Hardware Development Team Lead
Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and end-to-end development of complex systems, from architecture and prototyping through design verification and validation. Coordinate with Systems Engineering, project managers, and customers.
Responsibilities
- Manage and lead mechanical, hardware, firmware, and RF engineers, ensuring delivery against project plans and objectives.
- Lead end-to-end product development, including system architecture, technical oversight, prototype development, and design verification and validation.
- Coordinate engineering teams with Systems Engineering and project managers; lead internal and customer design reviews.
- Select and implement development tools, methodologies, and technologies; establish engineering processes, milestones, and design-review deliverables.
- Set priorities and allocate engineering work according to business needs and project requirements.
- Recruit, mentor, and evaluate engineers; define roles and responsibilities and support professional development.
- Run status meetings, management reviews, and project progress meetings.
- Prepare technical tender responses, including proposals, effort estimates, and cost evaluations.
- Provide technical support for internal engineering challenges and customer issues.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on hardware development and board design experience, or firmware engineering experience.
- At least 4 years managing multidisciplinary engineering teams of five or more engineers.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience working directly with customers.
Nice to have
- Experience preparing project cost estimates, pricing, and technical proposals for competitive tenders.
- Background in microwave communications, telemetry systems, or microwave-frequency RF engineering.