Lead Electronics Engineer

Maxwell Bond; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond in London is hiring a Lead Electronics Engineer to stay hands-on, work directly with customers, and help build a future electronics team.

This varied role is roughly 50% technical and 50% customer-facing, offering the chance to tackle engineering challenges while influencing customer projects and strategic decisions across an international client base.

Hybrid work, with travel opportunities and a salary up to 110K.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of electronics design experience.
• Experience with ECAD tools.
• Experience with Altium and Cadence.
• Strong communication with customers and software engineers.
• MCAD and SaaS experience is a nice-to-have.

Responsibilities

• Act as the internal electronics expert, supporting software engineers and wider technical teams.
• Help develop new features and contribute to system-level technical decisions.
• Work across a variety of electronics projects depending on customer requirements.
• Troubleshoot and solve complex technical problems.
• Support customer Proof of Value projects and help de-risk technical delivery.
• Spend around 50% of your time working directly with customers.
• Translate customer requirements into clear internal requirements.
• Collaborate with an international customer base across Europe, the US, Taipei and the Philippines.
• Provide team leadership and people management.
• Provide technical direction and feature planning and prioritisation.

Skills

Electronics design

Customer communication

Team leadership

ECAD tools

Tools

Altium

Cadence

Job description

Lead Electronics Engineer

London - Hybrid

Up to 110K

Are you aLead Electronics Engineerlooking for a role where you can stay hands-on technically, work directly with customers, and ultimately build and lead an electronics team?

We’re working with an innovative technology business that is looking for aLead Electronics Engineerto become the go-to electronics expert across the business.

This is a genuinely varied role, split roughly50% technical and 50% customer-facing, giving you the chance to work on interesting engineering problems while having a direct impact on customer projects.

What you'll be doing as the Lead Electronics Engineer:

• Act as the internal electronics expert, supporting software engineers and wider technical teams.
• Help develop new features and contribute to system-level technical decisions.
• Work across a variety of electronics projects depending on customer requirements.
• Troubleshoot and solve complex technical problems.
• Support customerProof of Valueprojects and help de-risk technical delivery.
• Spend around 50% of your time working directly with customers.
• Understand customer requirements and translate them into clear internal requirements.
• Work with an international customer base acrossEurope, the US, Taipei and the Philippines.
• Team leadership and people management.
• Technical direction and feature planning and prioritisation.

You’ll ideally have:

• Broad electronics design experience -10+ years' experience
• Experience across differentECAD tools.
• Experience withAltium and/or Cadence.
• The ability to understand complex technical problems and work logically towards solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly when working with customers and software engineers.
• MCAD and SaaS experience is nice to have

Salary up to 110K, Hybrid working (2-3 days a week onsite), international travel to visit customers, opportunities to build a team in the future