Manager, Electrical Engineering

Since its inception in 2004, Geost has been committed to solving mission-critical space domain and ISR challenges for DOD, IC and commercial customers. Our vision is to revolutionize the space-based payload market with innovative and novel designs for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. As we grow our operations in Tucson, AZ and Chantilly, VA, we remain dedicated to the collaborative and innovative culture that is the foundation of our business. Geost is an operating unit of LightRidge Solutions.

Position Summary

Geost seeks an enthusiastic and highly skilled Electrical Engineering Manager to join our functional leadership team. This position is responsible for managing the utilization, career growth, and well-being of engineers in the Electrical Engineering functional group in addition to supporting programs as an individual contributor (approximately 80% individual contributor support and 20% functional management). An ideal applicant will possess a strong technical background in electrical engineering in addition to excellent leadership skills. With the support of the broader team, they will deliver fully validated systems that meet program specifications on cost, schedule, and quality targets.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and lead a team of electrical engineers by fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and support the professional development of team members. Develop a professional engineering team culture to meet deadlines and uphold personal accountability.
• Functional Budgeting: Manage the functional budget, generate ROI assessments for discretionary efforts such as process improvements or tool development, and control overhead charging rates to specified levels.
• Technical Guidance: Provide expert guidance and mentorship to the electrical engineering team by offering insights and solutions to complex technical challenges. Stay updated with the latest advancements in electrical engineering technology and guide the team in adopting best practices and innovative approaches. Act as core assessor in engineering gate reviews and peer review events to ensure work quality and task closure.
• Electrical Design and Analysis: Lead and participate in the design, analysis, and optimization of electrical systems for space applications. Use software tools, simulations, and analytical techniques to assess electrical design performance, and quality, power management, impedance matching, as well as digital, high frequency and nodal analysis. Determine the architecture and lead the detailed electronics analysis and design using both digital and analog circuit design skills.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including mechanical engineers, optical engineers, and systems engineers to ensure seamless integration of electrical systems into satellite platforms. Foster effective communication and teamwork across departments.
• Documentation, Reporting, and Writing: Prepare technical reports, project documentation, technical proposals, and presentations to communicate progress, findings, and recommendations to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Mission Assurance: Implement and support rigorous quality control measures throughout the electrical engineering process to ensure compliance with industry standards and customer requirements.
• Design for Manufacturing: Establish processes and design guidelines to support seamless handoff to production and long-term production scaling.
• Metrics Tracking: Develop and measure a strong set of metrics for engineering development activities.
• Risk Management: Identify and assess potential risks and challenges in electrical design and development projects. Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans to minimize project disruptions and ensure successful outcomes.
• Support on-site work as needed.
• Support travel or off-site work as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a minimum of 9 years of experience
• Demonstrable experience in electrical engineering, with a strong focus on designing and developing electrical systems for space applications to include all facets of electronics design including high level architectural development, low level design of high speed, analog and digital printed circuit boards that will include interfacing with different communications buses.
• Extensive experience in the design of RF/analog building blocks like Low Noise amplifiers, mixers, Power Amplifier, Phase shifters, multipliers, LO distribution amplifiers, mixed-signal circuits, and mixed-signal systems such as ADC's DACs, and PLL's.
• Extensive design experience in meeting rigid EMI/EMC guidelines
• Design experience with opto-electronics background in low-noise, high gain opto-electronic circuitry, electrical amplification, and various other optical diode detection components.
• Design experience with ability to migrate from R&D to Full Scale Production within a well-regulated AS9100 (ISO 9001) environment including accurate schematic capture, BOM creation, thermal, and timing analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex electrical systems and propose effective solutions.
• Excellent management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, manage resources, and deliver results within given constraints.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring technical teams.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and present technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• An active U.S. Government Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering
• Current SSBI government clearance is preferred.

Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits
  1. Medical
  2. Dental
  3. Vision
  4. Basic life with AD&D
  5. Short term disability
  6. Long term disability
  7. Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
  8. Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including automatic company contribution)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, pregnancy, and military)
• Potential annual bonus

Geost is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Geost is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@geost.com.

Pay Transparency: The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)