Product Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Private medical & dental

Cycle to work scheme

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

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

Requirements

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics or a 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

Preferred

• Experience in fast-paced R&D or startup environments, with rapid prototype iteration times

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private Medical & Dental
• Cycle to work scheme

About Us

The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.

We’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.

We have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.

If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.