Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced New Product Introduction (NPI) Engineer to support the transfer of new electronic products from concept and prototype through qualification, production release, and manufacturing ramp-up.

Combining electronic engineering knowledge with a strong manufacturing background, you will work across design, manufacturing, process, test, quality, and supply-chain teams to ensure products are robust, manufacturable, testable, and ready for repeatable production.

You will support products through the engineering design review gates, lead the manufacturing design reviews, and take ownership of production-readiness activities.

Key Responsibilities

Support NPI activities from concept and prototype through qualification, production release, and manufacturing ramp-up.
Represent manufacturing throughout product development, ensuring manufacturability, assembly, test, reliability, and production requirements are considered from an early stage.
Support electronic engineering activities, including requirements capture, design reviews, component selection, verification, and validation.
Support product design review gates and lead manufacturing design reviews and production-readiness reviews.
Contribute to the development of manufacturing approaches, including process flow, assembly methods, tooling, equipment, inspection, and production-test requirements.
Plan and support prototype, pilot, and pre-production builds, resolving design and manufacturing issues through structured root cause analysis.
Support the preparation and release of manufacturing documentation, including bills of material, drawings, work instructions, process specifications, and test requirements.
Work with suppliers and internal teams to ensure components, materials, processes, equipment, and resources are ready for production.
Support the implementation of design changes and maintain configuration control of product and process documentation.
Support the handover into production and assist early manufacturing activities until the required quality, yield, and process stability have been achieved.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.
Significant experience in electronic product development, NPI, manufacturing engineering, or product engineering within high-reliability, regulated, safety-critical, harsh-environment, or high-performance applications.
Demonstrable experience transferring electronic products from concept or prototype through qualification, production release, and manufacturing ramp-up.
Strong practical background in electronic manufacturing, including process development, assembly, inspection, production test, and manufacturing documentation.
Good electronic engineering knowledge, with experience reviewing or developing schematics, layouts, component selections, and bills of material.
Good understanding of design for manufacturability, design for assembly, design for test, and design for reliability, together with process validation, root cause analysis, engineering change control, and configuration management.
Experience participating in cross-functional design and manufacturing reviews, with strong planning, communication, problem-solving, and hands-on production support skills.

Desirable Experience

Experience with hybrid microelectronics, micro circuit modules, advanced electronic packaging, chip-and-wire, chip-and-bond wire, die attach, or wire bonding.
Experience with RF, microwave, high-frequency, precision analogue, or harsh-environment electronics.
Experience developing or manufacturing electronics for oil and gas, aerospace, defense, space, automotive, medical, or other high-reliability sectors.
Experience with product qualification, environmental or reliability testing, process qualification, or manufacturing-readiness assessment.
Knowledge of relevant IPC, aerospace, defense, or high-reliability electronics standards.
Familiarity with process FMEA, control plans, APQP, PPAP, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar NPI and continuous-improvement approaches.
Experience working with external suppliers, subcontract manufacturers, or specialist process providers.

Other Requirements

You must be eligible for full security clearance.
Occasional travel may be required for supplier, customer, or project engagement.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Third-Party Recruiters

Please note, that per Spectrum Control Policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our values and expectations. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Spectrum Control will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity. If you or your agency are interested in becoming an approved vendor please contact [email protected].

About the company

Spectrum Control designs and manufactures high-reliability RF/microwave, microelectronics, EMI protection, power, and secure-systems solutions for defense, aerospace, commercial, and industrial customers. Its products include RF/microwave and millimeter-wave components, EMI filters and interconnects, power supplies for harsh environments, and secure hardware and software for trusted communications. The company differentiates itself as a global, one-stop provider with a broad catalog and in-house design, manufacturing, and integration across multiple high-reliability domains. Its goal is to deliver dependable, high-performance components and systems that enable safer communications, robust power delivery, and protected information systems for critical applications worldwide.

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Headquarters

Fairview, Illinois

Founded

1968

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Greenbriar announced September 29, 2026, backing engineering, product development, and manufacturing expansion.
IMS 2026 launches cut lead times by 50% and shrink board-space requirements.
Rich Sorelle said turnover fell from 30 percent to 5 percent, strengthening execution.

What critics are saying

Greenbriar closes by Q1 2027; regulatory delay or failure could disrupt hiring and planning.
Defense and aerospace customers buy slowly; missed design wins delay revenue for years.
Heavy exposure to high-reliability end markets leaves Spectrum vulnerable if Pentagon spending weakens.

