Millennium Space Systems, Inc.
Spacecraft Avionics Engineering Manager
Millennium Space Systems, Inc., El Segundo, California, United States, 90245
Company Overview
Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company delivers affordable, high-performance space systems for exacting customers. At Millennium, you will be part of a close-knit team working on exciting technological problems. We work in an open environment where ideas are shared across all disciplines, and there are ample opportunities for advancement based on excellence. Superstars are welcome.
At Millennium, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and innovative, with great opportunities for professional growth. Find your future with us.
Job Summary As the Avionics Engineering Team Manager, you lead the Embedded Design & Analysis team and act as the primary technical leader enabling responsible engineers to make sound design decisions while navigating budget, schedule, and resource constraints.
This position’s internal job code is EE Engineering Manager. Our team is currently hiring for level K.
Responsibilities You lead and staff the Embedded Design and Analysis team responsible for developing internally manufactured avionics such as flight computers, payload interfaces, and power switching hardware. Cross-team alignment is central to the role as you define and improve the engineering processes your team relies on and help them navigate organizational resources. You ensure that technical solutions, budget inputs, and schedule expectations remain grounded and aligned with program needs as hardware moves through the development workflow. When challenges arise, your experience and mentorship strengthen the team’s ability to reduce risk, make sound decisions, and deliver hardware under real-world constraints. Drawing on your broad, cross-disciplinary understanding of avionics development, you help shape next-generation products and architectures.
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
Own the engineering processes that define how avionics is designed, built, reviewed, and released; maintain clear, updated documentation and AS9100-aligned standards.
Set and uphold the technical quality bar for requirements, design scope, design reviews, and risk reduction.
Build the tools, templates, and metrics needed for scalable avionics development, including cost and schedule inputs.
Lead, mentor, and grow the team through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, and program staffing.
Recruit, interview, and hire exceptional engineers who strengthen the team’s capability and culture.
Cross-Functional Execution
Coordinate across engineering, programs, manufacturing, and supporting teams to resolve technical issues and close discrepancies.
Identify technical and program risks early, drive mitigation strategies, and ensure clear communication across stakeholders.
Strategic Contribution
Contribute to spacecraft and avionics architecture strategy, including proposal support when required.
Minimum Qualifications
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or related field.
5–10 years of experience in engineering for space systems.
Experience growing, leading and managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
Expertise with circuit simulation (LTSpice or equivalent), signal integrity tools (Hyperlynx or equivalent), schematic capture, and PCB layout (Altium or equivalent).
Strong experience with all manner of prototyping and bring-up using benchtop test equipment in a development lab environment.
Knowledge of MIL-461, SMC-S-016, EEE-INST-002, and IPC class ratings.
Extensive experience budgeting, scheduling and executing board and box level design campaigns.
Proficiency with data analysis and modeling tools (Python, MATLAB, or equivalent).
Excellent communication skills, with ability to clearly convey design, development and qualification test risks.
Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years experience in space-related and avionics hardware roles
M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
Experience with FPGA development (VHDL or Verilog).
Previous startup or small-team experience with demonstrated ability to establish processes and thrive in ambiguity.
Experience with Linux, embedded software, board support packages (BSP), and C/C++.
Familiarity with spacecraft charging effects and material/electronic susceptibility.
Customer-facing experience presenting at design reviews or technical forums.
Experience with anomaly resolution, documentation, and lessons-learned processes.
Experience with risk management, configuration management, or change control.
Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both experts and non-experts.
Active U.S. Government security clearance (preferred, not required).
Summary Pay-Range
Level K: $147,050 - $216,250
Before applying Millennium is DDTC-registered, ITAR-compliant Company. This position is located at a facility that requires special access. Applicants MUST be U.S. citizens and eligible for a security clearance. Additionally, applicants must be willing to apply for and maintain a security clearance. We encourage all interested candidates to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified.
Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. As set forth in Millennium Space Systems’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to VEVRAA, we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:
A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran’s discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
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At Millennium, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and innovative, with great opportunities for professional growth. Find your future with us.
Job Summary As the Avionics Engineering Team Manager, you lead the Embedded Design & Analysis team and act as the primary technical leader enabling responsible engineers to make sound design decisions while navigating budget, schedule, and resource constraints.
This position’s internal job code is EE Engineering Manager. Our team is currently hiring for level K.
Responsibilities You lead and staff the Embedded Design and Analysis team responsible for developing internally manufactured avionics such as flight computers, payload interfaces, and power switching hardware. Cross-team alignment is central to the role as you define and improve the engineering processes your team relies on and help them navigate organizational resources. You ensure that technical solutions, budget inputs, and schedule expectations remain grounded and aligned with program needs as hardware moves through the development workflow. When challenges arise, your experience and mentorship strengthen the team’s ability to reduce risk, make sound decisions, and deliver hardware under real-world constraints. Drawing on your broad, cross-disciplinary understanding of avionics development, you help shape next-generation products and architectures.
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
Own the engineering processes that define how avionics is designed, built, reviewed, and released; maintain clear, updated documentation and AS9100-aligned standards.
Set and uphold the technical quality bar for requirements, design scope, design reviews, and risk reduction.
Build the tools, templates, and metrics needed for scalable avionics development, including cost and schedule inputs.
Lead, mentor, and grow the team through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, and program staffing.
Recruit, interview, and hire exceptional engineers who strengthen the team’s capability and culture.
Cross-Functional Execution
Coordinate across engineering, programs, manufacturing, and supporting teams to resolve technical issues and close discrepancies.
Identify technical and program risks early, drive mitigation strategies, and ensure clear communication across stakeholders.
Strategic Contribution
Contribute to spacecraft and avionics architecture strategy, including proposal support when required.
Minimum Qualifications
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or related field.
5–10 years of experience in engineering for space systems.
Experience growing, leading and managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
Expertise with circuit simulation (LTSpice or equivalent), signal integrity tools (Hyperlynx or equivalent), schematic capture, and PCB layout (Altium or equivalent).
Strong experience with all manner of prototyping and bring-up using benchtop test equipment in a development lab environment.
Knowledge of MIL-461, SMC-S-016, EEE-INST-002, and IPC class ratings.
Extensive experience budgeting, scheduling and executing board and box level design campaigns.
Proficiency with data analysis and modeling tools (Python, MATLAB, or equivalent).
Excellent communication skills, with ability to clearly convey design, development and qualification test risks.
Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years experience in space-related and avionics hardware roles
M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
Experience with FPGA development (VHDL or Verilog).
Previous startup or small-team experience with demonstrated ability to establish processes and thrive in ambiguity.
Experience with Linux, embedded software, board support packages (BSP), and C/C++.
Familiarity with spacecraft charging effects and material/electronic susceptibility.
Customer-facing experience presenting at design reviews or technical forums.
Experience with anomaly resolution, documentation, and lessons-learned processes.
Experience with risk management, configuration management, or change control.
Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both experts and non-experts.
Active U.S. Government security clearance (preferred, not required).
Summary Pay-Range
Level K: $147,050 - $216,250
Before applying Millennium is DDTC-registered, ITAR-compliant Company. This position is located at a facility that requires special access. Applicants MUST be U.S. citizens and eligible for a security clearance. Additionally, applicants must be willing to apply for and maintain a security clearance. We encourage all interested candidates to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified.
Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. As set forth in Millennium Space Systems’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to VEVRAA, we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:
A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran’s discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
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