Jobs at Epirus

Leads Epirus’ marketing and communications strategy, executive messaging, external narrative, media and press relations, government and defense media relationships, events, thought leadership, and investor-relations support. Establishes measurable marketing frameworks, directs creative partners, monitors relevant news and competitor activity, and manages a small team. Partners closely with executive leadership to position the company and communicate complex defense technologies to external audiences.

Leads PCBA category sourcing and supplier management from proposal through production and contract closeout. Develops supplier strategies, negotiates pricing and terms, evaluates manufacturing capacity and quality, and conducts make-versus-buy and total-cost analyses. Partners with engineering and production teams on specifications, manufacturing readiness, capital equipment, and supplier risk mitigation. Manages spend, supplier relationships, audits, new technology transitions, and supply chain projects while mentoring team members.

Leads manufacturing technicians and manages daily production priorities, coaching, reviews, training, work instructions, equipment safety, calibration, and build validation. The role serves as a technical working lead, contributing approximately 30% of the time to electro-mechanical hardware assembly. It collaborates with engineering, procurement, continuous improvement, and leadership to improve production efficiency, maintain qualifications, and meet customer delivery goals.

Design, verify, and integrate FPGA-based embedded processing systems for RF applications. Responsibilities include developing RTL modules, bringing up custom FPGA circuit cards and peripherals, automating hardware-in-the-loop tests, operating lab measurement equipment, and documenting system architectures and design tradeoffs. The role requires FPGA and microprocessor experience, Xilinx or Intel tools, digital communication protocols, and eligibility for future U.S. security clearance.

Build and maintain UI automation infrastructure and end-to-end tests for web applications. Maintain simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and system execution environments; develop automated test run infrastructure; monitor CI/CD health; use AI tooling for testing metrics and reporting; document test coverage, reviews, releases, and validation. Collaborate cross-functionally on feature validation, issue triage, release risk, and product quality.

Lead and own technical operations of an electromagnetic test lab (anechoic chambers), mentor a small test team, execute RF/OTA/EMC measurements to aerospace/defense standards, develop Python/MATLAB automation, troubleshoot for clients, manage scheduling, asset calibration, and deliver compliance-ready reports.

The Senior Manager, Procurement will define and execute procurement strategies, optimize costs, manage suppliers, and develop procurement capabilities for scaling production in both commercial and defense supply chains.

The Principal Product Quality Engineer leads quality for new products, ensuring design assurance and reliability while collaborating across teams to enhance production readiness and compliance with quality standards.

Lead cross-functional R&D projects as scrum master and product owner under an agile framework. Create and own project plans, schedules, budgets, and risk registers; track technical feature delivery, remove impediments, run reviews, align stakeholders, and represent customer priorities throughout development.

Lead and maintain classified information systems, manage ATO lifecycle, perform continuous monitoring, build and maintain air-gapped systems, develop security policies and training, conduct risk assessments and incident response, and travel to test sites (up to 25%).

Lead and manage the company's import/export compliance program, ensuring adherence to ITAR, EAR, OFAC and U.S. Customs rules. Draft export licenses and jurisdiction classifications, implement policies and procedures, run denied‑party screening, support audits and investigations, and collaborate with engineering, legal, contracts, and security teams. Deliver training, monitor regulatory changes, and use government IT systems (DECCS, SNAP‑R) to manage export‑controlled technical data.

Lead corporate governance and legal operations including contracting playbooks, select and implement automation tools, manage Carta equity administration and cap table, support compliance (SEC, 409A), partner with Legal/Finance/HR, and scale legal ops and document governance for audits, financings, and M&A.

Responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive data capture and cost evaluation program to optimize the total life cycle cost of products at Epirus, integrating various data sources to inform design decisions and improve affordability.

Develop, baseline, and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) across concurrent defense/commercial programs using MS Project. Integrate cost and schedule data, support IBRs/PMRs, perform schedule risk analysis and Monte Carlo simulations, translate SOW into networked schedules, track critical path and schedule margin, support proposals, audits, and continuous improvement of scheduling standards.

Develop and execute RF, Antenna OTA, and EMC tests to aerospace/defense standards; create automation scripts (Python, MATLAB); troubleshoot with clients; analyze data and produce compliance-ready reports; coordinate with Torrance lab; support calibration and preventive maintenance.

Design, verify, and integrate FPGA systems for RF applications. Collaborate with teams to produce innovative hardware solutions. Lead testing phases.

Lead design and integration of power distribution and power electronics for high-power microwave phased-array systems. Develop system power budgets, define technical specifications and safety standards, prototype and test prime power and battery subsystems, perform hands-on wiring and debugging, and coordinate suppliers and subsystems through productization.

Develop and maintain supplier quality programs, perform audits and supplier qualification, lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions, support FAIs and process validation, track supplier KPIs, and collaborate with engineering and supply chain to ensure supplier readiness and product quality.

Lead development and implementation of pallet bonding, SMT, and manual electronics assembly for low/mid-volume PCBA. Drive process development, equipment selection/validation, yield improvement, PFMEA, lean/Six Sigma initiatives, NPI support, training, and production standards to ensure quality and manufacturing efficiency.

Lead integration and test of complex electro-mechanical defense systems across the lifecycle. Develop system and qualification tests, specify test hardware/software, perform RF chamber and field testing, automate measurements and analyze data, resolve subsystem integration issues, capture design-for-test practices, and transition test procedures to manufacturing while supporting final system acceptance.