Hands-on Electrical Engineer: Drones & Field-Ready PCBs

Seeing Systems (YC W26); Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Seeing Systems is building autonomous drone systems that perceive, navigate, and act intelligently in complex real-world environments. We design FPV-class drones with a modular hardware architecture, iterating weekly and testing in real environments.

You will design, build, and test the electronics inside our platforms as a core member of our growing hardware team, owning subsystems from schematic to a flying board with senior engineers beside you at the bench.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on electrical/electronics engineering experience (professional or equivalent portfolio).
• PCB design experience in Altium or KiCad – took at least one board from schematic to fabricated, working hardware.
• Solid grounding in analog, digital, and power electronics fundamentals.
• Confidence at the bench: soldering (including fine-pitch), oscilloscopes, multimeters, and methodical fault-finding.
• Bias toward shipping and willingness to test in real-world environments with the team.

Responsibilities

• Design PCBs for defined subsystems under the Founding Hardware Engineer’s guidance.
• Own board bring-up and debug for subsystems: soldering, rework, test fixtures, fault-finding.
• Support schematic capture and layout across the hardware stack, including design reviews and signal/power integrity checks.
• Design and build harnessing: connector selection, wiring, and integration into airframes and ground station hardware.
• Support RF and wireless testing: telemetry, video downlink, and range testing in the field.
• Run test campaigns with the testing lead: setup aircraft, capture data, log failures, and drive iterative revisions.
• Collaborate with manufacturers on quotes, DFM feedback, and incoming inspection as production scales.
• Use AI tools to accelerate design, firmware, and debug.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Soldering

Bench testing

Fault-finding

Field debugging

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

Seeing Systems is building autonomous drone systems that perceive, navigate, and act intelligently in complex real-world environments. We design FPV-class drones with a modular hardware architecture, iterating weekly and testing in real environments.

You will design, build, and test the electronics inside our platforms as a core member of our growing hardware team, owning subsystems from schematic to a flying board with senior engineers beside you at the bench.