Director, Hardware Engineering at Regent · LumiJobs

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As Director, Hardware Engineering, you’ll lead REGENT’s hardware engineering organization through its next critical phase - stepping into a team with real momentum and helping evolve it into the high-performing, process-mature organization that can carry Seaglider programs from concept through certification and into production. You’re joining a sizable organization with strong technical talent and real momentum already in motion. This is not a blank-slate build - the foundations are in place, and the next chapter is about strengthening leadership, sharpening execution, and building the systems needed to scale. Your first priority will be to listen, assess, and earn trust: understand where the team is strongest, where friction exists, and what support leaders and engineers need to perform at their best.
From that foundation, you’ll lead the next stage of growth - strengthening the organization where it matters most and building the capabilities required for scale. A core part of the role is coaching and developing functional managers into exceptional leaders: helping them raise performance, grow their teams, navigate tough decisions, and lead with greater clarity and accountability. You’ll build leadership capacity while creating an environment where managers can operate with ownership and consistency. You’ll also raise the bar on execution, mature the processes that enable complex hardware programs to move faster with less risk, and build the cross-functional partnerships that make the broader engineering organization more effective.
As part of Engineering leadership, you’ll co-own REGENT’s engineering operating system: shared standards for configuration management, design reviews, requirements traceability, and documentation that underpin both hardware and software delivery. Working closely with Chief Engineers and PMO, you’ll help ensure the hardware organization delivers consistently across multiple programs.
Success looks like an organization that is stronger, more cohesive, and more scalable than when you arrived - with stronger managers, improved systems, and a team ready to execute through certification and beyond. If you’re energized by inheriting something strong and helping make it exceptional, we’d love to meet you!
Lead and Strengthen the Hardware Engineering Organization: Own the people, structure, and culture of a 30+ person (and growing!) hardware engineering organization spanning structures, electrical, and mechanical systems. Build on the strong technical foundation already in place while strengthening leadership, raising expectations, and creating a culture of accountability, rigor, and ownership.
Coach and Develop Functional Managers: Invest deeply in the growth of functional managers and emerging leaders. Coach them to lead higher-performing teams, make stronger decisions, navigate complexity, and operate with greater ownership, consistency, and accountability.
Own Delivery and Execution Rhythm: Establish clear operating cadences, decision-making mechanisms, and accountability systems that keep work moving. Remove blockers quickly, escalate tradeoffs when needed, and ensure teams consistently translate priorities into measurable progress.
Mature Engineering Processes: Own the hardware side of REGENT’s engineering operating system - including configuration management, design review discipline, documentation standards, release processes, and requirements traceability. Establish the right level of rigor for the current phase while building toward certification readiness.
Build a Stronger Leadership Layer: Create the systems, expectations, and support that allow the next layer of leaders to grow and operate independently. Increase organizational leverage by developing managers and senior technical leads who can scale the business with you.
Partner Across Engineering: Work closely with software engineering to co-own shared standards and a unified engineering culture. Drive clear hardware/software integration points and ensure both organizations operate as one engineering team where it matters most.
Align Capacity with Program Demand: Partner with PMO and functional leaders to match resources to program priorities - balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term team health, forecasting headcount needs, and managing competing demands across programs.
Drive Execution Across Programs: Ensure the hardware organization’s outputs are synchronized with test campaigns, manufacturing readiness, certification milestones, and program schedules. Lead an organization that not only designs exceptional systems, but delivers them reliably and on time.

Director, Hardware Engineering

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