Principal Engineer - Radar Capabilities (Product Manager)

Our company exists to promote and protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We specialize in small, lightweight, high-performance multi-mode radar systems for both unmanned and manned aircraft. From defining new markets to designing, building, training, and field support, we cover the entire product life cycle. Our goal is to make advanced radar technology more accessible.

The Role

We are expanding our product management capabilities and are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to serve as our Cross-Product Capabilities Product Manager (PdM). In this hybrid, highly collaborative role, you will report to the VP of Engineering and embed with our Product Management team to help shape and maintain the strategic roadmap for our core radar modes (SAR, MTI, APNT, etc.) across all hardware platforms.

You will provide key strategic inputs to our investment processes, working side-by-side with Engineering Leadership to bridge operational needs with engineering execution. Your primary focus will be ensuring that we are fundamentally designing the right capabilities rather than just designing capabilities right, aligning our roadmaps with true customer needs and high-ROI business opportunities.

A critical component of this role involves leveraging your technical expertise to collaboratively shape future development contracts. You will work closely with our Business Development team and government research partners to expand joint R&D efforts and secure funded engineering services.

In addition to skills and experience, we're after someone who is a healthy fit; someone who aligns with our company core values and is a team player. These are our values, and they define how we behave and how you can succeed with our company:

• All in - We're all in the same boat.
• Stand up - We stand accountable with integrity.
• Can-do - We innovate with a can-do attitude.

Key Responsibilities:

• Capability Roadmap Shaping: Collaboratively develop, prioritize, and maintain the mid- and long-term product roadmap for all We radar capabilities (Machine Learning, MTI, and SAR), providing key input to ensure major technical investments are driven by validated customer needs and yield high ROI.
• Funded Development & Partnerships: Partner with Business Development to shape, propose, and secure funded engineering services and collaborative R&D contracts with government research organizations.
• Cross-Product Alignment: Collaborate with hardware-specific Product Managers and Engineering Directors to ensure capability parity and the smooth integration of new radar modes across our entire product line.
• End-User Advocacy: Analyze operational requirements and champion the end-user's perspective alongside the engineering teams to ensure our capabilities solve concrete tactical problems and deliver outsized value in the field.
• Principal Technical Stakeholder: Act as an objective, collaborative architectural stakeholder during Engineering Design Reviews. You will partner with executing teams to ensure new capability designs are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with company standards.
• Technical Mentorship: Leverage your domain expertise to organically mentor other product managers and algorithm engineers during embedded initiatives, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years' experience with radar algorithms, signal processing, and/or machine learning.
• Deep expertise in SAR algorithms, GMTI systems, and radar performance modeling.
• Experience writing proposals, providing ROMs, and collaboratively shaping development efforts (e.g., BAAs, SBIRs, CRADAs) with government customers.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable, high-ROI product strategies in a team-based environment.
• MS or PhD in an Engineering related field.
• US citizen and eligible for a US Government security clearance.
• Able to work at our facility in Springville, Utah or work effectively remotely with regular travel to our Springville facility.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

We take care of our team, offering:

• Competitive salary and bonus.
• Work-life balance and flexible schedules.
• 401(k) match and employer HSA contributions.
• Excellent benefits-Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• 100% company-paid Short & Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) + 11 holidays, including a full break between Christmas & New Year's.

We believe this is a great place to work, and we'd love for you to be part of our team!

How to Apply:

Check out our website to learn more about what we do. If this opportunity excites you, apply through our careers page by sending your resume and an informal cover letter-tell us what you're passionate about and what excites you most about this role.

We look forward to hearing from you!

All applicants must be either a US citizen or permanent resident with a valid residency (green) card per FAR 22 C.F.R. 120.15.

We are committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in all human resources actions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or national origin. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, especially those from historically underrepresented groups. PWDNET