Hardware/Electronics Manager

Advanced Navigation is one of the world's most ambitious innovators in AI robotics and navigation technology across land, air, sea and space. While our main headquarters are in Sydney, we have multiple research facilities in Australia and sales offices around the world. Since 2011, the company has experienced great success and has progressed into several deep, new technologies. Our fields of expertise include underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.

**Overview of Position**

Playing a critical role within our Research and Development team, our Hardware Manager leads the way in our next generation of navigation and robotics products. This role is responsible for managing a highly technical team, ensuring that projects run to time and deliver on their key performance specifications. Our Hardware Manager is also responsible for the design and development of electronics circuits for Advanced Navigation technologies utilising analogue signal processing and digital circuits. This role enables you to have a broad responsibility within a multidisciplinary team, to drive better design and project execution.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Lead a hardware team, setting technical direction and goals;
- Responsible for proposing, reviewing and supporting the design tools used by the team;
- Prepare and participate in performance reviews for their team;
- Drive continuous improvement in development practices, for example V&V automation and toolchain selection and maintenance;
- Establish and ensure that team-specific quality control practices and guidelines are created and followed;
- Mentor junior team members, interns etc. and help them progress professionally;
- Design of analogue signal chain processing circuits (filters, amplifiers, etc);
- Design of digital signal circuits, including high-speed interfaces;
- Develop mixed signal processing chains (ie A to D and D to A);
- PCB schematic design and layout, simulate and document circuits in LTSpice;
- Review and mentoring of other team members on methods and high-quality design practices;
- Collaborating with the software team to ensure designs are well-integrated;
- Designing circuits to interface to fiber optic communication components;
- Identify scope and schedule risks and address/raise them with management;
- Work with a high degree of autonomy, turning high level goals into executable work packages;
- Driving accountability within the team to ensure that timelines are met;
- Oversee your teams & talent productivity, building a highly inclusive culture ensuring team members thrive & Company outcomes are met;

**Qualifications, Skills & Experience**:

- Bachelor degree or higher in or electrical/electronic engineering
- 10+ years of experience in high-level electronics design roles and/or hardware management
- Experience managing small, highly technical teams
- Experience designing and developing complex electronics
- Significant experience developing precision analogue data acquisition and processing and high speed digital circuits
- Experience turning high level discussions into detailed, personal work package plans and reporting progress to management
- Structured problem solving and debugging skills
- Exposure to FPGA will be highly regarded
- Exposure to systems engineering principles and practices will be highly regarded
- Experience with photonics or navigation systems will be especially highly regarded
- Very high level of proficiency using industry-standard tools such as SPICE and Altium Designer
- Be highly motivated with an energetic, responsive and decisive disposition;
- Strong knowledge of WHS practices;
- Proven high standard of attention to detail, time management and "follow" approach

**What are some of the benefits you will have access to?
Apart from the above you will be doing your life's best work in a large, fun office in central Sydney close to all public transportation, with coffee and breakfast provided, to keep you going throughout the day.