What makes Spectrum Control unique

Spectrum Control builds engineered RF components, subsystems, and custom signal-conditioning solutions.
Its SCi Blocks and DirectRF modules compress EW, radar, and SIGINT front ends.
Filtered Connector Express integrates pin-by-pin EMI filtering directly inside connector entry points.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
Health Insurance
Pension Scheme with 6% Employer Contributions
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Programme
Continuous Development and Career Progression Opportunities

Company News

Business Wire

Sep 29th, 2026

Greenbriar acquires RF components maker Spectrum Control from AEA Investors

Greenbriar Equity Group has agreed to acquire Spectrum Control from AEA Investors. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1981, Spectrum develops and manufactures radio frequency components and subsystems for defence and high-reliability industrial markets. The company provides solutions for signal protection, conditioning, and processing across aerospace, defence, space, and commercial applications. Spectrum will continue under president and CEO Rich Sorelle and its existing management team. Under Greenbriar's ownership, the company plans to invest in engineering capabilities, product development, customer relationships, and manufacturing operations. Greenbriar is a middle-market private equity firm with over $15bn in assets under management. AEA Investors, founded in 1968, manages approximately $19bn in assets. The transaction is expected to close by Q1 2027, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

Bloomberg

Sep 27th, 2026

Greenbriar nears $1.8 billion Spectrum Control purchase.

Greenbriar nears $1.8 billion Spectrum Control purchase. September 27, 2026 at 1:33 PM PDT Buyout firm Greenbriar Equity Group LP is nearing a deal to acquire radio frequency and microwave components-maker Spectrum Control for more than $1.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The private equity firm prevailed over industrial companies to acquire Spectrum Control from rival buyout firm AEA Investors, the people said.

Engineers Garage

Jun 29th, 2026

Spectrum Control adds dual-channel RF SiPs.

Spectrum Control adds dual-channel RF SiPs. Spectrum Control has introduced the SCi Blocks(TM) family of dual-channel block converter RF+ SiPs for high-channel-density RF and microwave systems. Available as a downconverter, upconverter or transceiver, the devices support 18 GHz to 26 GHz and 26 GHz to 40 GHz operation, include RF conversion, filtering, gain control, power regulation, RF detection and temperature monitoring, and provide 26 dB digital gain control in 0.5 dB steps with 300 ns attenuator settling and 1 μs band-select switching. Designed for applications such as EW/SIGINT, radar, aerospace and defense and test systems, the 30 mm^2 surface-mount packages help reduce board space, discrete component count and integration effort.

Engineers Garage

Jun 29th, 2026

Spectrum Control adds filtered D-Sub connectors.

Spectrum Control adds filtered D-Sub connectors. Spectrum Control has introduced D-Sub Filtered Connectors as part of its Filtered Connector Express(TM) series, giving engineers a way to configure custom filtered connectors with per-pin selective loading through an online tool. The connectors are available in 9-, 15-, 25-, 37- and 50-pin shell sizes with four termination options and selectable filter types and capacitance, allowing filtering to be integrated at the connector entry point instead of using discrete components. Designed for applications including military and aerospace systems, industrial equipment, cellular base stations and medical electronics, a single connector can replace up to 128 discrete filters to reduce board space and system complexity.

Military Embedded Systems

Dec 10th, 2025

Wideband RF transceiver card targeting multi-mission EW payloads showcased at AOC 2025

Wideband RF transceiver card targeting multi-mission EW payloads showcased at AOC 2025. December 10, 2025 NATIONAL HARBOR, maryland. Spectrum Control is showcasing a 16-channel wideband radio-frequency transceiver card at AOC 2025 that is intended to condense electronic warfare, radar, and signals-intelligence front ends into a single 3U module. The DirectRF card combines eight transmit and eight receive paths on one 3U VPX plug-in, with the goal of giving system designers a common building block for different mission profiles, the company says. The module covers roughly 0.1 to 36 GHz and is built to handle wide slices of spectrum at once, which is aimed at receivers and transmitters that must watch for many signals or threats in parallel rather than tuning across bands, according to the statement. An Intel Agilex 9 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) on the card provides local signal processing and control so that some detection, filtering, or beam-control tasks can occur on the module instead of in a separate processor, Spectrum Control says. The design supports synchronization across multiple cards so that integrators can build out larger arrays for beamforming or direction finding without custom hardware, the company adds. The company describes the module as aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, as well as VITA 49.2 profiles, which is intended to help primes and subsystem suppliers plug the card into existing modular open-systems racks and reuse the same RF front end across airborne, naval, and ground platforms.

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