Senior Hardware Engineer
About the role
Senior hardware role responsible for owning hardware from schematic to flying systems, including design of electronics, physical systems, RF subsystems, and modular architecture for autonomous drones.
Responsibilities
- Design PCBs end-to-end: flight controllers, motor drivers, RF and antenna boards, power distribution, BMS, sensor boards, and payload boards
- Own schematic capture, multi-layer layout, bring-up, debug, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC
- Build the physical system around the electronics: enclosures, mounts, thermal solutions, airframe integration, and ground station hardware
- Own RF and wireless subsystems: telemetry, video downlink, and command & control, including antenna integration and range testing in poor conditions and optimise for high-interference environments
- Define system architecture and translate block diagrams into functional products
- Work with manufacturers and suppliers on cost, yield, reliability, and manufacturability
- Use AI tools to accelerate design, firmware, and debug
- Help define engineering culture, tools, and the hardware team behind you
- Within 30 days: bring up first custom board and fly it; Within 90 days: complete first production-ready revision of modular flight controller and integrate into alpha airframe
Qualifications
- A track record of taking hardware from blank page to manufactured units or portfolio of personal builds
- Strong PCB design skills in Altium or KiCad
- Deep grounding in analog, digital, and power electronics
- Real RF/wireless design experience
- Comfortable with gap between bench and field operations
- Bias toward shipping
- Willingness to test in real-world conditions with the team
Skills
Benefits
- Not specified in description
About Seeing Systems
Modular AI-Commanded Drones for Defence
We're building inexpensive, autonomous strike drones designed to stay operationally relevant as warfare evolves. By combining true hardware modularity with an agentic control system that lowers cognitive load on operators, we enable faster upgrades, broader adoption, and more than 2x reduction in lifecycle cost. Our customers and partners include the UK Royal Marine Commandos, several other units in the UK, and 4 other NATO forces, and we are currently shipping prototypes for iterative feedback. Think of us as Anduril, but with worse weather, and better banter.
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