
• Familiarity with Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics and/or Quantum Computing
• Experience in complex task management (cost, schedule, risk/opportunity, etc.)
• A track record of high-technology (engineering, or physical science) development
• Strong organizational & leadership skills; Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A cool, even-keeled temperament to keep conversations productive even in times of pressure and change
• Cross-functional mentality: commitment to empowering and enabling all organizations within the business
• Strategic thinking: aptitude for aligning tactical activities with strategic business objectives
• Programmatic acumen: experience creating, driving, and tracking complex project plans

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