Lead Electronics Engineer

SoCode Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SoCode Recruitment seeks an experienced Electronics Engineer to lead a growing team just outside Dublin, Ireland. The role is senior, client-facing, and focuses on owning the electronics side of product programmes from concept to market-ready devices, guiding architecture, and briefing both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.

You'll build a cross-disciplinary team around you, drawing on in-house labs and workshops to deliver hardware/software splits, prototypes, and scalable

Qualifications

• Architect embedded systems for consumer products balancing hardware/software partitioning under form-factor constraints.
• Turn early-stage concepts into workable electronics architecture and explain that architecture clearly to a delivery team.
• Strong foundation across embedded hardware, wireless connectivity, power management and firmware development.
• Lead teams and projects; communicate with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with EU/US regulatory requirements and designing to compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the electronics team and own the hardware/software split for product programmes.
• Guide builds from sketch to working prototype with in-house labs and workshops.
• Brief engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders on progress and decisions.
• Drive end-to-end product development from concept to market release.

Skills

Embedded systems architecture

Hardware/software partitioning

Low-level firmware

Wireless connectivity

Power management

Cross-functional leadership

End-to-end product experience

Regulatory compliance

Communication skills

Job description

Do you lead teams while still staying active in hands-on electronics engineering?

We're partnering with a global product innovation consultancy to find a highly capable Electronics Engineer to lead their team based in their office just outside of Dublin, Ireland. The business builds physical products for major international brands across a variety of sectors, taking ideas from first concept through to devices on shelves, and has its own in-house labs and workshops to support that.

This is a senior, client-facing position for someone who can own the electronics side of a product programme end to end: shaping the hardware/software split, guiding a build from sketch to working prototype, and briefing both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders along the way. It suits somebody who isn't boxed into a single discipline, but instead would consider themselves to be proficient across the board. The plan is to build a team around this person alongside the engineers currently in place, so this is a great opportunity for a skilled electronics engineer who wants to be responsible for the growth of a new department in an already successful business.

What You'll Bring

• Track record architecting embedded systems for consumer products, balancing hardware/software partitioning against tight, real-world form-factor constraints
• Ability to turn early-stage product concepts into a workable electronics architecture, and explain that architecture clearly to a delivery team
• Strong technical foundation across embedded hardware, wireless connectivity, power management and low-level firmware development
• Confidence operating across the electronics/mechanical and electronics/software boundaries
• End-to-end product experience, including taking designs through consumer trials to market release
• Working knowledge of EU/US regulatory requirements and a history of designing to relevant compliance standards
• Strong communicator, able to pitch technical detail to engineers and plain-English summaries to everyone else
• Experience leading both teams and projects successfully

Also Valued

• A first-principles, bench-testing mindset when facing unfamiliar problems
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting requirements

If you are a technical leader who enjoys variety in their work, as well as solving high-profile, real life challenges, then this could be the role for you.