Senior Engineering Manager – FPGA and Board Support Package Software (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-02-21

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Senior Engineering Manager – FPGA and Board Support Package Software (Onsite)

Our industry-leading experts are setting the standards for the aerospace industry and paving the way for the future. But as new challenges present themselves, we need fresh, creative and motivated minds to overcome these hurdles, help us break barriers and achieve new levels of innovation. Do you have what it takes to join a global, diverse organization that doesn’t shy away from big opportunities? If so, we invite you to join our ranks and create the next generation of aerospace technologies. Together, we will nurture an engineering culture that values intellectual curiosity, risk takers and integrity. A place where we will challenge ourselves, our teams, and the status quo and where we will work to find a way – the right way – to achieve what others can only dream of.

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for managing the engineering development and program execution of FPGA and Board Support Package (BSP) SW development for Collins Aerospace Mission Systems (MiS).  Responsibilities include engineering management and engaged involvement in all aspects of FPGA and software development and integration efforts as well as project management skills including earned value analysis.  A strong candidate will have eight to ten years of applicable development and/or management experience in FPGA and/or BSP software. 

What You Will Do:

Responsibilities include planning, organizing, resource allocation, personnel development, performance reviews, salary planning, and overall group management FPGA and SW engineers.  The position requires project execution direction to the engineering team. Candidate must demonstrate sound decision making skills, communication skills, networking skills, and able to accurately forecast project work and costs.  A successful candidate will also have a high-level understanding of systems and hardware development. 

  Candidate will work directly with and/or manage daily activities of FPGA and SW engineers, project engineering, program management, and supporting organizations to develop FPGAs and BSP SW for military products based on product line architectures. 

Candidate will lead the engineering team using strong interaction, interpersonal, mentoring and negotiating skills, and will be responsible for managing project risks/issues and elevating to upper management when appropriate. In addition, the candidate will be responsible for adhering to, and supporting Collins process methodologies while developing and managing commitments to meet project financial and schedule deliverables and quality requirements.  

A successful candidate will have proven ability to guide and lead development processes, develop the team composition, and will be responsible for training. Extensive experience in all product development phases from concept, Preliminary Design (PDR), Critical Design (CDR), code and unit testing, software\hardware integration and product deliveries is highly desired. 

Candidate will work directly with systems engineering teams and coordinate requirements identification, development and acceptance testing of software deliveries. A successful candidate will need the ability to matrix multiple programs and development tasks while supporting the various projects objectives of cost and schedule. 

                                                   

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Must have or be capable of obtaining a US Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance.  Candidate selected will be subject to a government security investigation/reinstatement and must meet eligibility requirements 

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with bid narrative write-ups, earned value reporting
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Subversion and GIT, SEER-SEM or SEER-H estimation modeling tool.  
• Experience in use of embedded Operating Systems using Linux, Green Hills Integrity, VxWorks, and\or LynxOS is a plus. 
• Experience with Agile development concepts is a plus. 

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