Radar Hardware Project Manager — Remote

LeoLabs, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

LeoLabs, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Project Manager for Radar Hardware to drive execution across complex hardware development and production projects. You’ll collaborate with Mechanical, RF and Electrical, Manufacturing, and supply chain teams to translate goals into schedules, ownership, and clear plans.

The role requires hands-on governance from requirements through procurement, build, test, deployment, and sustainment. Based in the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience managing technical projects in hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, industrial systems, or other complex engineering environments.
• Experience driving hardware projects through design, procurement, build, test, and delivery.
• Strong understanding of hardware development lifecycles, including requirements, design reviews, release processes, manufacturing readiness, integration, and verification.
• Proven ability to manage schedules, risks, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Drive project execution for radar hardware design, manufacturing, integration, test, and deployment activities.
• Translate contract, program, and engineering needs into clear hardware milestones, deliverables, schedules, and owners.
• Develop and maintain integrated hardware project schedules across design release, procurement, manufacturing, test, and deployment.
• Track hardware deliverables, risks, dependencies, decisions, and action items across multiple active projects.
• Work with technical leads to assess level of effort, resource needs, schedule constraints, and execution priorities.
• Coordinate execution across Mechanical Engineering, RF & Electrical Engineering, and Manufacturing.
• Support design reviews, manufacturing readiness reviews, build readiness reviews, and major project checkpoints.
• Maintain project tracking workflows in Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project, or equivalent systems.
• Provide clear status reporting to hardware leadership on schedule health, risks, staffing needs, and execution gaps.
• Help improve the team’s project planning, meeting cadence, documentation, and follow‑through.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Schedule management

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Hardware lifecycle understanding

Vendor coordination

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Job description

LeoLabs, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Project Manager for Radar Hardware to drive execution across complex hardware development and production projects. You’ll collaborate with Mechanical, RF and Electrical, Manufacturing, and supply chain teams to translate goals into schedules, ownership, and clear plans.

The role requires hands-on governance from requirements through procurement, build, test, deployment, and sustainment. Based in the U.S.