Project Design Engineer
Teleflex
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead a team of senior or staff multidisciplinary engineers responsible for ensuring satellites are manufacturable, testable, and production-ready at scale.
- Act as the key link between engineering and production throughout the full satellite lifecycle, from early design and technical reviews through integration, test, and delivery.
- Drive both the technical direction and operational effectiveness of the AIT Engineering team.
- Lead work across major satellite domains including power, payload, avionics, software-hardware interface, communications, and system-level verification.
- Represent AIT Engineering across projects and disciplines and interface with designers, production leads, and executive stakeholders.
- Guide the team through new satellite designs, production ramp-up, and mission-critical troubleshooting.
- Apply system-level understanding and hands-on spacecraft development or testing experience to ensure mission success.
- Support production, resolve issues, and drive feedback into continuous product and process improvements.
- Contribute to building high-reliability hardware at scale.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in the development, integration, testing, or production of complex hardware systems (e.g., aerospace, automotive, defense, semiconductors, satellites), preferably with full-lifecycle ownership from design to deployment.
- Proven leadership in multidisciplinary engineering environments, with experience mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration.
- Deep technical knowledge in at least one engineering discipline (e.g., electronics, mechanical, systems, software), with system-level understanding across full product or system architectures.
- Familiarity with integration, verification, production ramp-up, and configuration management processes in complex hardware industries.
- A systems engineering mindset, able to spot issues across interfaces, anticipate integration risks, and connect the dots between design, production, and operations.
- Experience supporting technical and production readiness reviews (e.g., PDR, CDR, PRR or equivalent) and translating design decisions into manufacturable, testable solutions.
- Strong track record of enabling design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-for-testability (DFT) in high-reliability environments.
- Clear communication skills and confidence interfacing with designers, production leads, and executive stakeholders.
- Hands-on, proactive approach to problem-solving, including root cause analysis and implementing feedback loops into design and processes.
- A continuous improvement mindset, driving toward higher levels of reliability, repeatability, and operational efficiency as production volumes increase.
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required).
