Senior Avionics Lead Engineer

Who Are We?

At HyPrix, we're building supersonic payload delivery systems for autonomy. Things flying faster than the speed of sound - we are enabling them with cheap hardware. Replicating the capabilities of expensive conventional frontline systems - we are building micro missiles and precision guidance kits for mass manufacturability in the  4 figure price range. Built for a war of attrition, build for the era of software defined warfare, built to cater to the front lines of battlefields - where no man should stand in the future. Learn more about us: https://hyprix.in

About the role

This role is both hands -on and strategic: you will design hardware solutions for extreme environments, and mentor and elevate our existing hardware engineers. We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Hardware Engineer to lead and drive the architecture, design, and implementation of hardware systems for our robotics/flight systems.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping how our hardware platform is designed, developed and tested, ensuring reliability from board -bring -up to mission execution, and driving best practices in system design, hardware resilience, manufacturability across the product lifecycle.

Core Responsibilities

1) System Architecture & Hardware Design

• Architect robust, scalable embedded hardware systems spanning sensing, computation, power management, actuation, and wireless communication subsystems.
  
• Define hardware module boundaries, interfaces, electrical specifications, and interaction contracts between boards and subsystems.
  
• Perform design trade -off analysis (performance, cost, power, reliability, EMI/EMC, manufacturability).
  
• Own system -level schematics, block diagrams, and interface definitions, and ensure alignment with firmware, controls, and mechanical teams.
  
• Build hardware architectures that scale across product variants and future revisions.
  

2) Hands -On Hardware Development

• Design and bring up custom PCBs (MCU/SoC -based boards, sensor boards, power boards, actuator drivers).
  
• Develop schematics and layouts involving:
  • Digital interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet
    
  • Analog front ends: IMUs, barometers, ADCs/DACs, power sensing
    
  • Power systems: DC -DC converters, LDOs, battery management, protection circuits
    
  • Wireless systems: GPS SoC Integration, Phased array antenna design, RF based telemetry system integration
    
  • High -reliability connectors, ESD/EMI protection, and isolation where required
    
• Take boards from concept to bring -up:
  • Requirement capture to understand what is needed from the hardware
    
  • Design, analyze, simulate complex designs, and perform DFx checks
    
  • Power sequencing, clocking, reset behaviour, boot configuration
    
  • Debug board issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers
    
  • Validate signal integrity, power integrity, and timing margins
    
• Support firmware teams during early bring -up with register -level debug, pin -muxing, and interface validation.
  

3) System -Level Validation & Reliability

• Define and execute hardware validation and verification plans:
  • Electrical characterization
    
  • Environmental, thermal, vibration, and stress testing
    
  • EMI/EMC pre -compliance testing
    
• Establish manufacturing and test strategies:
  • DFT/DFM considerations
    
  • Board -level test points, boundary scan, and production test fixtures
    
• Own failure analysis, root -cause investigations, and corrective actions from lab through field deployments.
  
• Maintain comprehensive documentation: schematics, layout guidelines, test reports, BOMs, and revision histories.
  

4) Cross -Functional Collaboration

• Lead hardware design reviews, roadmap planning, and technical risk assessments.
  
• Work closely with:
  • Firmware teams for bring -up, interface validation, and performance tuning
    
  • Controls and systems teams to ensure sensors, compute, and actuation meet algorithmic requirements
    
  • Mechanical teams for enclosure constraints, thermal design, connectors, and vibration robustness
    
  • Manufacturing and operations teams for supplier selection, cost optimization, and scale -up
    
• Interface with external vendors and silicon partners for MCUs, sensors, RF modules, power components, and manufacturing houses.
  
• Mentor junior and mid -level hardware engineers in schematic design, layout best practices, debugging, and validation discipline.
  

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional hardware engineering experience with a strong hands -on track record.
  
• Experience designing hardware for robotics, drones, flight control systems, or high -reliability embedded platforms.
  
• Natural mentorship, and the ability to work with existing junior hardware design engineers.
  
• Strong background in sensor integration, power electronics, and mixed -signal design.
  
• Proven experience taking custom hardware from first prototype through production.
  
• Familiarity with safety -critical or regulated environments (e.g., aerospace, automotive, defense).
  
• Knowledge of relevant standards such as IPC, EMI/EMC standards, DO -254, ISO 26262, or STANAG is a strong plus.
  
• Natural mentor with strong communication skills and ability to align cross -functional teams.
  

Should you really join us?

If you like learning, if you like figuring things out by yourself without others telling you how to do it - and thrive under work pressure to ship missiles - then this is for you. Join us to take ownership of your work. We are a lean team - there is no rule book to what we're doing. You have an end goal - which is based on a real product - and you need to get it done your own way. It's hard, and we all love it here.