Hardware Engineering Manager - SuperNatural Vision (SNV)

As a Hardware Engineering Manager at Otto Aerospace, you will lead the team responsible for the architecture, development, and integration of advanced hardware systems for the SuperNatural Vision Infotainment System (SNVIS). You will oversee top-level hardware features, requirements, and system specifications, guide vendor and technology-partner engagements, and drive the full engineering lifecycle—from concept and design through implementation, validation, and release.

Requirements

• Own and manage top-level hardware features, requirements, and system specifications for the SNVIS platform
• Lead the hardware engineering organization, setting technical direction, establishing best practices, and ensuring high-quality execution across design, development, and validation
• Oversee definition, tracking, and maintenance of hardware requirements for compute modules, power systems, sensors, and all supporting electronic subsystems
• Guide vendor and technology-partner engagements, including evaluation and selection of processors, boards, components, and hardware subsystems
• Ensure comprehensive system-level requirements are captured and managed, including power, performance, data I/O, communication protocols, reliability, environmental, and thermal constraints
• Drive and support aviation certification activities for hardware systems and safety-critical components
• Lead and coordinate engineering design reviews, hardware bring-up, integration efforts, and cross-functional validation activities
• Define and maintain interface specifications between SNVIS hardware, embedded compute systems, avionics buses, and the Cabin Management System

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) opportunities
• Paid short term disability
• Voluntary long-term disability and additional term life
• 15 paid days off
• 15 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave