Portfolio Hardware Architect & Technical Lead

3dB Labs; Olde West Chester (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

3dB Labs is seeking a Hardware Technical Lead to serve as the senior portfolio-level technical authority for hardware architecture, standards, lifecycle, and manufacturability across the product line. You will partner with software and production to ensure cohesive, high-quality hardware platforms and timely technology refreshes.

The role emphasizes leading design reviews, trade studies, and cross-product issue escalation while ensuring portfolio-wide coherence and adherence to best practices in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Significant hardware or systems engineering experience with architecture or technical leadership responsibility for complex, integrated products.
• Experience across electrical, mechanical, compute, RF, power, thermal, networking, or other hardware domains.
• Proven ability to lead trade studies and design reviews, assess technical estimates and risks, guide component decisions, and mentor engineers.
• Experience with ruggedized systems, defense or mission systems, and low-volume/high-complexity manufacturing is desirable.
• US citizenship is required; Top Secret clearance is a major plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish common hardware architecture principles and standards for compute, electrical, mechanical design, power, thermal, RF, networking, and other shared interfaces.
• Identify opportunities to standardize components, platforms, and interfaces to improve reliability, cost, supply resilience, production efficiency.
• Review major hardware and platform decisions affecting multiple products or baselines and document portfolio-wide standards.
• Partner with Product Technical Leads early in requirements to ensure hardware approaches are portfolio-aware.
• Lead or participate in design reviews and trade studies for significant new hardware and technology refreshes.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for cross-product hardware issues and coordinate with software on drivers and integration.
• Maintain visibility into lifecycle risks, vendor end-of-life events, lead times, and supply constraints across the portfolio.
• Plan technology refreshes with Product Managers and Production to prevent disruptions.
• Support platform and component selection, make/buy decisions, and transitions between hardware baselines.
• Ensure hardware transitions to Production with stable designs and proper build/test data.
• Use failures and root-cause analysis to improve hardware standards and prevent recurring issues.

Job description

3dB Labs is seeking a Hardware Technical Lead to serve as the senior portfolio-level technical authority for hardware architecture, standards, lifecycle, and manufacturability across the product line. You will partner with software and production to ensure cohesive, high-quality hardware platforms and timely technology refreshes.

The role emphasizes leading design reviews, trade studies, and cross-product issue escalation while ensuring portfolio-wide coherence and adherence to best practices in