Electrical Hardware Engineer

About Us -------- _"Seeing Systems is building autonomous drone systems that can perceive, navigate, and act intelligently in complex real-world environments."_ We're **advancing autonomy** through monocular vision, sensor fusion, and robust system design - drones that keep working where traditional systems fail, supported by an agentic stack that reduces operator cognitive load. Our first product is an **FPV-class drone** built from the ground up with a **modular hardware architecture**. If we get the first platform right, we can move fast on everything else: larger airframes, longer range, new payloads, and new mission profiles without rebuilding the stack each time. We were founded by brothers **Matthew and Alexander Le Maitre**. Matthew is a former Jane Street engineer and Cambridge CS graduate with a background in autonomous systems research. Alexander is a self-taught hardware engineer who has been building unmanned systems and military-grade electronics. We're an early-stage, fast-moving team working at the intersection of robotics, perception, and real-world deployment. We iterate weekly. We test in real environments. * * * The Role -------- You will design, build, and test the electronics inside our platforms as a core member of our growing hardware team. That means **hands-on electrical engineering work** across our aircraft and ground stations: PCB design and layout, board bring-up, power systems, harnessing, sensor integration, and test support. You'll take ownership of defined subsystems and see them through from schematic to a working board on a flying aircraft. You'll **report to our Founding Hardware Engineer** and work closely with Alex, our co-founder and hardware lead. This is a role for an engineer early in their career who wants to grow fast: you'll be given real responsibility, real deadlines, and real feedback from the field, with senior engineers beside you at the bench. **Within 30 days:** you've assembled, brought up, and debugged boards on one of our platforms and joined a field test. **Within 90 days:** you've taken a subsystem board from schematic through layout to a validated revision flying on one of our drones. * * * What You'll Do -------------- * **Design PCBs** for defined subsystems under the direction of the Founding Hardware Engineer: sensor boards, power distribution, BMS, payload interfaces, and supporting electronics. * **Own board bring-up and debug** for your subsystems: soldering, rework, test fixtures, and fault-finding down to component level. * **Support schematic capture and layout** across the wider hardware stack, including design reviews, signal and power integrity checks, and documentation. * **Design and build harnessing**: connector selection, wiring, and integration of electronics into airframes and ground station hardware. * **Support RF and wireless testing**: telemetry, video downlink, and command & control range testing in the field. * **Run test campaigns** with our testing lead: prepare aircraft, capture data, log failures, and feed findings back into the next revision. * **Work with manufacturers** on quotes, DFM feedback, and incoming inspection as we scale production. * **Use AI tools** to accelerate design, firmware, and debug. * * * What We're Looking For ---------------------- * Minimum 2 years of hands-on electrical or electronics engineering experience (professional, or a genuinely equivalent portfolio of shipped personal projects). * PCB design experience in Altium or KiCad - you've taken at least one board from schematic to fabricated, working hardware. * Solid grounding in analog, digital, and power electronics fundamentals. * Confident at the bench: soldering (including fine-pitch rework), oscilloscopes, multimeters, and methodical fault-finding. * Comfortable with the gap between "works on the bench" and "works at range in the field." * Bias toward shipping. * Comfortable getting outside and testing in the real world with us. * * * Nice to Have ------------ * Defence, aerospace, or UAV industry experience. * Personal experience building and flying drones, robots, or other unmanned systems. * Embedded work with STM32-class MCUs and protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, CAN, and Ethernet. * Exposure to RF/wireless design or antenna integration. * C/C++ firmware for board bring-up and diagnostics. * EMI/EMC awareness and pre-compliance testing. * Early-stage startup experience. * * * Why Join -------- * Real ownership of subsystems from day one, with senior engineers invested in your growth. * Fast iteration: hardware in operators' hands in months, not years. * Small, high-agency team with a direct line from idea to field test. * Real deployment pressure, real feedback, real learning. * A clear path to grow into broader hardware ownership as the team scales. * Snack of choice stocked in the workshop.