Lead R&D Hardware Engineer

Your mission is to lead Vizzia's Hardware R&D to accelerate delivery speed and raise the bar on quality, while ensuring robust long-term technical decisions.

You are accountable for delivering the next product iterations (cameras, stations, accessories) on time and at industrial-grade quality - with zero late surprises.

You structure the team, elevate technical standards, and build a culture of rigor, transparency, and field impact., Program leadership & roadmap ownership

• Define and embody a clear, structured, and committed R&D roadmap.
• Ensure milestones (Q2-Q4 2026) are met with detailed plans (Gantt, risk register, dependencies).
• Anticipate technical and industrial risks at least two milestones ahead.
• Escalate and arbitrate cost / quality / timeline trade-offs early and clearly.

Architecture & technical excellence

• Design robust, modular, certifiable electronic architectures (ESP32, RF, high-speed, SoC/DSP).
• Integrate DFM/DFT and industrial constraints from day one.
• Anticipate EMC/CE/NDAA certification requirements and avoid end-of-cycle blockers.
• Structure clean interfaces with other teams (Backend/Operations) to ensure smooth product releases.

Industrialization & quality

• Ensure complete and production-ready industrial documentation (BOM, Gerber files, test reports, procedures).
• Define and enforce strong validation plans (functional, environmental, EMC, field testing).
• Control BOM costs and secure critical components through double sourcing.
• Run formal go/no-go reviews before each hardware release.

Team leadership & organization

• Lead and grow the hardware team (electronics, mechanical, firmware, test).
• Recruit key team members and raise the technical bar.
• Clarify ownership, roles, and priorities.
• Implement effective R&D rituals focused on decisions and execution.
• Develop autonomy and technical ownership across the team.

Technology vision & benchmarking

• Conduct active technical and competitive benchmarking.
• Challenge existing designs and drive simpler, more scalable architectures.

Do you have experience in Gantt?, * Strong background in embedded electronics, with hands-on PCB experience.

• Expertise in RF, high-speed design, and EMC/CE constraints.
• Proven experience in hardware project management and industrialization.
• Successful people management experience, with a track record of team development.
• Strong prioritization skills, structured thinking, and execution rigor.
• Comfortable making decisions under cost, quality, and time constraints.
• Transparent communicator, able to align with Quality, Industrialization, and Executive teams.
• High energy, resilience, and strong product ownership mindset.

What will make the difference

We will pay special attention to candidates who:

• Have already led a hardware product from prototype to mass production and field deployment.
• Demonstrate a strong risk culture - anticipating issues early instead of reacting late.
• Combine technical depth with strategic clarity (able to zoom in on a routing issue and zoom out to rethink an architecture).
• Have successfully scaled or restructured a hardware team.
• Show evidence of raising the bar: improving processes, standards, validation rigor, or team performance.
• Are obsessed with real-world reliability, not just lab performance.
• Make complex technical constraints understandable to non-hardware stakeholders.
• Naturally simplify systems instead of adding complexity.

At Vizzia, we build hardware products deployed in real-world environments. Reliability is not optional.

If you enjoy structuring, delivering, recruiting, and raising technical standards - while keeping real customer impact at the center - this role is for you.