Head - Hardware Engineering - Semiconductors/Electronics

Core Responsibilities:

- Own hardware architecture across the product portfolio - secure-communication transmitters and receivers, random-number modules and security appliances.

- Lead the digital/FPGA design effort and the high-speed analog and mixed-signal front-ends that interface with optics and detectors.

- Drive design-for-manufacture, EMC, thermal and signal-integrity qualification, and reliability testing through to certification.

- Build and lead the hardware team, and own vendor relationships, BoM cost and production transfer to manufacturing partners.

- Partner with the physics, silicon and software teams to close the loop from component to fielded system.

- Set the hardware roadmap and the engineering standards the team builds to.

Skills & Experience:

We care more about depth, curiosity and leadership than a checklist - if you are strong in most of the below and excited by the rest, we want to hear from you.

- Digital / FPGA design: RTL design and verification on modern FPGA/SoC platforms, high-speed interfaces and timing closure. Deep low-noise or high-speed digital experience from any domain transfers well.

- Analog & mixed-signal: high-speed and low-noise front-ends - amplifiers, data converters, driver and detection circuits. Precision-instrumentation or RF backgrounds are a strong fit.

- Board & system integration: PCB design, signal and power integrity, EMC, and bringing a multi-board system from prototype to qualified product.

- Productisation: design-for-manufacture and test, environmental qualification, and BoM and supply-chain management.

- Electro-optic interfacing (a plus): drive electronics for modulators and detectors - valuable, but we will support the right candidate in coming up the optics learning curve.

- Leadership: leading multidisciplinary hardware teams and delivering against demanding government and commercial milestones.

Good to Have - Leadership & Management:

- Project management: running multi-workstream technical programs against government and commercial milestones; risk, dependency and schedule management; stage-gate / TRL-based delivery.

- Product management: turning customer and stakeholder needs into requirements and roadmaps, and balancing technical, cost and time-to-market trade-offs.

- People leadership: hiring, mentoring and growing a high-calibre team; setting goals and giving feedback; building a first-principles engineering culture.

- Stakeholder engagement: engaging government, academic and industry partners, and representing in technical reviews and tenders.

- Communication: clear technical decks and documents for expert and non-expert audiences, and confident presenting to evaluators, customers and leadership.

- Funding & proposals: supporting grant, tender and funding submissions including technical write-ups and budget justification.