Head of Drone Hardware

You will lead and scale the engineering organization responsible for drone hardware. You will own the hardware roadmap and architecture, guide designs through prototyping, flight testing, and production, lead failure investigations, build engineering processes and leadership, and work with customers on technical requirements and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and scale a multidisciplinary hardware engineering organization
• Own the drone hardware technical roadmap and architecture
• Set technical direction for hardware design tradeoffs
• Drive hardware projects from architecture and prototyping through high-volume production
• Establish engineering processes for committed customer deliverables
• Lead failure investigations and root-cause analysis
• Champion manufacturability, reliability, and field serviceability
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and individual contributors
• Align technical requirements and delivery with customers
• Partner with autonomy, software, program-management, and manufacturing leaders

Requirements

• 15+ years of hardware engineering experience
• 10+ years leading and scaling engineering teams or departments
• Mechanical engineering and product-design experience for ruggedized systems
• Experience taking hardware from concept and prototyping through high-volume production
• Design for Manufacturing and Design for Assembly expertise
• Hardware test and validation experience
• Experience building and scaling hardware engineering organizations
• Experience working directly with customers on technical requirements and delivery

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus