Umbra is looking for a Digital Design Engineering Manager to lead a team in developing and delivering embedded flight software for Umbra missions, specifically focusing on creating cutting-edge HDL-based digital designs for next-generation space radar systems.
Requirements
- Knowledge of foundational electrical engineering, computer architecture and digital design concepts.
- 5+ years of proven, relevant experience in digital design with FPGA and SoC devices.
- Development experience with Xilinx devices and design suite, such as Vivado, SDK and Vitis.
- Expertise in VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Experience developing MCU and SoC software in Rust or C/C++.
- Working knowledge of modern FPGA architectures and external interfaces, including high speed converters, DDR RAM, and Solid-State NAND and NOR based storage.
- Familiarity with standard physical layers for digital communication (UART, SPI, LVDS).
Responsibilities
- 40% people management of a team of 4-5 software engineers, and 60% "hands on" technical leadership of that team to develop FPGA-based digital designs for radar, electronic warfare, and communications.
- Work with electrical and systems engineers to integrate Xilinx SoC based hardware with high-speed data converters and associated microwave transmitter and receiver chains.
- Continuously collaborate with the payload engineering team to address mechanical, thermal and power subsystems and interfaces.
- Rapidly develop prototypes and iteratively improve hardware and firmware.
- Prepare engineering documentation, reports, and test plans.
- Perform other professional duties as assigned.
Other
- 2+ years of people management of a team of digital design engineers, including capacity planning, hiring, feedback, coaching, mentoring, performance reviews, and performance management.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment.
- This position is based on-site in our Santa Barbara, CA office.
- TS/SCI security clearance, read-in within the past two years, or willingness to acquire one.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee or asylee as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), or must otherwise be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or U.S. Department of Commerce as applicable.
