Senior System Engineer – Camera Hardware

About the role

Axon, a company whose mission is to protect life through devices and cloud software for safety and justice, is looking for a hands-on Senior System Engineer in its Tampere office. The role covers device and imaging electronics, electro-mechanical camera actuators, rapid prototyping, testing and managing hardware changes and product variants. It reports to the Senior Principal Technical Program Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Work hands-on with hardware design, prototyping, testing and analysis.
• Innovate and engineer device and imaging electronics for camera products used in law enforcement.
• Create electrical designs yourself or take technical ownership of partner designs, ensuring they meet product requirements.
• Build and bring up prototypes, perform measurements and failure analysis, debug issues and iterate designs.
• Optimize imaging systems using system design skills.
• Develop software tools to automate testing and improve engineering efficiency.
• Collaborate with electrical, optical, mechanical and imaging software engineers, as well as international colleagues and partners.
• Work with suppliers on camera module manufacturing and production testing, defining and communicating technical production requirements.
• Manage hardware changes and product variants throughout the product lifecycle and keep design quality high.

Required profile

• Suitable technical degree, such as M.Sc. or B.Sc. in electrical engineering or a related field.
• Strong electrical engineering background with experience in successful practical design implementations.
• Ability to take technical ownership and drive work forward independently.
• Fluent written and spoken English, able to explain technical topics clearly in an international environment.
• Interest in broadening knowledge across electrical engineering, optics, mechanics and imaging software.

Required skills

• Hands-on competence in hardware prototyping, bring-up, measurements, debugging, testing and failure analysis.
• Strong schematic design and PCB layout review skills.
• Software skills and interest in test automation tools.
• Cadence design tools are used for electrical design.
• Bonus but not required: imaging electronics, camera modules and electro-mechanical camera actuators experience, camera module manufacturing and production testing experience, and hands-on PCB layout design experience.

The role is based in the Tampere office on a hybrid schedule: onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with remote work on Mondays unless an approved workplace accommodation applies.