Avionics Product Manager - Roadmap & Deployment

Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

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Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking a product leader to own the avionics and mission systems roadmap, translating complex requirements into clear specifications and driving development from concept to deployment. You will balance performance, cost and schedule while guiding architecture decisions across hardware and embedded systems to deliver decisive operational advantages.

You will collaborate with engineering and customers in a fast-paced defence tech context, enabling rapid iteration and meeting

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics or related discipline.
• Experience delivering complex aerospace, defence, autonomous systems, robotics, space or high-performance technology products.
• Strong understanding of avionics, aerospace electronics or mission-critical hardware systems.
• Experience with analogue, digital and mixed-signal electronic systems.
• Understanding of embedded systems, real-time processing, sensors, communications, RF systems or mission systems architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap and strategy for avionics and mission systems across the product portfolio.
• Translate operational, customer and engineering requirements into clear product specifications.
• Drive product development from concept through testing, qualification and deployment.
• Lead performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability and technical trade-off decisions.
• Define and manage product requirements, priorities, risks and success metrics.
• Support architecture reviews and key technical decisions across avionics hardware, embedded systems and mission-critical technologies.
• Ensure products deliver operational advantage while meeting performance, reliability, SWaP-C and cost objectives.

Skills

Product roadmap

Requirements translation

Systems thinking

Education

Electronic Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Systems Engineering

Physics

Job description

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking a product leader to own the avionics and mission systems roadmap, translating complex requirements into clear specifications and driving development from concept to deployment. You will balance performance, cost and schedule while guiding architecture decisions across hardware and embedded systems to deliver decisive operational advantages.

You will collaborate with engineering and customers in a fast-paced defence tech context, enabling rapid iteration and meeting