Engineering Manager: Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware

EVONA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA in Austin, TX is seeking a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering digital and mixed-signal hardware for aerospace and defense systems. This player-coach role targets Senior, Staff, or Principal engineers stepping into formal people management while staying technically engaged.

You will drive architecture, measurements, and reviews across digital, RF, power, FPGA, firmware, software, and systems engineering, ensuring manufacturing readiness and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of direct digital or mixed-signal hardware experience.
• Strong hands-on schematic and PCB design experience.
• High‑speed digital/mixed‑signal board design.
• FPGA or processor‑based hardware experience.
• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, SERDES interfaces.
• Strong signal integrity and timing knowledge.
• Board bring‑up and complex hardware debugging experience.
• DFM/DFT and production‑transition experience.
• Experience leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical development of high-speed digital and mixed-signal hardware across multiple product lines.
• Drive architecture, schematic, PCB, design and technical reviews.
• Maintain engineering standards for high-speed interfaces, signal integrity, timing, and dense multilayer PCBs.
• Stay hands-on with critical designs, complex debug, board bring-up, and technical problem solving.
• Work across digital, RF, power, FPGA, firmware, software, mechanical, and systems engineering.
• Drive DFM/DFT, manufacturing transition, reliability, and production readiness.
• Establish scalable hardware development processes and design standards.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing hardware engineering team.
• Lead hiring, performance development, technical mentoring, and team growth.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, and Systems Engineering.

Skills

Schematic design

PCB design

FPGA/processor-based

High-speed signaling

DDR interfaces

PCIe interfaces

Ethernet interfaces

Signal integrity

Board bring-up

Debugging hardware

DFM/DFT

Technical leadership

Architecture reviews

Job description

EVONA in Austin, TX is seeking a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering digital and mixed-signal hardware for aerospace and defense systems. This player-coach role targets Senior, Staff, or Principal engineers stepping into formal people management while staying technically engaged.

You will drive architecture, measurements, and reviews across digital, RF, power, FPGA, firmware, software, and systems engineering, ensuring manufacturing readiness and scalable processes.