Head of Engineering

Accountabilities:

• • Own end-to-end technical execution of a body-worn sensing platform, from architecture and prototyping through production and shipping.
  • Lead and coordinate a distributed engineering team across India and the US, maintaining technical quality and effective collaboration across time zones.
  • Define and maintain the overall hardware system architecture, ensuring mechanical, electrical, power, sensor, and firmware subsystems integrate into a cohesive wearable product.
  • Make critical design and integration decisions involving power systems, sensor synchronization, firmware, embedded Linux, and mechanical structures.
  • Translate product requirements into clear, actionable engineering briefs that enable distributed teams to execute effectively.
  • Apply first-principles engineering to power architecture, including multi-rail battery systems, protection circuits, regulator selection, inrush behavior, brownouts, and schematic analysis.
  • Solve complex sensor synchronization challenges involving mismatched sample rates, variable bus latency, firmware timestamping, and real-world dataset alignment.
  • Debug firmware and system-level issues using schematics, logic analyzers, serial logs, and other diagnostic tools.
  • Review and challenge mechanical designs with a focus on engineering integrity, wearability, durability, load paths, tolerance stack-ups, and strain relief.
  • Take hands-on ownership of critical technical systems and evaluate their impact on product performance and underlying model capabilities.
  • Shape hiring criteria, interview processes, and team development practices as the engineering organization grows.
  • Support supply chain, vendor management, manufacturing handoff, regulatory compliance, and production scale-up where required.

  Requirements:

  • 6–10+ years of hardware engineering experience developing wearable devices, robotics, motion-capture systems, or field-deployed hardware.
  • Proven experience taking at least one hardware product through the complete development lifecycle, from initial prototype to deployment with real end users.
  • US citizenship or a valid US visa is required; visa sponsorship is not available.
  • Willingness to be based on-site in India and travel to San Francisco approximately one week per month.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in battery-powered and multi-rail power systems, including protection circuits, regulator topologies, inrush current, brownout analysis, and schematic review.
  • Strong experience with sensor synchronization across different sample rates and variable bus latencies, including firmware-level timestamping and diagnosis of real-world data misalignment.
  • Practical firmware and embedded Linux expertise, including bringing up SoM/SBC platforms and debugging timing, interrupts, buffers, and related system issues.
  • Strong mechanical engineering judgment, including understanding of load paths, tolerance stack-ups, strain relief, durability, and wearable ergonomics.
  • Previous experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Founding Engineer, or in a similarly senior technical capacity, rather than solely as an engineering manager.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead distributed technical teams and maintain engineering standards without relying on daily in-person oversight.
  • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to translate product requirements into precise engineering specifications and execution briefs.
  • Experience with hardware supply chains and vendor management is an advantage.
  • Familiarity with UL/IEC regulatory requirements for wearable devices is a plus.
  • Experience with manufacturing handoff and hardware production scale-up is desirable.

  Benefits:

  • Salary: $140,000–$210,000 USD annually.
  • Significant technical ownership at a critical stage of growth within the wearable sensing and robotics space.
  • Opportunity to shape the engineering architecture, technical standards, and culture of a growing organization.
  • Hands-on involvement across hardware, firmware, mechanical engineering, sensing, and system integration.
  • Opportunity to lead and develop a distributed engineering team across India and the United States.
  • On-site work in India with regular travel to San Francisco, approximately one week per month.
  • Opportunity to directly influence product quality, reliability, and the capabilities of the underlying technology.