Second Order Effects · 1 day ago
Electrical Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $198K/yr
7+ years expSecond Order Effects (SOE) is an engineering consulting firm specializing in electrical, electromechanical, and embedded systems. The Electrical Engineering Manager will lead the electrical engineering discipline, ensuring technical decisions and team leadership align with business goals while fostering a collaborative environment.
AerospaceElectronicsHardware
No H1B
U.S. Citizen OnlyHiring Manager
Kaitlin Kearns
Responsibilities
Own EE 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 EE team, setting clear performance expectations, developing engineers’ technical and leadership skills, and building a strong, accountable engineering culture
Provide hands-on technical guidance across the full hardware development lifecycle, from requirements definition and architecture through design, integration, bring-up, and validation
Partner with business development and project leadership to define technical scope, execution plans, and success criteria, ensuring EE commitments are achievable and well-understood
Establish standards, processes, and best practices that improve EE design quality, consistency, and execution efficiency
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related field)
7+ years in an electrical engineering and hardware development role for aerospace, industrial automation, and/or robotics, especially for tightly coupled systems
5+ years of progressively impactful electrical engineering leadership roles
Aptitude for cross functional community building and collaboration with mechanical, software, systems and test engineers to improve the output of electrical engineering team
Expertise in successfully executing end-to-end electronics design from requirements generation through hardware bring-up
Strong communication skills; ability to synthesize and communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
Ability to evaluate and manage project risk, including scope creep, remediating missing critical requirements, and ensuring that technical challenges are sufficiently addressed
Applicant must be willing to work 40 hours a week on-site in Redmond, Washington, USA
Applicant must be eligible to work on export controlled projects
Applicant must be willing to travel to the Los Angeles, CA office
Job Type: Full-time (Salary)
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
Preferred
Master's degree (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Physics, or related field)
Experience in startup, tech, or consulting environments, managing multiple responsibilities simultaneously
Experience with client interaction for a complex technical product or service
Demonstrated experience in navigating ambiguous situations and delivery of difficult information to senior leadership, employees and clients
Benefits
Flexible work hours and work from home policy
100% employer-paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision) for employees + 50% dependent coverage
Unlimited paid time off policy, 11x paid company holidays, 12x paid sick days
401(k) retirement account and employer matching (Safe Harbor 4%)
Generous paid parental leave
Relocation assistance available if 50+ miles away from the office
Catered lunches, snacks, and accessible kitchen
Company
Second Order Effects
Second Order Effects is an engineering consultancy specializing in custom hardware and software development.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Dennis Fong
CEO, Co-Founder
Augustine Liu
Chief Operations Officer
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