Senior Electrical Engineering Manager
Senior Electrical Engineering Manager
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Job Description
Company Overview:
Second Order Effects (SOE) is an engineering consulting firm that transforms uncertainty into fully functional hardware and software. We work on projects at all stages of development; we perform analysis build prototypes and take products to market. Our team solves highimpact problems across numerous industries including automotive aerospace consumer electronics industrial automation biomedical and green energy. Our designs control rocket engines manage satellite communications instrument fusion reactors and are enjoyed by consumers around the world. The only thing we wont build is weapons.
Founded in 2016 Second Order Effects has 50 employees (and counting! in offices in El Segundo California and Redmond Washington. Weve worked with >130 clients on > 300 projects as a partner on retainer or on demand.
How do we do this We empower others build the right thing lead with curiosity and own the outcome. Learn more at soeffects!
Team Overview:
Our Redmond WA engineering team is at the forefront of innovation bringing together electrical and embedded systems engineers to tackle cuttingedge challenges across multiple industries delivering tightly coupled electronic and electromechanical systems to our customers. SOE is typically involved from initial concept development through architecture resulting in prototypes or lowvolume production.
In addition to collaborating with SOEs broader engineering organization to deliver impactful solutions the Redmond team plays a pivotal role in developing and championing best practices for electrical and firmware engineering processes companywide. This leadership drives excellence across practices and processes for developing analog circuitry mixedsignal design embedded systems and power electronics ensuring that every SOE project meets the highest standards of quality and performance.
We look forward to welcoming you to our team!
Job Overview:
As a Senior Electrical Engineering Manager you are accountable for ensuring the Redmond engineering team aligns with SOEs strategic goals while meeting customer needs balancing between advocating for your team and maintaining accountability. Your strong technical background and consulting skills will ensure project scope is controlled while staying responsive to addressing customer needs.
Your responsibilities of supporting the team as a mentor and guide as a subject matter expert and as a facilitator of infrastructure and team needs will result in the effective professional development of the Redmond team. Youll collaborate with senior leadership to create a growth roadmap and develop new core competencies that contribute to SOEs longterm success.
What You Will Do:
- Shape the engineering team at SOEs Redmond office by owning their engineering decisions output and outcomes
- Ensure the success of projects in multiple industries through driving technical discussions with customers and accurately capturing scope change
- Manage mentor and support the Redmond engineering team helping them develop business and personal goals build their skills and advance professionally
- Set clear expectations for the team and effectively resource members to projects and efforts
- Strategically develop and invest in infrastructure to enable engineering team growth
- Partner with Business Development (BD) to identify new opportunities and scope new business
- Collaborate with senior leadership to set companywide engineering strategies
What You Will Need:
- Bachelors degree (Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Physics Systems Engineering or related field)
- 10 years in an electrical engineering and hardware development role for aerospace industrial automation and/or robotics especially for tightly coupled systems
- 7 years of progressively impactful team and people management
- Previous experience in an engineering design leadership role
- Strong management capabilities; ability to identify and grow talent build a sense of community within a team and improve the output of other engineers
- Expertise with respect to endtoend electronics design from requirements generation through hardware bringup along
- Excellent communication skills; ability to synthesize and communicate technical information to nontechnical stakeholders
- Ability to recognize and manage project risk which includes controlling internally and externally driven scope creep identifying and remediating missing critical requirements and ensuring project technical challenges are sufficiently addressed by the staffing plan
What Would Be Useful:
- Mastersdegree (Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Systems Engineering Engineering Management Physics or related field)
- Experience in startup tech or consulting environments managing multiple responsibilities simultaneously
- Experience with client interaction for a complex technical product or service
- Ability to navigate ambiguous situations and deliver difficult information to senior leadership employees and clients
Benefits:
- Compensation range of $186520$227150 equity incentive plan
- Flexible work hours and work from home policy
- 100 employerpaid health insurance (Medical Dental Vision) for employees 50 dependent coverage
- Unlimited paid time off policy 11x paid company holidays 12x paid sick days
- 401(k) retirement account and employer matching (Safe Harbor 4
- Generous paid parental leave
- Relocation assistance available if 50 miles away from the office
- Daily catered lunches snacks and accessible kitchen
Additional Requirements:
- Applicant must be willing to work 40 hours a week onsite in Redmond Washington USA
- Applicant must be eligible to work on export controlled projects
- Job Type: Fulltime (Salary)
Export Control Requirements:
- To conform with U.S. Government export control regulations including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) you must be a U.S. citizen lawful permanent resident of the U.S. protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)3 or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time
If you dont meet 100 of the preferred skills and experience we encourage you to still apply!
Second Order Effects is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SOE is governed on the basis of excellence and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
