Sr. Advanced Development Engineer - Electrical Engineering

Your Impact

As a Senior Advanced Development Engineer II on Axon’s New Ventures team, you will lead complex, multi-disciplinary prototype efforts with electrical engineering at the core. You’ll take ambiguous, high-risk ideas and turn them into concrete systems, experiments, and evidence that help Axon decide whether—and how—to invest.

This role is ideal for a senior engineer with deep electrical expertise who thrives beyond traditional EE boundaries. You will shape system architecture, anticipate technical and business risks, and influence leadership decisions through hands-on prototyping and clear technical judgment—not polished production delivery.

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Location: This role may be based out of Scottsdale, AZ; Seattle, WA; or Boston, MA, and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development of multi-disciplinary prototypes where electrical engineering is a primary driver of feasibility and risk
• Architect and build electrical systems for exploratory hardware concepts, spanning power, sensing, actuation, compute, and communications
• Integrate electrical designs with mechanical systems and software to deliver cohesive, end-to-end prototypes
• Independently navigate high ambiguity, identifying the right experiments to reduce technical and business uncertainty
• Anticipate electrical, system-level, and operational risks and propose mitigation strategies early
• Drive Build–Measure–Learn cycles focused on feasibility, reliability, and real-world behavior—not production polish
• Contribute significantly to business case development, including feasibility assessments, risk analysis, and resource estimates
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders and executives
• Mentor other engineers by modeling strong system thinking and cross-disciplinary problem solving
• Help define what “good enough” looks like for prototypes intended to inform leadership decisions

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What You Bring

You bring deep electrical engineering expertise as your primary discipline, paired with meaningful hands-on experience building electromechanical or physical systems that extend beyond traditional Electrical Engineering scope. You likely have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and debugging electrical systems for complex or novel hardware
• Primary depth in electrical engineering, such as power systems, sensing, signal integrity, controls, or system-level electrical architecture
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in at least one secondary discipline, most commonly:
• Mechanical engineering or electromechanical system design, or
• Embedded or systems-level software used to control or evaluate physical systems (not firmware-only)
• A track record of building end-to-end prototypes where you personally worked outside EE, for example:
• Designing and assembling electromechanical systems involving motors, actuators, mechanisms, or moving assemblies
• Modifying mechanical designs to resolve electrical, sensing, or control constraints
• Building and iterating physical prototypes where electrical and mechanical decisions were tightly coupled
• Experience making technical trade-offs that span