Avionics Hardware Lead

Who Are We?

At HyPrix, we're building transonic payload delivery systems for autonomy. Things that fly fast we're enabling them with conscious software. Replicating the capabilities of expensive conventional frontline systems we're building the cheapest micro cruise missile systems on the planet. Built for a war of attrition, built for the era of software-defined warfare, built to cater to the front lines of battlefields where no man should stand in the future. Learn more about us:

About the role

As the lead of Avionics Hardware, you will be taking ownership of architecting everything-electronics that will fly on our systems and more. All the way from on board flight computers, to bench test equipment. This role is both hands-on and strategic: you will design hardware solutions for extreme environments, and mentor and elevate our existing hardware engineers. We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Hardware Engineer to lead and drive the architecture, design, and implementation of hardware systems for our robotics/flight systems.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping how our hardware platform is designed, developed and tested, ensuring reliability from board-bring-up to mission execution, and driving best practices in system design, hardware resilience, manufacturability across the product lifecycle.

Core Responsibilities

1) System Architecture & Hardware Design

• Architect robust, scalable embedded hardware systems spanning sensing, computation, power management, actuation, and wireless communication subsystems.
  
• Define hardware module boundaries, interfaces, electrical specifications, and interaction contracts between boards and subsystems.
  
• Perform design trade-off analysis (performance, cost, power, reliability, EMI/EMC, manufacturability).
  
• Own system-level schematics, block diagrams, and interface definitions, and ensure alignment with firmware, controls, and mechanical teams.
  
• Build hardware architectures that scale across product variants and future revisions.
  

2) Hands-On Hardware Development

• Design and bring up custom PCBs (MCU/SoC-based boards, sensor boards, power boards, actuator drivers).
  
• Develop schematics and layouts involving:
  
  • Digital interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet
    
  • Analog front ends: IMUs, barometers, ADCs/DACs, power sensing
    
  • Power systems: DC-DC converters, LDOs, battery management, protection circuits
    
  • Wireless systems: GPS SoC Integration, Phased array antenna design, RF based telemetry system integration
    
  • High-reliability connectors, ESD/EMI protection, and isolation where required
    
• Take boards from concept to bring-up:
  
  • Requirement capture to understand what is needed from the hardware
    
  • Design, analyze, simulate complex designs, and perform DFx checks
    
  • Power sequencing, clocking, reset behaviour, boot configuration
    
  • Debug board issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers
    
  • Validate signal integrity, power integrity, and timing margins
    
• Support firmware teams during early bring-up with register-level debug, pin-muxing, and interface validation.
  

3) System-Level Validation & Reliability

• Define and execute hardware validation and verification plans:
  
  • Electrical characterization
    
  • Environmental, thermal, vibration, and stress testing
    
  • EMI/EMC pre-compliance testing
    
• Establish manufacturing and test strategies:
  
  • DFT/DFM considerations
    
  • Board-level test points, boundary scan, and production test fixtures
    
• Own failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions from lab through field deployments.
  
• Maintain comprehensive documentation: schematics, layout guidelines, test reports, BOMs, and revision histories.
  

4) Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead hardware design reviews, roadmap planning, and technical risk assessments.
  
• Work closely with:
  
  • Firmware teams for bring-up, interface validation, and performance tuning
    
  • Controls and systems teams to ensure sensors, compute, and actuation meet algorithmic requirements
    
  • Mechanical teams for enclosure constraints, thermal design, connectors, and vibration robustness
    
  • Manufacturing and operations teams for supplier selection, cost optimization, and scale-up
    
• Interface with external vendors and silicon partners for MCUs, sensors, RF modules, power components, and manufacturing houses.
  
• Mentor junior and mid-level hardware engineers in schematic design, layout best practices, debugging, and validation discipline.
  

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional hardware engineering experience with a strong hands-on track record.
  
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• Knowledge of relevant standards such as IPC, EMI/EMC standards, DO-254, ISO 26262, or STANAG is a strong plus.
  
• Natural mentorship, and the ability to work with existing junior hardware design engineers.
  
• Strong background in sensor integration, power electronics, and mixed-signal design.
  
• Proven experience taking custom hardware from first prototype through production.
  
• Familiarity with safety-critical or regulated environments (e.g., aerospace, automotive, defense).
  
• Natural mentor with strong communication skills and ability to align cross-functional teams.
  

Should you really join us?

If you like learning, if you like figuring things out by yourself without others telling you how to do it - and thrive under work pressure to ship missiles - then this is for you. Join us to take ownership of your work. We are a lean team - there is no rule book to what we're doing. You have an end goal - which is based on a real product - and you need to get it done your own way. It's hard, and we all love it here.