Hardware Architect

Jobtailor; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior engineer to lead the architectural direction of advanced embedded products. You will own system and hardware architectures, guiding multidisciplinary teams through concept, design, and production stages.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, risk management, and collaboration with Firmware/Software teams to balance performance, cost, and manufacturability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience delivering system architectures for embedded products from concept to production.
• Strong knowledge of mixed-signal electronics, embedded processors, and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for development of monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions.
• Own system and hardware architecture for complex embedded products.
• Define system-level requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical strategies.
• Allocate requirements across hardware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test disciplines.
• Partner with Firmware and Software Architects to ensure architectural alignment.
• Drive system-level trade-offs across performance, reliability, cybersecurity, manufacturability, and cost.
• Define sensing, signal acquisition, processing, communications, timing, storage, and power architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, and governance activities throughout the lifecycle.
• Develop platform strategies to maximize technology reuse across product families.
• Support NPI, sustaining engineering, and product enhancements.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence via standards and best practices.

Skills

Embedded hardware

System architectures

Mixed-signal electronics

Embedded processors

Requirements management

Technical leadership

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the development of advanced monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions.
• Own the system and hardware architecture for complex embedded products.
• Define system-level requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical strategies.
• Allocate requirements across hardware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test disciplines.
• Partner closely with Firmware and Software Architects to ensure alignment of architectures.
• Drive system-level trade‑off decisions involving performance, reliability, accuracy, cybersecurity, manufacturability, and cost.
• Define sensing, signal acquisition, processing, communications, timing, storage, and power architectures for complex embedded systems.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical governance activities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop platform strategies that maximize technology reuse across multiple product families.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering, and product enhancement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through standards and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing embedded hardware products, with significant experience leading complex technical projects.
• Proven experience defining and delivering system architectures for embedded products from concept through production and lifecycle support.
• Strong understanding of mixed‑signal electronics, embedded processors, communications interfaces, networking technologies, and industrial instrumentation.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including requirements management, architecture decomposition, interface definition, verification strategy, and technical risk management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decision‑making across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience balancing technical, commercial, manufacturing, quality, and programme considerations.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to influence and guide engineering teams without direct line management responsibility.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in defining and delivering system architectures for complex embedded products, with a strong focus on mixed‑signal electronics, embedded processors, and systems engineering principles. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive technical decision‑making while ensuring alignment with commercial and manufacturing considerations.