Senior Electrical & Electronic Engineer: Hands-On Tech Leader

Silentium Defence; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Silentium Defence is seeking a Senior Electrical & Electronic Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with mentoring, collaboration and technical leadership. You’ll remain hands-on with design, development, integration, verification and troubleshooting while guiding other engineers and coordinating priorities with the Hardware Team Lead.

You’ll lead complex hardware and subsystem design, review outputs, and support product development from concept to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years’ electrical/electronic engineering experience in product design.
• Strong analogue, digital and mixed-signal design experience.
• Experience with electronic subsystem integration, verification, validation and troubleshooting.
• Strong governance, requirements traceability and configuration management.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering environments.
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing engineers.
• Ability to coordinate technical activities and manage competing priorities.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
• Collaborative approach and willingness to share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership across Electrical & Electronic Engineering activities.
• Leading complex electronic hardware and subsystem design and development.
• Mentoring and coaching junior and mid-level engineers.
• Supporting the Hardware Team Lead with technical priorities, workload coordination and task allocation.
• Reviewing engineering outputs and providing constructive technical feedback.
• Guiding engineering decisions through analysis, trade studies and risk assessment.
• Supporting requirements development, design, integration, verification and validation.
• Helping resolve technical blockers and complex engineering problems; improving processes, tools, standards and ways of working.
• Supporting configuration management, design governance and requirements traceability.
• Working closely with Systems, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, Test, Production and Project teams.
• Supporting product development, production transition and design sustainment.
• Providing technical support during field trials, demonstrations and customer activities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

System design

Hardware verification

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Job description

Silentium Defence is seeking a Senior Electrical & Electronic Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with mentoring, collaboration and technical leadership. You’ll remain hands-on with design, development, integration, verification and troubleshooting while guiding other engineers and coordinating priorities with the Hardware Team Lead.

You’ll lead complex hardware and subsystem design, review outputs, and support product development from concept to production.