Remote Mesh Hardware Lead — IoT & Edge Systems

LMI Government Consulting; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting is seeking a Mesh Hardware Engineering Lead to guide the end-to-end development of connected hardware platforms for defense modernization. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable hardware solutions from concept through production.

Role requires deep embedded hardware expertise, leadership experience, and collaboration across electrical, firmware, RF, mechanical, and cloud teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing embedded hardware, IoT devices, or connected systems.
• Experience serving as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, or similar technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary hardware engineering efforts from concept through production.
• Experience developing embedded systems utilizing C/C++ and ARM-based microcontrollers.
• Experience working across electrical engineering, embedded firmware, RF, mechanical design, manufacturing, and cloud software teams.
• Experience supporting hardware bring-up, validation, manufacturing, and product deployment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills spanning hardware, embedded systems, communications, and system integration.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense or Federal technology programs is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical leader for LMI's Mesh Hardware Engineering Team.
• Define the technical vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap for the Mesh hardware platform.
• Mentor and guide engineers across electrical, embedded firmware, RF, and hardware development disciplines.
• Lead technical design reviews and drive engineering decision-making throughout the product lifecycle.
• Establish engineering standards, development processes, testing methodologies, and quality practices.
• Drive execution across multiple hardware development efforts while balancing technical priorities, schedules, and product quality.
• Partner with Product Management, Software Engineering, AI, Manufacturing,DevSecOps, and Program Leadership to align technical strategy and execution.
• Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful product delivery.
• Lead the design, development, and integration of connected hardware platforms including asset tags, gateways, sensors, wearable devices, and edge computing hardware.
• Guide electrical system architecture including processor selection, power management, communications, sensing, and peripheral integration.
• Support embedded firmware architecture and development for low-power embedded systems.
• Oversee wireless communications integration utilizing Bluetooth LE, LoRa, GNSS, LTE, Wi-Fi, UWB, and other IoT communication technologies.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineering to develop ruggedized, manufacturable, and mission-ready products.
• Support hardware bring-up, prototype validation, environmental testing, manufacturing readiness, and production.
• Guide secure hardware and firmware architecture including secure provisioning, cryptographic services, secure boot, and over-the-air (OTA) update capabilities.
• Ensure seamless integration between hardware, embedded software, cloud platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Lead products through the complete development lifecycle from concept and prototype through validation, production, deployment, and sustainment.
• Support supplier selection, component qualification, manufacturing partners, and production readiness.
• Review schematics, PCB layouts, systemarchitectures, and engineering documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, design quality, manufacturability, and product reliability.
• Represent the hardware engineering organization during customer engagements, technical reviews, demonstrations, and executive briefings.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative engineering culture focused on technical excellence and mission success.

Skills

Embedded hardware

C/C++

ARM Cortex-M

RF/wireless

System integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering discipline

Tools

PCB design

Embedded software tools

Job description

LMI Government Consulting is seeking a Mesh Hardware Engineering Lead to guide the end-to-end development of connected hardware platforms for defense modernization. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable hardware solutions from concept through production.

Role requires deep embedded hardware expertise, leadership experience, and collaboration across electrical, firmware, RF, mechanical, and cloud teams.