Director of Electrical Engineering
Lumicity, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Director of Electrical & RF Engineering
Los Angeles County, CA
Full-time | On-site | Relocation assistance provided
Make your application after reading the following skill and qualification requirements for this position.
Why Join Us
My client is a high-growth aerospace and defense-tech company developing advanced autonomous hardware platforms for mission-critical applications. The team has scaled quickly over the past year and is now looking to bring on a senior electrical engineering leader to guide hardware architecture, strengthen engineering execution, and build deeper internal capability around RF/wireless systems, EMI/EMC, and platform-level integration.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at the system architecture level, guide board-level electrical design, mentor teams, and grow the organization's electrical and RF engineering practices.
What You'll Own
Lead and scale a growing electrical engineering team while building internal RF systems capability from the ground up.
Identify team gaps, shape hiring needs, and strengthen ownership, documentation, and technical decision-making.
Guide electrical design across complex embedded hardware, including PCBAs, power, compute, sensors, interconnects, and system-level integration.
Ensure hardware designs are reliable, manufacturable, testable, and ready to move from prototype into production.
Bring working knowledge of RF, radio communications, antennas, link performance, and wireless integration into hardware architecture decisions.
Help build stronger internal capability around signal performance, interference, range, and real-world communications reliability.
Drive disciplined validation across electrical and RF systems, including lab testing, field testing, debug, and design improvement.
Support EMI/EMC, signal integrity, pre-compliance, environmental testing, and related design-for-compliance efforts.
Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve system-level tradeoffs and integration issues.
Communicate technical risks, priorities, and resource needs clearly across engineering and leadership teams.
Ideal Background
Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field.
10+ years in electrical engineering, hardware engineering, or electrical systems development for complex embedded/electromechanical products.
5+ years leading engineers, technical teams, or cross-functional hardware programs.
Strong working knowledge of PCBAs, schematic review, board bring-up, embedded electronics, power architecture, sensors, compute, and system integration.
Experience taking hardware through development, test, iteration, validation, and production release.
Working exposure to RF/wireless systems, including radio integration, antennas, link performance, signal reliability, or communications hardware.
Comfortable making system-level architecture decisions while still going deep enough to review designs, troubleshoot issues, and guide technical execution.
Track record building team structure, improving engineering processes, and mentoring technical leads in fast-moving environments.
Background in aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, robotics, eVTOL, med robotics, or other complex hardware products.
Exposure to EMI/EMC, signal integrity, grounding/shielding, pre-compliance, or certification-driven hardware development. xywuqvp
ITAR Clause
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable.
Los Angeles County, CA
Full-time | On-site | Relocation assistance provided
Make your application after reading the following skill and qualification requirements for this position.
Why Join Us
My client is a high-growth aerospace and defense-tech company developing advanced autonomous hardware platforms for mission-critical applications. The team has scaled quickly over the past year and is now looking to bring on a senior electrical engineering leader to guide hardware architecture, strengthen engineering execution, and build deeper internal capability around RF/wireless systems, EMI/EMC, and platform-level integration.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at the system architecture level, guide board-level electrical design, mentor teams, and grow the organization's electrical and RF engineering practices.
What You'll Own
Lead and scale a growing electrical engineering team while building internal RF systems capability from the ground up.
Identify team gaps, shape hiring needs, and strengthen ownership, documentation, and technical decision-making.
Guide electrical design across complex embedded hardware, including PCBAs, power, compute, sensors, interconnects, and system-level integration.
Ensure hardware designs are reliable, manufacturable, testable, and ready to move from prototype into production.
Bring working knowledge of RF, radio communications, antennas, link performance, and wireless integration into hardware architecture decisions.
Help build stronger internal capability around signal performance, interference, range, and real-world communications reliability.
Drive disciplined validation across electrical and RF systems, including lab testing, field testing, debug, and design improvement.
Support EMI/EMC, signal integrity, pre-compliance, environmental testing, and related design-for-compliance efforts.
Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve system-level tradeoffs and integration issues.
Communicate technical risks, priorities, and resource needs clearly across engineering and leadership teams.
Ideal Background
Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field.
10+ years in electrical engineering, hardware engineering, or electrical systems development for complex embedded/electromechanical products.
5+ years leading engineers, technical teams, or cross-functional hardware programs.
Strong working knowledge of PCBAs, schematic review, board bring-up, embedded electronics, power architecture, sensors, compute, and system integration.
Experience taking hardware through development, test, iteration, validation, and production release.
Working exposure to RF/wireless systems, including radio integration, antennas, link performance, signal reliability, or communications hardware.
Comfortable making system-level architecture decisions while still going deep enough to review designs, troubleshoot issues, and guide technical execution.
Track record building team structure, improving engineering processes, and mentoring technical leads in fast-moving environments.
Background in aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, robotics, eVTOL, med robotics, or other complex hardware products.
Exposure to EMI/EMC, signal integrity, grounding/shielding, pre-compliance, or certification-driven hardware development. xywuqvp
ITAR Clause
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable.