Job Description
Job Title: Lead Hardware Engineer
Location: Bangalore, India
Business: Honeywell Aerospace
Role Overview
Honeywell Aerospace is seeking a
Lead Hardware Engineer with strong experience in avionics-based product development to lead the end-to-end design and integration of advanced analog / power electronics systems. This role supports aerospace and urban air mobility programs and demands deep technical expertise, systems-level thinking, and leadership capability. The successful candidate will mentor engineering teams, resolve complex technical challenges, and work closely with global stakeholders to deliver high-quality, compliant products across the full development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end development and system integration of advanced power electronics hardware for aerospace and urban air mobility applications.
- Define hardware specifications and requirements, ensuring alignment with system, customer, and regulatory needs.
- Drive system-level design decisions, addressing complex challenges such as thermal management, EMI/EMC, functional safety, and high-reliability operation.
- Conduct hardware and system design reviews with a strong focus on integration, scalability, reuse strategy, DFX considerations, and computing architecture development.
- Own and ensure execution of development and verification plans, including electrical, functional, and environmental compliance per DO-160 standards.
- Validate design concepts through circuit simulation, prototyping, laboratory testing, and analysis.
- Ensure program milestones are met by working closely with project engineers and cross-functional teams.
- Support product and module development activities, including trade studies, requirements development, detailed design, analysis, and lab-based testing.
- Collaborate with global, multi-disciplinary teams spanning systems, software, programmable logic, and mechanical engineering.
- Interface with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, to ensure products meet technical and contractual requirements.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, ensuring adherence to established engineering standards, best practices, and quality processes.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence, while guiding future product evolution.
Qualifications
Desired Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Power Electronics.
- 15+ years of hardware engineering experience, with significant exposure to avionics and power electronics product development.
- Strong understanding of closed-loop control systems for power converters, including compensator design.
- Solid system-level design expertise, with the ability to manage complex interactions across hardware, software, and mechanical domains.
- Track record of leading and managing multiple power electronics projects involving analog, digital, and control circuitry.
- Experience in EMI/EMC design, including filter design and grounding schema.
- Proficiency with Siemens EDA / Mentor Graphics (Xpedition Enterprise Design Flow or equivalent), LT-Spice, Mathcad, and MS Excel.
- Strong circuit debugging, troubleshooting, and laboratory skills.
- Experience with product-level analog and linear circuit design, including signal conditioning (preferred).
- Ability to produce high-quality technical documentation, including hardware requirements, design specifications, test specifications, and board-level design documentation.
- Strong knowledge of component selection, derating, and system integration in safety-critical environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams.
- A results-oriented team player who takes ownership, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is motivated to lead and grow a team of power electronics engineers.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Honeywell Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and empowered to succeed.
