Senior Engineering Manager, Electrical & Embedded Engineering

• →Define the long-term technical vision and capability roadmap for both the electrical engineering and embedded software disciplines
• →Own electrical and embedded technical decisions and outcomes across projects, serving as the escalation point for critical design tradeoffs, technical risk, and delivery challenges
• →Lead, mentor, and manage the electrical and embedded teams, setting clear performance expectations, developing their technical and leadership skills, and building a strong, accountable engineering culture
• →Identify strategic capability gaps and develop standards, processes, and best practices to improve design quality, consistency, and execution efficiency
• →Partner with Business Development and project leadership to define technical scope, execution plans, and success criteria
• →Attract and retain electrical and embedded talent by reinforcing SOE’s first-principles engineering philosophy

• →Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• →10+ years electrical engineering, embedded systems, and hardware development for aerospace, renewable energy, medical devices, or similar industries 
• →7+ years in engineering design leadership and people management roles
• →Strong management capabilities; ability to identify and grow talent, build a sense of community within a team, and improve the output of other engineers
• →Expertise in successfully executing end-to-end electrical and embedded systems design from requirements generation and architecture through software and hardware bring-up
• →Exceptional communication skills; ability to synthesize and communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
• →Ability to manage technical risk, scope, and delivery across multiple projects

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Engineering Management, or a related field
• Previous experience in a consulting or customer-facing role
• Experience designing PCBs for high-reliability applications
• Proven hands-on experience designing and implementing software development processes (SDLC, SecDevOps, CI/CD) including evaluating, selecting, and configuring supporting toolchains and infrastructure to establish scalable development workflows
• Demonstrated experience in navigating ambiguous situations and delivery of difficult information to senior leadership, employees and clients 

• Applicant must be willing to work 40 hours a week in El Segundo, California, USA
• Applicant must be eligible to work on export controlled projects
• Job Type: Full-time (Salary)

Export Control Requirements:
To conform with U.S. Government export control regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply!
Second Order Effects is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SOE is governed on the basis of excellence and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.