Principal / Lead System Engineer | Deep-Tech | HW-SW Systems

A fast-growing Deep-Tech startup is seeking a Principal-level System Engineering Lead for a highly hands-on, technically dominant role in complex, mission-critical systems.

This is not a coordination or documentation role.

You will own the entire system lifecycle, from architecture and requirements through integration, experiments, and system-level decisions, working at the core of a multidisciplinary R&D organization.

🔸 Own end-to-end system engineering for complex hardware-software systems and systems of systems

🔸 Serve as the single technical authority across Algorithms, Software, Embedded, RF, Sensors, and Hardware

🔸 Define and evolve system architecture, interfaces, and requirements in ambiguous environments

🔸 Lead system integration, bring-up, testing, and experimental campaigns

🔸 Make hard system-level trade-offs under real constraints (performance, risk, schedule, physics)

🔸 Drive root-cause analysis and system debugging across domains

🔸 Rapidly dive into new technological domains without hand-holding

🔸 You have 15+ years of hands-on system engineering in complex HW-SW systems

🔸 You have deep, practical experience with Sensors and/or RF systems (not theoretical, not managerial only)

🔸 You have personally led system integration and experimental work, not only reviews

🔸 You hold an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Physics

🔸 You are comfortable being the final technical decision-maker

🔸 You thrive in high ambiguity, low process, deep-tech environments

• Your experience is mostly software-only
• Your system role was mainly documentation / coordination / process
• You are looking for a people-management-first position