Hardware Manager

Hardware Manager (Electronics)

Cambridge | 5 days on site

Salary dependent on experience

Making sure you fit the guidelines as an applicant for this role is essential, please read the below carefully.

Are you a hands-on technical leader with an electronics background?

Or a technically strong electronics engineer looking for more responsibility?

We’re looking for someone to lead and develop a high-performing Electronics Hardware team, delivering cutting-edge systems in the automotive sector. This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership with direct involvement in product design, from concept through to production - 80% hands on, 20% leadership.

What you’ll be doing:

You will lead, mentor, and challenge an electronics hardware team across multiple sites, driving high-level technical decisions, product roadmaps, and hardware architecture. You’ll take ownership of designs from concept to production, including schematics, layouts, and system-level integration, while collaborating closely with product owners, program managers, and other engineering teams to define milestones, requirements, and project plans.

You will work closely with manufacturing partners to optimise designs for cost and manufacturability, support continuous improvement, develop R&D concepts, ensure compliance with hardware design, testing, and manufacturing processes, and occasionally manage external hardware resources and travel to supplier or customer sites.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in electronic hardware design for highly regulated industries, ideally automotive.
• Strong grounding in ECU architecture, embedded systems, analogue & digital circuitry, and motor/solenoid electronics.
• Experience taking designs from architecture through to production, including validation, debugging, and design for qualification (EMC/environmental).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams. xwzovoh
• Leadership experience: mentoring, developing, and supporting engineers to deliver high-quality solutions (desirable)

Keen to express your interest, or find out more?

Option 1: Click the apply button (don’t worry, we’ll discuss your CV before submitting)

Option 2: Drop me a message on LinkedIn (Rachel Bush – SoCode Recruitment)