Hardware Architect

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the development of advanced monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions.
• Own the system and hardware architecture for complex embedded products.
• Define system-level requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical strategies.
• Allocate requirements across hardware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test disciplines.
• Partner closely with Firmware and Software Architects to ensure alignment of architectures.
• Drive system-level trade‑off decisions involving performance, reliability, accuracy, cybersecurity, manufacturability, and cost.
• Define sensing, signal acquisition, processing, communications, timing, storage, and power architectures for complex embedded systems.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical governance activities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop platform strategies that maximize technology reuse across multiple product families.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering, and product enhancement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through standards and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing embedded hardware products, with significant experience leading complex technical projects.
• Proven experience defining and delivering system architectures for embedded products from concept through production and lifecycle support.
• Strong understanding of mixed‑signal electronics, embedded processors, communications interfaces, networking technologies, and industrial instrumentation.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including requirements management, architecture decomposition, interface definition, verification strategy, and technical risk management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decision‑making across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience balancing technical, commercial, manufacturing, quality, and programme considerations.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to influence and guide engineering teams without direct line management responsibility.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in defining and delivering system architectures for complex embedded products, with a strong focus on mixed‑signal electronics, embedded processors, and systems engineering principles. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive technical decision‑making while ensuring alignment with commercial and manufacturing considerations.