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As far as hiring, I'd hire a capable engineer tomorrow if I could find one that can do what I need without me directly supervising it.

That's odd, you don't know of a single established EE that isn't making $100k+ yet you can't find a capable engineer. Seems like a disconnect.

I use to live in the Bay Area and fortunately escaped. It has been 15 years now. Most the engineers I know are long time associates and are self-employed.

My business (where the manufacturing is) is in San Jose. We have a manufacturing engineer there along with several other employees.

So I will admit that I'm somewhat disconnected from the heart of the industry due to where I live.

The person I need needs to be skilled in a wide area (analog, digital including FGPA design in VHDL, RF, embedded software and PCB layout) and have a familiarity with communications equipment (particularly satellite) along with being self motivated that can work productively unsupervised at home. That's a tall order... It also needs to be someone that can grow into our business for the long term.