Lead Electronics Engineer

Lead Electronics Engineer

Cambridge | 5 days on site

Salary dependent on experience

Are you a hands-onelectronics engineer looking to grow their career as a manager? Do you have existing experience managing small teams? Do you have a passion for the automotive industry?

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 – 70% hands on, 30% leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and challenge an electronics hardware team across multiple sites, driving high-level technical decisions, product roadmaps, and hardware architecture.
• Take ownership of designs from concept to production, including schematics, layouts, and system-level integration.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, program managers, and other engineering teams to define milestones, requirements, and project plans.
• Work closely with manufacturing partners to optimise designs for cost and manufacturability, support continuous improvement, develop R&D concepts, and ensure compliance with hardware design, testing, and manufacturing processes.
• Occasionally manage external hardware resources and travel to supplier or customer sites.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Leadership experience: mentoring, developing, and supporting engineers to deliver high-quality solutions (desirable).
• Note: sponsorship is not available for this role.

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