The roleAs the company scales, building a reliable, high-quality capture platform is foundational to everything we do. As Head of Hardware, you lead the architecture and engineering of that platform and drive its strategy and roadmap from concept through mass production. You set the quality and reliability bar and lead the convergence of the electrical, firmware, mechanical, and optical sub-systems into one coherent product - the senior hardware authority for the company and the systems architect behind the device.
This is a hands-on leadership role at an early stage. You'll build and grow the hardware engineering team, and partner across industrial design, software, supply chain, quality/reliability, and our China contract-manufacturing partners to take the product from prototype through EVT/DVT/PVT to volume production. If you're energized by owning a wearable hardware platform from architecture through scaled production, this is that seat.
Responsibilities- Lead the definition and convergence of the capture device's electrical, firmware, mechanical, and optical sub-systems into a single coherent platform, holding final technical authority on architectural trade-offs.
- Set and own the quality and reliability bar for a body-worn device, and drive the test and design decisions that uphold it at scale.
- Drive the product from prototype through EVT/DVT/PVT to mass production, partnering closely with industrial design, supply chain, and our China manufacturing and reliability teams.
- Build, lead, and grow the hardware engineering team, and own the hiring roadmap behind it.
- Own the feedback loop that turns field and factory data into design improvements.
- Own the systems-level reliability challenges unique to a body-worn device - thermal, mechanical durability, connector and wear under all-day motion - and set the engineering approach the team executes against.
Minimum qualifications- 10+ years in hardware engineering with a track record of shipping consumer or wearable hardware at volume, including direct ownership of at least one full reliability ramp from prototype through mass production.
- Broad systems engineering background - deep in at least two of embedded/firmware, electrical, mechanical, and optics, and fluent enough to lead and evaluate the rest.
- Experience driving architecture convergence on complex consumer electronics and making cross-disciplinary trade-offs.
- Experience owning a hardware quality bar and a DVT/reliability process that caught issues before mass production.
- Experience leading cross-functional hardware teams and working closely with contract manufacturers, ideally in China.
Preferred qualifications- Experience with body-worn or always-on devices (action cameras, wearables, AR/VR, health/fitness).
- Background from a hardware org known for execution at scale (e.g. Meta Reality Labs, GoPro, DJI, Insta360, or a wearable startup that shipped in volume).
- Experience with camera/optics systems and on-device compute, including ML workloads on edge hardware.
