Hardware Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage staffing for the hardware engineering team, including staffing plans, hiring, and resource allocation across projects.
• Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching. Mentor engineers and ensure their growth.
• Defines processes to ensure consistent, quality engineering.
• Ensures engineering processes are followed and development artifacts are produced.
• Understands the broad scope of development being performed by the mechanical engineering team across all relevant projects to avoid duplicated work and leverage complementary work.
• Supports projects as a domain technical expert by reviewing work and providing technical input as needed. Help solve ambiguous problems by providing guidance and direction.
• Supports bid and proposal efforts, especially for task scope and duration.

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, hire, mentor, and develop the hardware engineering team.
• Manage staffing, resource allocation, and engineering priorities across programs.
• Establish and maintain effective engineering processes, reviews, and documentation.
• Promote collaboration, reuse, and standardization across projects.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a senior hardware engineering resource across vehicle and robotics programs.
• Review designs, analyses, drawings, requirements, test plans, and other technical deliverables.
• Guide engineers through complex or ambiguous technical challenges.
• Support mechanical, structural, hydraulic, manufacturing, electrical, and vehicle-system development.
• Support prototype development, testing, integration, and troubleshooting.

Program & Customer Support

• Work closely with program managers, technical leads, engineers, and DoD customers.
• Support requirements, planning, scheduling, risk management, and technical reviews.
• Support proposals through technical scope, staffing, schedule, and cost estimates.
• Travel to customer sites, test locations, and other facilities as needed.

Requirements

• 3+ years leading, hiring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Engineering field.
• Mechanical system design and development
• Ground vehicle, structural, hydraulic, and electro-mechanical systems

CAD modeling, engineering drawings, GD&T, and tolerance analysis

• Manufacturing processes, design for manufacturability, and production support
• Requirements development, technical reviews, and engineering documentation
• Cross-functional development with electrical, software, autonomy, and manufacturing teams

Preferred

• Experience with autonomous/unmanned ground vehicles or complex robotic systems.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001:2015.
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Military officer or equivalent leadership experience.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative, high-performing teams.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering, technical leadership, and/or program management experience.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Required Technical Competencies

Prototype development, integration, testing, and troubleshooting

Additional Requirements

This position requires access to information subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Candidates selected for this position must meet applicable eligibility requirements for access to export-restricted information. Under ITAR/EAR regulations, a U.S. person is generally defined as a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), political asylee, or refugee.

Must maintain eligibility to hold a DoD clearance

Benefits

Stratom offers an array of benefits to eligible full-time employees, including health insurance, life and AD&D insurance, a retirement investment plan, annual paid time off, and holiday pay.

Stratom is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of, race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, handicap, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation

$150,000 - $180,000 / year