Lead Hardware Engineer

What you'll do

• Own hardware architecture and detailed mechanical, electrical, optical, and test engineering; lead design, integration, and verification.
• Manage NPI and transition prototype and EDU systems through EMD to high-rate production, including builds and milestone readiness.
• Lead engineers and oversee test equipment, hardware sustainment, configuration control, and resolution of field issues.

What they ask for

• Technical degree in a field such as mechanical, electrical, optical, or systems engineering, physics, or a hard science.
• 8+ years developing and deploying complex electromechanical, electro-optical, or active sensing systems.
• Broad mechanical, electrical, optical, and test engineering expertise, including system design, architecture, and performance modeling.
• Experience managing NPI, initial system builds, and hardware scaling or sustainment; must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience with active optical/imaging systems, Ladar/Lidar, or high-precision pointing architectures.
• Experience transitioning prototypes to qualified EMD and production, and with environmental testing.

Pay

$165,000 — $218,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Ladar, Lidar, EO/IR, NPI, EDU, EMD, DVT, V+V

AI focus

The role develops ladar and EO/IR hardware; the posting describes the broader team’s use of computer vision, perception, and sensor data but does not specify AI work for this position.