Senior RF Hardware Engineering Leader

Airbus Ventures; Westminster (CO); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 266,000; Full time

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Job summary

CesiumAstro in Westminster, CO is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, RF Hardware to lead a growing team developing high-performance RF electronics for our communications systems. You will oversee architecture, design reviews, mentorship, and ensure on-time delivery from prototype to production.

This is a hands-off design role but requires deep technical guidance, building scalable processes, and ensuring DFM/DFT, quality and reliability for aerospace programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or higher.
• 9+ years of direct board-level RF hardware engineering experience, aerospace preferred.
• 2–5 years of small-team technical leadership or management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain technical integrity and engineering excellence for RF hardware development across the company.
• Establish and scale engineer-friendly RF hardware development processes (signal chain design, modeling, schematics, layouts).
• Provide technical reviews, mentorship, and engage SMEs across disciplines.
• Occasionally contribute to RF designs to close gaps on high-risk programs.
• Lead or support complex debug efforts in RF electronics.
• Ensure designs are buildable and testable at scale using DFM/DFT.

Skills

RF hardware engineering

RF board design

Mentoring engineers

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Altium

RF simulation

SystemVue

Genesys

HFSS

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

PathWave System Design

RF Synthesis

HFSS

Altium

Job description

CesiumAstro in Westminster, CO is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, RF Hardware to lead a growing team developing high-performance RF electronics for our communications systems. You will oversee architecture, design reviews, mentorship, and ensure on-time delivery from prototype to production.

This is a hands-off design role but requires deep technical guidance, building scalable processes, and ensuring DFM/DFT, quality and reliability for aerospace programs.