Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) develops and builds systems for communications and RF sensing. Within EM&C, RADLAB is our radar capability area. RADLAB is a small team building novel capabilities from the ground up, taking ideas from physics and math through simulation, prototype, and test.
Reporting to the Head, EM&C, the H/ASIG, is responsible for leading, coaching, mentoring, and guiding a forward leaning, Radio Frequency (RF) focused engineering team in the development of its specialized products and support to the larger Metrea enterprise. The H/ASIG will focus upon key strategic goals while simultaneously tracking and reporting technical developmental progress to Metrea Aerospace Management (MAM) executive leadership. The H/ASIG must possess a strong knowledge and experience working with RF systems supporting all-domain operations and shall possess organizational design and leadership experience in RF products and its customers, which extends to the establishment of company policies and culture. An understanding of enterprise agility and its application to the organization is a must.
In addition to inward facing execution, H/ASIG will meet with external customers and partners to further Metrea’s success. Frequent travel and face-to-face business development may be required. The H/ASIG must maintain relationships across all of Metrea and often engage in “solutioning” and the co-development of full-stack capabilities for the greater enterprise. As a member of the senior management team, the H/ASIG must have leadership and managerial responsibilities that demand clear communication and presentation skills, as well as the ability to develop trusting relationships with senior and junior teammates across the enterprise. This position provides the opportunity to grow business knowledge in a dynamic, ever-evolving aerospace company.
- Developing the Metrea Capability (“ΟΝ”)
- Process, Systems & Frameworks Development: Lead the design, development, and management of ASIG and coordinate with RADARLAB and FRANCISLAB with particular focus on the implementation of effective, efficient, and scalable technologies and processes that assist in execution of mission support.
- Develop the necessary technological and engineering frameworks and models, and in partnership across Metrea Aerospace, acquire and implement systems and engineering methodologies that will best facilitate process automation and decision support from tactical to strategic levels across the group.
- People Development: Identify areas of growth in ASIG’s knowledge, skillsets, and attitudes, and develop a systematic approach to professional development and talent acquisition in order to build a high-performing team embedded systems engineering team.
- Technology Development: Identify areas of the technology roadmap framework across Metrea.
- TEAMMATE RESPONSIBILITIES: Providing Support Capacity across Metrea (“IN”)
- Strategy BCA: Support Strategy (STRAT) to inform enterprise strategy with key ASIG and Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) considerations and remain an active participant on all major enterprise technical decisions, to include the commencement of new communications systems and payloads lines or the cessation of extant ones, the acquisition or disposal of key assets, and all investment decisions for all kinds of assets (hardware, software, technologies, IP, businesses, etc.).
- Work closely with the STRAT/Investment team to support potential investment assessments, where these involve strategic acquisitions. Support the STRAT/Research team in areas of research requiring radio frequency (RF) and other technical related subject matter experts (SMEs). Direct the research team to conduct supporting research for ASIG and EM&C-related projects or interests as applicable.
- Operations: Work closely with the ASIG and EM&C Leadership Teams to inform the design, implementation, and further development of Metrea’s technical methodologies.
- Legal: Provide LEG/Compliance with ASIG inputs that are required to perform all necessary compliance functions and ensure that Metrea’s compliance policies cover all known requirements as required.
- Work closely with LEG/Contracts to ensure that contract structuring & economics supports ASIG objectives and customer requirements.
- Market Engagement Support: Support market engagement efforts where required, where your subject matter expertise, customer knowledge or intimacy may help Metrea mitigate any known risk and progress its prospects. Enhance ASIG, EM&C and Metrea’s Market Engagement efforts by supplementing Strategy’s cueing and tasking of our Market Engagement Teams (METs) by directly engaging with enabling or decisive stakeholders. Represent the company, as required, in external fora or venues.
