Director, Solutions/Conceptual Design

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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.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Communication Systems Architects responsible for defining complete technical solutions for customer opportunities and strategic pursuits.

- Ensure each pursuit has a clearly identified technical architect accountable for the end-to-end solution from customer need and CONOPS through architecture, requirements, proposal, and transition to execution.

- Partner with customers and Business Development to understand mission objectives, operational needs, CONOPS, performance requirements, and constraints and translate them into differentiated system solutions.

- Lead and review architecture-level trades across antennas, RF, digital processing, communications algorithms, firmware, software, networking, and system interfaces to optimize overall mission performance.

- Partner with Business Development and Product leadership to assess opportunities, support pursue/no-pursue decisions, identify technical discriminators, and establish the technical strategy required to win.

- Ensure proposed architectures, requirements, technical approaches, performance analyses, risks, assumptions, and development strategies form a credible and compelling technical solution.

- Drive development of system requirements, interfaces, performance allocations, CONOPS, architecture definitions, verification approaches, and key analyses necessary to establish a technically sound baseline.

- Identify recurring customer needs and architectural capabilities that should influence product roadmaps, technology investments, and future product development. Drive reuse of existing and in-development products where they provide the best system solution.

- Ensure architectures appropriately balance performance and differentiation with technical maturity, cost, schedule, risk, manufacturability, and the company’s ability to execute.

- Work closely with Product Development & Assurance to translate technical architectures into executable program plans, including scope, requirements, development activities, Make/Buy decisions, risks, assumptions, cost, and schedule.

- Ensure technical solutions are transitioned cleanly from pursuit into the engineering and program execution organizations with clear requirements, architecture, interfaces, key trades, risks, assumptions, and customer commitments.

- Establish architecture standards, technical review practices, analysis methods, and decision frameworks that drive consistency and technical excellence across pursuits.

- Mentor architects and senior technical leaders to develop both deep technical expertise and the system-level breadth, customer engagement skills, and business judgment required to own complete solutions.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related technical field with 11–15 years of related experience, Master's degree in a related field with 9–12 years of related experience, or PhD in a related field with