Engineering Manager, Digital & Mixed‑Signal Hardware

CesiumAstro; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 184,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plans

Job summary

CesiumAstro in Denver is seeking an Engineering Manager, Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware to lead high-speed digital electronics teams. You will provide technical ownership for board- and system-level designs, drive architecture reviews, and mentor engineers across aerospace and defense programs.

This role combines hands-on design input with team leadership, ensuring scalable, manufacturable hardware while advancing process maturity and cross‑site collaboration. Senior engineers welcomed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of direct digital or mixed-signal hardware engineering experience, aerospace preferred; 1–3 years of leadership preferred but not required.
• Deep expertise in high-speed digital and mixed-signal board design.
• Software-defined radio experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity and timing.
• Experience supporting design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and transition to production.
• Proven ability to conduct rigorous technical reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate across disciplines.
• Ability to balance architectural rigor with execution speed in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with high-speed simulation/analysis tools (SiWave, SiPro).
• Hands-on experience with Altium for schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Familiarity with FPGA toolchains (e.g. Xilinx Vivado).
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain technical integrity and engineering excellence for high-speed digital and mixed-signal electronics development across the company.
• Establish, mature, scale, and enforce engineer-friendly digital hardware development processes and standards.
• Lead architecture/design reviews with SME engagement across disciplines.
• Apply knowledge of adjacent disciplines to ensure board- and system-level success.
• Contribute directly to board-level designs as needed on high-risk programs.
• Lead or support complex debugging of high-speed interfaces and FPGA implementations.
• Ensure designs are buildable and testable at scale using DFM/DFT.
• Drive handoff from engineering to manufacturing with supply chain and production test teams.
• Ensure designs meet aerospace quality, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Partner with Supply Chain on component availability and lifecycle risk.
• Drive design reuse and modular architectures across product lines.

Skills

High-speed digital design

Mixed-signal hardware

Signal integrity

DFM/DFT

Schematic capture

PCB layout

FPGA toolchains

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Education

Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (Bachelors+)

Tools

Altium

Xilinx Vivado

Ansys SiWave / ADS SiPro

Job description

CesiumAstro in Denver is seeking an Engineering Manager, Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware to lead high-speed digital electronics teams. You will provide technical ownership for board- and system-level designs, drive architecture reviews, and mentor engineers across aerospace and defense programs.

This role combines hands-on design input with team leadership, ensuring scalable, manufacturable hardware while advancing process maturity and cross‑site collaboration. Senior engineers welcomed.