End-to-End Electronics Engineer - Lead Hardware Design

Minerva; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options vesting over three years

Bupa private medical insurance

6% employer pension contribution

25 days leave plus bank holidays

Relocation support/home office budget

Job summary

Minerva Defence is a fast-growing defence technology company shaping unmanned systems with end-to-end hardware and software. You will take electronic hardware from blank schematics through prototyping, testing and a validated design for field use.

You’ll write procedures, define reviews, and grow a small team while achieving field-ready performance within months. You will lead design reviews, own power systems, BOM, and lifecycle documentation, and collaborate with firmware, mechanical and

Qualifications

• Experience designing analog and digital circuits from schematic to hardware.
• Strong hands-on lab and debugging skills with test equipment.
• Power electronics experience: regulators, protection, battery and charging systems.
• Track record of component selection and BOM ownership balancing availability and cost.
• Eligible for UK SC clearance (UK citizen or 5+ years UK residency).
• Willing to work on site in our West Midlands offices at least three days a week.

Responsibilities

• Design analog and digital circuits, and produce the schematics behind them
• Take hardware from first prototype through testing and debug to a validated design
• Lead PCB layout reviews for signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and manufacturability
• Own power design: DC-DC, LDO, and battery and charging systems
• Own the BOM, documentation, and revision control, including engineering change orders
• Support manufacturing, production, and suppliers as designs go to build
• Work alongside firmware, mechanical, and systems engineers to make the whole system perform

Skills

Analog and digital circuit design

Hands-on lab debugging

Power electronics

BOM ownership

Team mentoring

Job description

Minerva Defence is a fast-growing defence technology company shaping unmanned systems with end-to-end hardware and software. You will take electronic hardware from blank schematics through prototyping, testing and a validated design for field use.

You’ll write procedures, define reviews, and grow a small team while achieving field-ready performance within months. You will lead design reviews, own power systems, BOM, and lifecycle documentation, and collaborate with firmware, mechanical and