Senior Hardware Engineer

Location: Remote Reports to: Sr. Director, Strategic Operations Type: Full-time

We're looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to own the full lifecycle of our hardware products — from electrical and mechanical design through manufacturing, supply chain, and field validation. This is a hands-on, design/build role for someone who is equally comfortable reviewing a schematic, evaluating an injection-molded enclosure tolerance or machine objects, negotiating with manufacturers, and troubleshooting units that failed in the field.

This role starts as an individual contributor with a clear path to building and leading a hardware engineering team within the first 12 months as the product line and org scale.

Product Design & Engineering

• Design and specify hardware for connected/embedded devices (e.g., telematics units, cameras, NFC, and streaming systems) — spanning PCB-level electrical components and mechanical enclosures
• Own mechanical design for plastic and metal casings, including DFM (design for manufacturability) considerations and machining specs where custom or low-volume parts are needed
• Bridge electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines to ensure components, thermal management, ingress protection, and structural design work together
• Prototype, iterate, and validate designs through multiple revision cycles
• Can follow engineering discussions about system design, protocols, keywords (TCP/REST/API), data pipelines. Understands what engineers need from the device side and can advocate for hardware constraints in those conversations. Can read a spec, API doc, or system diagram and ask the right questions without needing to write code.

Manufacturing & Supply Chain

• Source raw components and off-the-shelf modules/units, vetting suppliers on cost, quality, and lead time
• Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with contract manufacturers and assembly/mfg vendors
• Lead supply chain deep-dives to de-risk single-source components, manage cost, and plan for scale
• Support procurement and inventory planning in partnership with operations/supply chain teams

Field Testing & Validation

• Plan and execute field test programs to validate device performance in real-world conditions
• Diagnose and resolve hardware issues surfaced from the field, feeding learnings back into design
• Partner with QA/reliability functions on test plans, failure analysis, and root-cause investigations

Team Building & Leadership (Year 1 milestone)

• Build the case for and hire a hardware engineering team as product scope grows
• Establish engineering processes, documentation standards, and design review practices
• Mentor and lead engineers once the team is in place; represent hardware engineering in cross-functional planning

• 4+ years of experience in hardware engineering, with meaningful depth in both mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines
• Direct experience with connected device hardware — telematics, IoT, camera/streaming systems, or similar (companies like Geotab, Teltonika, or comparable hardware makers are a strong reference point)
• Hands-on experience with plastic and metal enclosure design, including machining processes (CNC, injection molding, or similar)
• Working knowledge of electrical component selection, sourcing, and integration for embedded/connected products
• Proven experience managing supply chains — vendor sourcing for raw components, off-the-shelf units, and contract manufacturing/assembly partners
• Experience running field test programs and translating field data into design improvements
• Comfortable operating at both strategic (supply chain strategy, vendor negotiation) and tactical (hands-on prototyping, troubleshooting) levels
• Prior people management experience, or clear readiness and desire to build/lead a team
• Strong cross-functional communication skills — this role will work closely with product, engineer, operations, and QA

• Experience scaling a hardware team from an IC or lean-team structure
• Familiarity with regulatory/compliance requirements for connected devices (FCC, CE, IP ratings, etc.)
• Experience with camera/video streaming hardware specifically (sensor selection, compression/streaming hardware, thermal considerations)