Senior Hardware Systems Architect — Cross-Domain Design

Cim; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision

Wellness programs

Learning & Development

Snacks in offices

Job summary

Axon seeks a Principal Hardware Systems Architect for Axon 911 to own system architecture across electrical, RF, mechanical, thermal, and power domains. As a founding leader, you will set standards, drive cross-functional decisions, and guide design from concept through mass production.

You will collaborate with EE, RF, SW, and ME leads to define requirements, verify designs, and ensure certification readiness for U.S. and international markets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hardware engineering experience with two or more engineering domains.
• Owning system architecture and cross-disciplinary technical decisions for complex hardware.
• Experience bringing compact, battery-powered hardware to mass production (EVT/DVT/PVT).
• Deep RF/antenna integration, power, thermal management, EMI/EMC, shielding, enclosure design.
• Experience developing system requirements and validation plans; regulatory awareness.
• Experience working with ODM/JDM or contract manufacturers.
• Proficiency with Altium/Cadence, SolidWorks/Creo/NX, and related tools.
• Strong ability to communicate technical risk to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop system architecture across electrical, RF, mechanical, thermal, and power domains.
• Build system architectures, block diagrams, and interaction diagrams.
• Analyze power, thermal, and computational budgets and balance performance, size, cost.
• Lead concept studies and present outcomes to stakeholders.
• Write and vet system requirements with clear targets for teams.
• Review product requirements and simulate subsystem capability.
• Manage requirements traceability from PRD through V&V.
• Lead cross-discipline design reviews and secure stakeholder buy-in.
• Own system-level verification and risk mitigation for certification and production.

Skills

Hardware engineering

Cross-discipline engineering

System architecture

Battery-powered hardware

RF/antenna integration

Power architecture

Thermal management

EMI/EMC

Enclosure design

Design tools (Altium/Cadence)

RF test equipment

System requirements

ODM/JDM collaboration

Risk communication

Tools

Altium/Cadence

SolidWorks/Creo/NX

RF test equipment

PLM/BOM/requirements-management

Job description

Axon seeks a Principal Hardware Systems Architect for Axon 911 to own system architecture across electrical, RF, mechanical, thermal, and power domains. As a founding leader, you will set standards, drive cross-functional decisions, and guide design from concept through mass production.

You will collaborate with EE, RF, SW, and ME leads to define requirements, verify designs, and ensure certification readiness for U.S. and international markets.