day-to-day
so our hardware leads stay focused on design: driving the schedule, closing open items, managing vendor and long-lead risk, and keeping compliance and manufacturability on track. You'll be the connective tissue between electrical, mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, and field operations — tracking progress of critical builds, surfacing risks early, and forcing timely decisions.
This is a high-visibility role for someone who thrives on aggressive timelines and knows which enterprise process steps to keep, compress, or cut at startup pace.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end planning and execution of the hardware program: architecture freeze, component selection, EVT/DVT/PVT, production ramp, and field deployment
- Build and maintain the integrated master schedule with dependency-mapped milestones and critical path across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing tracks
- Drive open-item burn-down to design freeze — component selections, trade decisions, and requirement gaps — and run lightweight design reviews with clear entry/exit criteria
- Manage contract manufacturer engagement (builds, first articles, acceptance test procedures, line readiness) and long-lead component procurement across single-source supply risks
- Coordinate the compliance and certification roadmap (IEC 60945 EMC, IP ratings, market access, TAA sourcing constraints) with engineering and test labs so certs never gate fielding
- Run the engineering change process (ECR/ECO), ensuring scope and requirement shifts are documented, dispositioned, and communicated across teams
- Plan new product introduction and field rollout: spares provisioning, field-service procedures, QA, coordination with logistics, and readiness reviews with global field ops teams
- Facilitate cross-functional cadence — standups, milestone reviews, go/no-go gates — and act as primary point of contact for program status and decision timelines
- Maintain program artifacts: schedules, risk registers, FMEAs, open-item trackers, and dashboards
- Feed lessons learned from fielded units back into the design and manufacturing process, and align the program with company OKRs
QUALIFICATIONS
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PREFERRED
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- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of technical program or project management experience in hardware, robotics, or embedded systems — ideally through at least one full EVT/DVT/PVT cycle into volume production
- Proven track record running programs with contract manufacturers, including builds, first-article inspection, and acceptance testing