Director of Electrical Engineering

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Salary Range: $190,000–$200,000 annually

Bonus: 6%–8% annual bonus

Travel: Occasional domestic shoreside travel

This company is seeking an experienced Director of Electrical Design to provide technical leadership and people management for a team developing next-generation, high-reliability telecommunications hardware. This position will have approximately 6–8 direct reports and is ideal for an accomplished electrical design leader who combines deep hands‑on engineering expertise with the ability to lead and develop a technical team.

Analog circuit and electrical design expertise is at the core of this position. The Director must be a highly experienced electrical engineer who understands hardware development at a detailed level and can lead products from initial concept and architecture through PCB/PCBA development, prototyping, testing, qualification, manufacturing transfer, and production
. This is not solely a people‑management position. The Director must be technically strong and comfortable going into the lab, reviewing circuit designs, troubleshooting hardware, analyzing failures, and helping the engineering team solve difficult technical problems.

The successful candidate will bring 10+ years of telecommunications industry experience
, strong senior‑level electrical design experience, and demonstrated experience leading engineers. Candidates may currently be Directors, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, or Lead Engineers who have successfully led technical teams and are ready to grow into a Director‑level position.

The Director will be expected to anticipate technical challenges, identify risks early, develop mitigation strategies, and drive technical decision‑making across the complete product‑development lifecycle.

• Lead and develop a team of approximately 6–8 electrical engineers and technical professionals
  , providing technical direction, mentorship, performance management, and career development.
• Provide end‑to‑end technical leadership from initial product concept through manufacturing and production
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• Lead the development of complex, high‑reliability electrical hardware and PCB/PCBA designs for telecommunications products.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for analog circuit design
  , while also providing leadership across digital circuitry and integrated electrical systems.
• Own and oversee the end‑to‑end PCB/PCBA development process
  , including architecture, schematic design, component selection, layout coordination, prototyping, fabrication, assembly, testing, qualification, and manufacturing transfer.
• Remain actively involved in engineering development and be comfortable working hands‑on in the laboratory to troubleshoot circuit, board, component, and system‑level issues.
• Lead design reviews, architecture reviews, technical‑readiness assessments, and engineering problem‑solving activities.
• Guide engineers through circuit simulation, prototyping, design verification, qualification, reliability testing, and root‑cause investigations.
• Partner closely with manufacturing to ensure hardware designs are producible, testable, scalable, and successfully transitioned into production
  .
• Lead technical troubleshooting of production and laboratory failures, including analysis of electrical and manufacturing test data.
• Provide technical leadership across electrical, optical, mechanical, firmware, systems, test, and manufacturing engineering teams.
• Develop hardware incorporating advanced electrical and electro‑optical technologies used in high‑reliability telecommunications products.
• Establish engineering priorities, allocate resources, and ensure project milestones and technical deliverables are achieved.
• Identify…