Director of Electrical Engineering

Director of Electrical & Radio Systems Engineering Why Join Us My client is a high-growth aerospace and defense-tech company developing advanced autonomous hardware platforms for mission-critical applications. The team has scaled quickly over the past year and is now looking to bring on a senior electrical engineering leader to own hardware architecture, strengthen engineering execution, and build deeper internal capability around radio/wireless systems, EMI/EMC, and platform-level electrical systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at the system architecture level, guide board-level electrical design, mentor teams, and make sure complex hardware moves reliably from prototype into production. The strongest fit is someone with broad electrical systems experience across embedded hardware, processors, cameras/displays, sensors, motors/actuation, batteries, and power electronics, with proven radio/wireless hardware experience, including system integration, FCC/compliance exposure, and validation of real-world communication performance. What You'll Own Lead and scale a growing electrical engineering team while building a new internal radio/wireless systems capability from the ground up. Identify team gaps, shape hiring needs, and strengthen ownership, documentation, and technical decision-making. Guide system-level electrical architecture across embedded hardware, including processors, compute modules, PCBAs, sensors, camera/display interfaces, interconnects, power distribution, batteries, BMS, and motor/actuation electronics. Review and guide schematic design, board-level architecture, PCB bring-up, validation, signal integrity, power integrity, and production readiness. Ensure hardware designs are reliable, manufacturable, testable, and able to move from prototype through production release. Guide integration of wireless communication systems across complex hardware platforms, including radio module selection, antenna placement, signal performance, range, interference, and system-level reliability. Own design-for-compliance efforts for connected hardware, including wireless certification support, EMI/EMC troubleshooting, pre-compliance testing, grounding/shielding considerations, and cross-functional issue resolution. Drive disciplined electrical and wireless validation across lab testing, field testing, debug, root cause analysis, and design improvements. Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve system-level tradeoffs and integration issues. Communicate technical risks, priorities, and resource needs clearly across engineering and leadership teams. Ideal Background Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field. 10+ years in electrical engineering, hardware engineering, or electrical systems development for complex embedded/electromechanical products. 5+ years leading engineers, technical teams, or cross-functional hardware programs. Strong foundation in electrical engineering design across PCBAs, schematic review, board bring-up, embedded electronics, processors/SoCs, power architecture, sensors, cameras/displays, interconnects, batteries, and system integration. Experience integrating common processor platforms or embedded compute architectures. Experience taking hardware through development, test, iteration, validation, and production release. Working knowledge of wireless/radio communications hardware, including WiFi, Bluetooth, radio modules, antenna selection, signal performance, or communications system integration. Experience supporting or leading FCC certification, wireless compliance, EMI/EMC testing, pre-compliance debug, grounding/shielding, signal integrity, or design-for-compliance efforts. Comfortable making system-level architecture decisions while going deep enough to review designs, troubleshoot issues, and guide technical execution. Track record building team structure, improving engineering processes, and mentoring technical leads in fast-moving environments. Background in aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, robotics, eVTOL, med robotics, or other complex hardware products. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. #J-18808-Ljbffr Lumicity