# Director, Applications Engineering

We are looking to add a Director, Applications Engineering to our team. In this role you will lead the customer-facing technical organization responsible for ensuring customers can successfully understand, integrate, operate, and deploy the company’s products and solutions. The Director oversees a team of Applications Engineers who serve as technical experts on the company’s products and act as a critical interface between customers, Product, Engineering, Business Development, and program execution. The Director owns the Voice of the Customer within the product organization, ensuring that customer needs, integration challenges, operational experience, and product feedback are translated into actionable product requirements, roadmap priorities, documentation, tools, and improvements. Supporting customers throughout the product lifecycle-from early product evaluation and pursuits through integration, test, deployment, and on-orbit or operational support-the Applications Engineering organization focuses on making complex communication products easy to adopt, integrate, and successfully operate. JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Lead Applications Engineering. Build, develop, and lead a h

- **Id**: 3721040
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-director-applications-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: El Segundo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T23:27:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T11:18:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5530
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Embedded & Electronics Design, Satellite Communications, RF & Wireless Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 5315
- **Name**: CesiumAstro
- **Domain**: cesiumastro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cesiumastro>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.615
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 47
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 228000
- **Max**: 279000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 279000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T02:39:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 70
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.695
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, wave, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 279000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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