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Rohde & Schwarz · 2 weeks ago

Senior Strategic Planning Engineer for Aerospace and Defense Applications

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $225K/yr

10+ years exp

Rohde & Schwarz is a global technology company that develops cutting-edge technology for various sectors. They are seeking a Senior Strategic Planning Engineer to develop high-level system and measurement requirements for new measurement equipment in the aerospace and defense electronics markets, collaborating closely with R&D and strategic customers.

Cyber SecurityManufacturingTest and Measurement

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Create market analysis material that considers customer needs and the competitive environment

Develop product concepts across the entire portfolio in close collaboration with the R&D teams & product managers

Establish strategic customer relations for proofing the customer acceptance in the A&D market with a focus on the US

Strategize and execute market introductions in close collaboration with the product management team

Capture management of prioritized customer use cases and system level measurement requirements

Presenting and demonstrating technical measurement solutions to train our internal applications engineers and customers

The ability to lead a cross-functional division, marketing and field teams to optimize business growth worldwide with new product introductions serving the aerospace defense markets

Lead the customer support activities of prerelease alpha and beta instrumentation at the customer site

Lead the technical and capture management for large US government instrumentation contracts

Qualification

RF/Microwave designMeasurement equipmentRadar/EW systemsElectrical EngineeringComputer ScienceProject managementCustomer communicationMarket analysisSales experienceCross-functional collaboration

Required

Bachelors or Master Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

US Person

A minimum of 5 years in RF/Microwave hardware or software design and development experience

10 + years of experience working with RF/Microwave test equipment performing measurement and characterization of RF/MW components, sub-systems and systems

5 + years of experience in the theory of operation and testing of Radar/EW or Satellite systems is a plus

Proven RF measurement science knowledge such as phase noise, noise figure, spurious, vector signal analysis, vector signal generation, pulsed signal analysis, s-parameters, TOI, AM-AM, AM-PM, and group delay

Proven ability interfacing with multiple teams with multiple priorities

The ability to manage multiple projects at the same time

Flexibility and willingness to travel to Munich Germany to work with engineering and product management teams located around the world. Ability to travel regularly ~ 30% of the time to both European and U.S. locations

Ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external customers in a multinational environment

Experienced in customer facing and sales situations to present alternate solutions and carefully manage customer expectations

In order to be considered, candidates must be US citizens