Principal Electronics Engineer

What you'll do

Our beam-steering antennas need electronics that move, sense and control with precision, and we need someone to own them. You'll take our control electronics from requirements through design, bring-up and verification to product release. That covers the hardware, actuator drive, sensing and power that make our technology work. It's a senior individual contributor role: you'll be the technical lead for electronics, hands-on at the bench, and working closely with antenna, mechanical, software and systems engineering.

• Design analogue, digital and mixed-signal hardware for our antenna products
• Build architectures for antenna control, sensing and calibration
• Develop drive electronics for piezoelectric and stepper-motor positioning systems
• Design signal conditioning, power regulation and interfaces
• Own complex multilayer PCBs from schematic to production, working with layout, fab and assembly partners
• Bring up, debug and characterise boards in the lab, then feed what you learn back into the design
• Support EMC, environmental and qualification testing
• Mentor junior engineers as the team grows, and help shape how we do electronics here

What you'll bring

• Around 5-10 years developing electronic hardware products
• A track record of taking hardware from concept through PCB design, prototype, integration and verification
• Solid analogue, digital and mixed-signal design experience
• Embedded hardware experience with microcontrollers and FPGAs, including hands-on FPGA design and implementation
• Complex multilayer PCB design: controlled impedance, grounding, signal and power integrity
• Power supply and distribution design for embedded systems
• Confident bring-up, debugging and lab work with scopes, logic analysers and spectrum analysers
• Fluency in Altium, OrCAD, Cadence or similar
• A good grasp of EMC, DFM and DFT
• A degree in electronic or electrical engineering or a related discipline
• You're comfortable owning decisions when things are still taking shape

Bonus points if...

• You've worked on electromechanical, actuator or precision positioning systems
• You've designed piezo drive or stepper-motor control electronics
• You've built precision sensing for position, displacement or temperature, including ADC/DAC interfaces
• You write VHDL or Verilog
• You've done high-speed digital and SI analysis
• You've worked on RF or microwave product electronics
• You've worked on radar, satcom or antenna control systems
• You've delivered low-SWaP embedded systems
• You've worked on defence, aerospace or high-reliability products
• You've managed external PCB or manufacturing partners
• You've worked in a start-up or fast-paced product team

About us

KVector is building breakthrough beam-steering antenna technology for the next generation of communications and radar systems.

Our proprietary Dynamic MetaSurface (DMS) tech makes phased-array performance lighter, lower-power and more scalable - across X to E band and beyond.

What you'll get

The chance to set the standard for electronics at a deeptech company early on

We welcome people from all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking, and actively seek out diverse perspectives. If you need any support or adjustments during the application process, please reach out to us - we’re here to help.