Chief Electronics Engineer

Avanti Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering technology company is seeking a Chief Electronic Engineer to shape the product roadmap and lead innovative hardware design projects. The role requires 12-20 years of hands-on hardware design experience, including work in high-speed electronics. This position offers significant stock options, hybrid working arrangement, and opportunities to work with a talented engineering team. Become a key player in an organization known for its groundbreaking electronic design platforms.

Benefits

Significant stock options package

25 days holiday

Hybrid working – 2 days per week onsite in London Bridge

10 additional work from anywhere days per year

Annual company retreat

Qualifications

• 12-20 years of hands on hardware design experience.
• Strong progression from Senior to Chief roles.
• Breadth across analogue, digital, power, and high-speed design.
• Experience with DDR, PCIe or similar high speed electronics.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product roadmap from a hardware engineering perspective.
• Define detailed feature specifications for new platform capabilities.
• Lead AI assisted hardware design projects for enterprise customers.
• Validate and refine generated schematics across a wide range of applications.

Skills

Hardware design experience

Analogue and digital design

Microcontrollers

DFT for FPGAs

High-speed design expertise

Job description

A pioneering technology company is seeking a Chief Electronic Engineer to lead the evolution of an industry defining AI powered electronics design platform. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced hardware engineer to shape the future of automated electronic design while working with a world class team.

About the Company

The organisation has developed a groundbreaking system that enables engineers to rapidly generate complete electronic schematics and supporting documentation from high-level design intent. The platform is already used by global leaders across aerospace, defence, industrial and consumer electronics, and is backed by top-tier investors.

This is the only company in the world offering this level of automation in hardware design.

The Role

As Chief Electronic Engineer, you will become the most senior hardware specialist in the business. You will guide both the product direction and the successful delivery of customer proof-of-concept projects. This role is suited to someone who combines deep technical capability with the ability to communicate, influence and architect solutions.

You will:

• Shape the product roadmap from a hardware engineering perspective
• Define detailed feature specifications for new platform capabilities
• Provide expert input into architecture, data models and engineering logic
• Lead AI assisted hardware design projects for enterprise customers
• Validate and refine generated schematics across a wide range of applications
• Support, guide and collaborate with other hardware engineers and cross-functional teams

You will not be writing production software, but your engineering knowledge will directly inform how the product evolves.

About You

You will be a high calibre electronics engineer with:

• 12-20 years of hands on hardware design experience
• Strong progression (Senior, Lead, Principal, Chief etc.)
• Breadth across analogue, digital, power, microcontrollers, SoCs, FPGAs and high speed design
• Depth in two to four specialist areas
• Experience in high speed electronics (DDR, PCIe or similar)
• Solid engineering rigor including analysis and validation work
• Ability to work closely with software teams and contribute to technical documentation
• Backgrounds from aerospace, defence, industrial, consultancy or advanced R&D organisations are particularly relevant.

Package & Benefits

Salary between £(phone number removed) DOE

• Significant stock options package
• 25 days holiday
• Hybrid working – 2 days per week onsite in London Bridge
• 10 additional “work from anywhere” days per year
• Annual company retreat
• Work with exceptionally strong engineers across hardware, software and product