Staff FPGA Operations Project Engineer
CesiumAstro
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- Pay
- $165K to $199K
- a year
- Location
- El Segundo, CA
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 27
- 1 day ago
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About the company
CesiumAstro
Defense & space · 201 to 500 employees
At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.
What you'll do
- Establish project plans, schedules, resource requirements, and execution strategies supporting complex engineering operations initiatives.
- Define project engineering approaches by evaluating workflow requirements, engineering priorities, schedules, risks, and resource constraints.
- Lead coordination of operational deliverables, process improvements, cross-functional activities, and project reviews.
- Lead the development and implementation of engineering workflows, tool integrations, infrastructure coordination and process documentation.
- Evaluate engineering data, technical documentation, workflow metrics, and team feedback while directing solutions that improve engineering effectiveness.
- Validate process changes, corrective actions, risk mitigation activities, and operational deliverables supporting technical and business objectives.
- Serve as the engineering operations project lead by coordinating engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, program management, and operations teams.
- Develop project plans, technical reports, process documentation, status updates, and performance metrics supporting operational decisions.
- Support design reviews, process reviews, technical reviews, engineering investigations, customer meetings, product development activities, onboarding, training and process improvement activities by providing project engineering and operations guidance.
- Establish engineering operations best practices, planning methodologies, repeatable execution processes, and performance measures across FPGA development.
- Evaluate project management methods, engineering workflows, resource planning, and execution strategies to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Drive initiatives that enhance project execution, technical coordination, schedule performance, communication, engineering workflows, tool adoption, and engineering effectiveness.
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field with 8–12 years of experience, Master's degree with 6–8 years, or PhD with 3–5 years of experience in project engineering, systems engineering, product development, program execution, or a related discipline, including electrical, computer, aerospace, software, industrial, mechanical, manufacturing, biomedical, human factors, or systems engineering; engineering management, information systems, operations research, applied mathematics, or data analytics.
- In-depth knowledge of engineering principles, development workflows, and project engineering methodologies.
- Advanced understanding of project planning, scheduling, technical coordination, engineering change processes, risk management, product lifecycle management (PLM), process improvement and change management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of engineering documentation, workflow design, process implementation, tool integration, project controls, and systems integration.
- Knowledge of cross-functional engineering collaboration, quality systems, user requirements, and engineering operations.
- Strong understanding of technical leadership, engineering lifecycle management, and organizational project management practices.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
- Project management and scheduling software, e.g. Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or equivalent applications.
- Engineering documentation and collaboration tools, e.g., GitLab, Jama, Jira, Confluence or equivalent applications
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Please Note: To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.