{"id":1245401,"url":"https://alion.io/job/seeing-systems-electrical-hardware-engineer","title":"Electrical Hardware Engineer","company":{"id":3779732,"name":"Seeing Systems","domain":"seeing-systems.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/seeing-systems","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Work at a Startup","truth_index":null},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":30000,"max":45000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":59611},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"KiCad","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"C++","optional":true},{"name":"Sensor Fusion","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T17:23:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T00:04:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Us\n\"Seeing Systems is building autonomous drone systems that can perceive, navigate, and act intelligently in complex real-world environments.\"\nWe'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.\nOur 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.\nWe 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.\nWe'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.\nThe Role\nYou will design, build, and test the electronics inside our platforms as a core member of our growing hardware team.\nThat 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.\nYou'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.\nWithin 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign PCBs for defined subsystems under the direction of the Founding Hardware Engineer: sensor boards, power distribution, BMS, payload interfaces, and supporting electronics.\n\nOwn board bring-up and debug for your subsystems: soldering, rework, test fixtures, and fault-finding down to component level.\n\nSupport schematic capture and layout across the wider hardware stack, including design reviews, signal and power integrity checks, and documentation.\n\nDesign and build harnessing: connector selection, wiring, and integration of electronics into airframes and ground station hardware.\n\nSupport RF and wireless testing: telemetry, video downlink, and command & control range testing in the field.\n\nRun test campaigns with our testing lead: prepare aircraft, capture data, log failures, and feed findings back into the next revision.\n\nWork with manufacturers on quotes, DFM feedback, and incoming inspection as we scale production.\n\nUse AI tools to accelerate design, firmware, and debug.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nMinimum 2 years of hands-on electrical or electronics engineering experience (professional, or a genuinely equivalent portfolio of shipped personal projects).\nPCB design experience in Altium or KiCad - you've taken at least one board from schematic to fabricated, working hardware.\nSolid grounding in analog, digital, and power electronics fundamentals.\nConfident at the bench: soldering (including fine-pitch rework), oscilloscopes, multimeters, and methodical fault-finding.\nComfortable with the gap between \"works on the bench\" and \"works at range in the field.\"\nBias toward shipping.\nComfortable getting outside and testing in the real world with us.\nNice to Have\nDefence, aerospace, or UAV industry experience.\nPersonal experience building and flying drones, robots, or other unmanned systems.\nEmbedded work with STM32-class MCUs and protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, CAN, and Ethernet.\nExposure to RF/wireless design or antenna integration.\nC/C++ firmware for board bring-up and diagnostics.\nEMI/EMC awareness and pre-compliance testing.\nEarly-stage startup experience.\nWhy Join\nReal ownership of subsystems from day one, with senior engineers invested in your growth.\nFast iteration: hardware in operators' hands in months, not years.\nSmall, high-agency team with a direct line from idea to field test.\nReal deployment pressure, real feedback, real learning.\nA clear path to grow into broader hardware ownership as the team scales.\nSnack of choice stocked in the workshop.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4639,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Drones & UAVs","Military Drones"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T17:23:59Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T04:03:07Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":59611,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/seeing-systems-electrical-hardware-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/seeing-systems-electrical-hardware-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T04:03:07Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4385,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":615,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}