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As the Team Lead for Magnetic Navigation Systems, you will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for developing and delivering advanced navigation systems.\nWe are engineering novel navigation systems from scratch, integrating custom sensor heads, controllers, real-time computer hardware, to deliver a product. This role requires a technically grounded, decisive leader who commands the respect of world-class domain experts, bridges cross-team handoffs cleanly, and drives focused execution through others.\nYou do not need a background in quantum physics. We value deep-tech experience, strong engineering fundamentals, operational discipline, and a proven ability to lead execution across interdependent teams.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nDrive execution and pace: Own the team’s delivery cadence, translating high-level product goals and cross-department initiatives into structured, measurable execution milestones. 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Connect company, division, and department priorities directly to team objectives, ensuring engineering efforts solve the right problems at the right level without unnecessary complexity.\nEstablish technical buy-in: Facilitate rigorous technical debates, build strong consensus among senior specialists, and drive unified commitment to execution plans.\nCoach and develop talent: Manage, mentor, and support direct reports across engineering levels, provide continuous coaching, conduct performance reviews, and build a high-accountability and psychologically safe team environment.\nLeadership partnership: Partner with Product Managers on scope trade-offs and Technical Leads on architectural integrity, ensuring aggressive multi-team delivery targets maintain uncompromising technical standards.\nIdeally you'll have:\nDeep-tech systems track record: Demonstrated experience delivering complex hardware-software products designed from the ground up in deep-tech, robotics, defense, or advanced engineering environments.\nCross-functional and inter-team collaboration: Proven success working alongside peer engineering leads, coordinating technical dependencies, and aligning multi-team deliverables toward overarching departmental goals. 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