Who Are We?

At HyPrix, we're building supersonic payload delivery systems for autonomy. Things flying faster than the speed of sound - we are enabling them with cheap hardware. Replicating the capabilities of expensive conventional frontline systems - we are building micro missiles and precision guidance kits for mass manufacturability in the 4 figure price range. Built for a war of attrition, build for the era of software defined warfare, built to cater to the front lines of battlefields - where no man should stand in the future. Learn more about us: https://hyprix.in

About the role

This role is both hands -on and strategic: you will design hardware solutions for extreme environments, and mentor and elevate our existing hardware engineers. We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Hardware Engineer to lead and drive the architecture, design, and implementation of hardware systems for our robotics/flight systems.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping how our hardware platform is designed, developed and tested, ensuring reliability from board -bring -up to mission execution, and driving best practices in system design, hardware resilience, manufacturability across the product lifecycle.

Core Responsibilities


1) System Architecture & Hardware Design


- Architect robust, scalable embedded hardware systems spanning sensing, computation, power management, actuation, and wireless communication subsystems.

- Define hardware module boundaries, interfaces, electrical specifications, and interaction contracts between boards and subsystems.

- Perform design trade -off analysis (performance, cost, power, reliability, EMI/EMC, manufacturability).

- Own system -level schematics, block diagrams, and interface definitions, and ensure alignment with firmware, controls, and mechanical teams.

- Build hardware architectures that scale across product variants and future revisions.


2) Hands -On Hardware Development

- Design and bring up custom PCBs (MCU/SoC -based boards, sensor boards, power boards, actuator drivers).

- Develop schematics and layouts involving:




- Digital interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet

- Analog front ends: IMUs, barometers, ADCs/DACs, power sensing

- Power systems: DC -DC converters, LDOs, battery management, protection circuits

- Wireless systems: GPS SoC Integration, Phased array antenna design, RF based telemetry system integration

- High -reliability connectors, ESD/EMI protection, and isolation where required

- Take boards from concept to bring -up:
- Requirement capture to understand what is needed from the hardware

- Design, analyze, simulate complex designs, and perform DFx checks

- Power sequencing, clocking, reset behaviour, boot configuration

- Debug board issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers

- Validate signal integrity, power integrity, and timing margins

- Support firmware teams during early bring -up with register -level debug, pin -muxing, and interface validation.


3) System -Level Validation & Reliability

- Define and execute hardware validation and verification plans:
- Electrical characterization

- Environmental, thermal, vibration, and stress testing

- EMI/EMC pre -compliance testing

- Establish manufacturing and test strategies:
- DFT/DFM considerations

- Board -level test points, boundary scan, and production test fixtures

- Own failure analysis, root -cause investigations, and corrective actions from lab through field deployments.

- Maintain comprehensive documentation: schematics, layout guidelines, test reports, BOMs, and revision histories.


4) Cross -Functional Collaboration

- Lead hardware design reviews, roadmap planning, and technical risk assessments.





- Work closely with:
- Firmware teams for bring -up, interface validation, and performance tuning

- Controls and systems teams to ensure sensors, compute, and actuation meet algorithmic requirements

- Mechanical teams for enclosure constraints, thermal design, connectors, and vibration robustness

- Manufacturing and operations teams for supplier selection, cost optimization, and scale -up

- Interface with external vendors and silicon partners for MCUs, sensors, RF modules, power components, and manufacturing houses.

- Mentor junior and mid -level hardware engineers in schematic design, layout best practices, debugging, and validation discipline.


Required Qualifications

- 6+ years of professional hardware engineering experience with a strong hands -on track record.

- Experience designing hardware for robotics, drones, flight control systems, or high -reliability embedded platforms.

- Natural mentorship, and the ability to work with existing junior hardware design engineers.

- Robust background in sensor integration, power electronics, and mixed -signal design.

- Proven experience taking custom hardware from first prototype through production.

- Familiarity with safety -critical or regulated environments (e.g., aerospace, automotive, defense).

- Knowledge of relevant standards such as IPC, EMI/EMC standards, DO -254, ISO 26262, or STANAG is a strong plus.

- Natural mentor with strong communication skills and ability to align cross -functional teams.


Should you really join us?

If you like learning, if you like figuring things out by yourself without others telling you how to do it - and thrive under work pressure to ship missiles - then this is for you. Join us to take ownership of your work. We are a lean team - there is no rule book to what we're doing. You have an end goal - which is based on a real product - and you need to get it done your own way. It's hard, and we all love it here.