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Director of RF Hardware Engineering at AnySignal | LAYIQ

Lead the RF engineering team — hardware engineers, senior ICs, and the leads beneath you — across concurrent radio programs.
Own delivery: scope, schedule, resourcing, and prioritization, with a clear-eyed read of what the team can actually commit to and the willingness to say so early.
Be the technical decision-maker for RF hardware below the VP: arbitrate architecture and implementation trades, settle disputes, and hold the design bar in review.
Own the health of the design review, verification, and documentation process — enough rigor for hardware that has to work on orbit, without turning the team into a paperwork shop.
Partner across the stack with FPGA and DSP, embedded software, mechanical and thermal, manufacturing, test, and supply chain so RF decisions land well outside RF.
Own hiring, leveling, performance, and career development for the team; build the bench and keep your best people.
Represent RF engineering technically with customers, primes, and partners, including in government program contexts.
Drive the transition from heroics to repeatability as we scale — NPI discipline, test infrastructure, and design reuse across products.
Required Skills
10+ years in RF or hardware engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams
Direct experience managing senior individual contributors and other leads or managers, and a track record of retaining them.
Deep personal RF background: you have designed RF hardware yourself and can hold your own in a detailed design review on noise figure, linearity, frequency planning, and layout.
Demonstrated leadership in demanding hardware environments — space, defense, or comparably high-consequence programs with real delivery pressure and real consequences for being wrong.
Breadth across hardware beyond RF: digital and high-speed design, power, FPGA interfaces, mechanical and thermal constraints, and manufacturability.
A record of hiring senior engineers successfully and of raising a team's technical standard, not just its headcount.
Judgment about when to decide, when to delegate, and when to escalate — without becoming the bottleneck.
Desired Skills
Flight hardware programs delivered under your leadership, from design through on-orbit operation.
Experience scaling an engineering team through a period of rapid growth.
Familiarity with software-defined radio architectures and modern converter-centric designs.
Experience interfacing with government customers and prime contractors on technical matters.
Background introducing process into a fast-moving team in a way the team adopted rather than resented.

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