Director of Engineering, RF Applications - Rolling Meadows, IL

Company Background

Epiq Solutions develops cutting-edge software-defined radio (SDR) products and processing solutions to enable spectrum dominance for maritime, land, air, and space domains. With 17 years serving government and commercial enterprise customers and 30K+ devices fielded to more than 500 customers, Epiq Solutions is a trusted partner with a proven heritage of delivering open architecture products in radically small form factors where time-to-market, cost, and performance are critical for mission success.

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Introduction

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Director of Engineering to lead our RF Applications team, focused on building government-aligned RF software applications and complete RF solutions. The ideal candidate is an accomplished engineering leader with a proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing organizations through growth, change, and increasing complexity. Success in this role requires exceptional people leadership, organizational leadership, stakeholder management, and a drive for organization and business growth, combined with sufficient technical depth to guide engineering strategy and decision-making. Our team culture strikes a balance of high performance and high integrity, while remaining humble and pragmatic, and we seek an engineering leader who thrives in this environment. The candidate must be data-driven, well-organized, and motivated to help their team thrive, execute, and grow.

Job Responsibilities

Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

• Establish and communicate a clear vision, priorities, and operating principles for the RF Applications engineering organization.
• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team through coaching, feedback, accountability, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and professional development.
• Lead organizational change initiatives while maintaining team engagement, alignment, and productivity.
• Establish clear performance expectations and proactively address performance, accountability, and development opportunities.
• Drive employee engagement, retention, and leadership development across the RF Applications engineering organization.
• Serve as a trusted partner to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Monitor and improve organizational health through employee engagement, talent development, retention, and effective leadership practices.
• Develop an onboarding and mentorship program to enable new employees to rapidly integrate and contribute to Epiq’s success.

Engineering Strategy, Execution & Delivery

• Lead and develop a team of engineering managers and engineers across multiple disciplines, ensuring organizational effectiveness, leadership accountability, talent development, and successful execution of engineering objectives.
• Work closely with our product management team to ensure there is alignment between our product roadmap priorities and the engineering execution within our project teams.
• Experience engaging with customers to understand requirements, communicate technical solutions, and support business growth.
• Partner with Product Management, Project Management , Operations, Sales, and Executive Leadership to align priorities, communicate tradeoffs, and ensure successful execution of business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance to the RF Applications engineering team, contributing to architecture, technology strategy, customer engagements, and proposal efforts as appropriate.
• Establish relationships with engineering leaders across all Epiq locations and drive successful execution of cross site projects.
• Collaborate with the Director of Engineering – SDR to establish, align, and implement engineering standards, policies, and procedures that drive quality, consistency and compliance across the engineering organization.
• Coach and develop engineering managers and technical leaders through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development planning.
• Participate in our engineering recruiting and hiring efforts, working closely with HR and engineering functional managers.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the engineering team.