- Risk Management Support: Actively participate in reviewing and understanding ASIG and EM&C’s operational and risk exposure (ROEX) to target and shape internal programs and future acquisitions which positively contribute to an appropriate and balanced overall exposure. Actively contribute to program risk exposure assessment and management by contributing with your unique perspective and experience around market, and particularly customer-related risks, such as those emanating from the requirements, technology, market trends, contracting, funding, and other related layers and sub-layers.
- Must be able to interface with mid-level to senior external/internal customers and have excellent presentation skills.
- Must be able and willing to operate against deadlines with accuracy and a strong attention to detail.
- Must be results-oriented and demonstrate strategic thinking, innovation, flexibility in dealing with changing and ambiguous situations.
- Contribute to comprehensive technology roadmaps and payload development, to include, capabilities, solutions, time, costs, financial analysis in support of proposal development or departmental budgeting & forecasting.
- Must be able to work with confidential data, which if disclosed, might have significant internal and external impact on the organization.
- Moderate Microsoft Office skills, to include a high level of proficiency in Excel.
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Required Education, Experience and Certificates
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in technical field or 20+ years of experience in RF engineering related to signals intelligence, electronic warfare, RF, technical report writing, technical project planning, and communication systems and related manufacturing.
- Computer Skills: strong understanding in Microsoft Office Suite Programs; Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Preferred Education, Experience and Certificates
Experience: Strong leadership ability and the ability to report financials, experience with the development and architecture of RF and communication solutions, familiarity with establishing project plans and budgets, experience leading large teams, ability to align business and technical roadmaps, and a passion for SI, RF, and communication solutions.
- Experience within the aerospace, defense, security and/or government contracting space in a leadership role managing several programs and/or projects simultaneously.
- Experience in leading engineering efforts related to software, hardware, and software defined radio (SDR) and unique capabilities.
- Expert is capturing customer requirements and assisting in the development of statements of work (SOW), associated project plans and technical roadmaps, plans of action and milestones, and customer interactions.
- Advanced understanding of the policies, processes, priorities, and organization of the US Government in general, and the Department of Defense in particular, around national security matters.
- Expert knowledge of the human terrain around the US Government’s SI, RF, and communications-based ISR community, coupled with extensive personal contacts and a proven ability to generate high-impact networks.
- Moderate understanding items and actions related to payload development and solutions in the field of signals intelligence, electronic warfare, communications, defense, and aerospace.
- Expert at interacting with industry, scientific, technology, military, policy, and finance communities and utilized knowledge gained to support the development of technical roadmaps and solutions.
- Expert at communicating effectively across cultures, regions and industries, and experience in working in diverse international environments. Experience managing people with measurable performance.
- Flexibility to travel frequently and on short notice, both domestic and internationally.
- Highly developed sense of judgement and maturity.
- Intellectually curious, with strong critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to learn new environments and pick up new subjects quickly.
- Ability to obtain and filter information and identify key issues relevant to the achievement of long-term strategic goals.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and problem-solve.
- Strong organizational skills, discipline, with a high sense of reliability, discretion, and confidentiality.
- Proven ability to work effectively in, and leverage a highly collaborative, matrixed environment to achieve project ends.
- Ability to prioritize judiciously and blend flexibility with disciplined execution, to manage competing demands.
- Capacity to balance strategic vs. operational mind-sets and results vs. process orientation. Strongly orientated towards performance with solid and consistent ethical compass.
- Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.
- Comprehensive medical plan options
- HSA/FSA accounts
- Dental and vision coverage
- 6% employer 401(k) match
- Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Generous PTO
- Life and disability insurance
- Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
- AD&D Coverage
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements.
Metrea Advanced Signals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.
This job operates in an office setting
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Base Pay Range
The compensation range shown below is a good faith estimate and reflects the expected base pay for this position upon hire. This is just one component of Metrea's overall approach to total rewards and final compensation decisions, including the ultimate salary or hourly rate agreed upon, may vary depending on factors such as job location, job-specific knowledge, skills, experience, and the overall negotiated compensation package. Eligible full-time employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package designed to support their health, wellbeing, and long-term success.
Pay Range
$185,000—$200,000 USD
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
