# Principal Hardware Engineer, Technical Lead

As principal hardware engineer and technical lead, you will build and lead ANDREW’s hardware engineering team in Suzhou. You will own hardware design and technical decisions for assigned products in our digital distributed antenna system (DAS), small cell and O-RAN radio unit (O-RU) portfolio. You will be the primary technical interface with external engineering partners, setting requirements, reviewing their work and approving designs. This is a hands-on leadership role for an engineer who wants to shape a new team and work closely with global system engineering, FPGA and software colleagues. Responsibilities: Own hardware architecture, design reviews and technical decisions for assigned DAS, small cell and O-RU products. Build ANDREW’s hardware engineering capability in Suzhou, including hiring, mentoring and setting engineering practices. Lead knowledge transfer from established global engineering teams, and capture design rationale, best practices and lessons learned. Serve as the primary technical interface with external engineering partners: define requirements, review deliverables and approve designs. Oversee radio frequency (RF), digital, power, printed circuit board (PCB)

- **Id**: 3881632
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/andrew-principal-hardware-engineer-technical-lead>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Suzhou, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T06:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:30:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1894
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mobile Networks, Network Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 13262
- **Name**: Andrew
- **Domain**: andrew.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/andrew>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:19:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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