Director of Hardware Engineering

• Own and lead the Hardware team (optics video processing signal processing battery management mechanics electronics/EE industrial design) hiring coaching and developing the engineers in the group.
• Set technical direction and contribute to the product vision for Veos Capture Portfolio from concept through mass production. Partner cross-functionally with Product AI Video to align priorities and make the right trade-offs.
• Lead projects end-to-end: planning task management and follow-up so commitments made to the business are commitments you can keep.
• Own program management for hardware initiatives: scoping realistic timelines with sensible buffers critical path and dependency management and honest running status reporting.
• Run the teams agile ways of working stand-ups sprint planning retros backlog refinement adapted to what a hardware team actually needs.
• Own DFM/DFA and manufacturing readiness; partner with our internal assembly line contract manufacturers and suppliers to hit cost quality and time-to-market targets.
• Build and own Capex/Opex budgets for your team and your programs.
• Partner with Supply Chain Finance and Legal for vendor contract management for key hardware components including supplier selection inputs commercial terms lead times quality commitments change control risk mitigation and ongoing performance governance.
• Be an active member of Builders senior engineering leadership helping shape engineering standards operating rhythms technical trade-offs and leadership culture across Veo.
• Together with Product represent Hardware in Builders-wide prioritisation planning and roadmap conversations ensuring hardware constraints opportunities and risks are understood early.
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence quality reliability testing and documentation across the hardware development lifecycle.
• Take real ownership: theres a lot of responsibility here and a lot of freedom to run it the way you see fit.

• Significant experience leading hardware engineering teams for consumer electronics including experience managing other managers or leads as a team scales or a masters degree in a relevant engineering field.
• Broad technical fluency across optics video processing signal processing battery management mechanics electronics/EE and DFM/DFA for high-volume manufacturing plus enough firmware understanding to make good trade-off calls with that team.
• A strong program management track record: planning budgeting risk management and cross-functional coordination on complex multi-disciplinary hardware programs.
• Experience taking products from prototype through mass production working with contract manufacturers and/or in-house assembly lines.
• A leadership style that builds trust ownership and high standards and thats comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong systems thinking across hardware firmware software manufacturing and customer experience.

Bonus experience:

• Direct firmware background or experience managing firmware teams alongside hardware.
• Having scaled a hardware team through significant headcount and product-line growth.
• Hardware software business models or multi-product environments.