Principal Electronics Engineer

Overview

As Principal Electronics Design Engineer you will lead hands-on electronic design across unmanned and autonomous systems, owning delivery from concept to production. You’ll mentor a growing electronics team and set technical direction within a cross-functional product development environment. You play a pivotal role in architecture, integration, and production readiness, ensuring high-quality, robust systems. This role offers influence over strategy and a chance to shape cutting-edge defence and autonomous technologies.

Pay / Benefits

• direct influence over product development
• opportunity to work on advanced defence and autonomous technologies
• exposure to full product lifecycle from concept to deployment
• significant scope for personal growth and career progression
• collaborative and innovative engineering environment

Responsibilities

• Lead electronic design and development activities across multiple programmes
• Coach and mentor a team of electronics engineers
• Own technical delivery of electronic systems, PCB designs and subsystems
• Support architecture definition, component selection, testing, integration and production readiness
• Collaborate with mechanical, systems and embedded software teams to deliver robust products
• Drive engineering best practice, quality standards and technical governance
• Support troubleshooting, fault finding and design improvements throughout the lifecycle

Key requirements

• Strong background in electronic engineering, circuit design and PCB development
• Experience leading engineering teams within a product development environment
• Knowledge of embedded systems and microcontrollers (e.g., STM32)
• Experience with power electronics, battery management, communications interfaces and sensor integration
• Understanding of RF systems, datalinks and protocols including CAN, UART, I2C and PWM
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership

• stakeholder management
• clear communication
• technical leadership
• PCB design
• embedded systems
• STM32 or similar microcontrollers

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