Tait Communications is looking for an experienced Senior Design Engineer to join our talented Engineering team. This is a hands-on, technical leadership role where you'll help shape the future of Tait's critical communications products, and solutions that keep communities, first responders, and essential services connected and safe around the world.
As a Senior Design Engineer, you will provide expert technical leadership across the full product lifecycle. You will bring capability in engineering design, project management, strong analytical skills, leadership capability and a passion for engineering excellence.
This is a multi-disciplinary role. An ideal candidate would have interest and experience across many areas, including mechanical hardware, electronic hardware, audio systems, and embedded software. Experience in system engineering would be beneficial.
You'll be responsible for driving technical success for the strategic initiative around accessories, so that we can have more control over the end-to-end user experience of Tait products and solutions. You will work within a project team that includes both internal and partner resource – it is expected that this role will require regular collaboration with third parties.
This will involve driving innovative design outcomes, mentoring other engineers, and contributing to architecture, development, testing, and delivery of high-performing products and systems.
Key responsibilities include:
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
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You'll thrive in a role where curiosity, collaboration, and technical rigor are valued and where your ideas can help shape mission-critical products used worldwide.
At Tait, we are passionate about supporting people, communities, and the critical work our customers do. You'll enjoy:
For more than 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transport, and utility organizations around the world.
Our people are united in their commitment to creating technology that makes a real difference. When you join Tait, you join a community that values innovation, teamwork, and the meaningful impact of our work.
If you're ready to take the next step in your engineering career and want to contribute to high-performing, mission-critical technologies, we'd love to hear from you.
Please submit your CV and cover letter Applications will be assessed as they are received. Your CV will be held on file unless you request its removal.
Applications close: Sunday 25th January 2026. For more information, visit our website: www.taitcommunications.com
Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.
Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.
We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.
We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.
Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.
