Head of Hardware

About the role

As Head of Hardware, you will own the hardware roadmap and system architecture for Shift and Atlas data capture, including wearables, sensor rigs, and prototype robots. You will lead and grow the engineering team while remaining hands-on with schematics, layout reviews, and board bring-up. This role requires a founder-like mindset to take designs from prototype to small-batch production while ensuring high data quality for machine learning applications.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardware roadmap for Shift and Atlas data capture including wearables, sensor rigs, camera systems, and prototype robots.
• Set the system architecture across electrical, firmware, and mechanical disciplines.
• Perform hands-on engineering tasks including schematics, layout reviews, and board bring-up.
• Lead, hire, and mentor the hardware team while fostering ownership of subsystems.
• Guarantee end-to-end data quality for ML pipelines including EMG, EEG, and camera synchronization.
• Manage the transition from prototype to small-batch production including DFM, vendor management, and certification.

Required skills

• Electrical Engineering
• Mixed-signal design
• Power electronics
• High-speed digital design
• System architecture
• DFM
• Small-batch production
• Machine Learning

Nice to have

• Wearables
• Robotics
• Camera systems
• MIPI
• ISP pipelines
• Low-power design
• BLE
• Wi-Fi
• CAD

Qualifications

• Experience taking at least one product from zero to shipped with significant ownership

Benefits

• Free food and drinks in the office

About the Company

MicroAGI is a data research and deployment lab building embodied AGI for the physical world. Founded by former Formula 1 engineers and researchers, the company is backed by a $55M seed round and focuses on training foundation models on manual work data captured in industrial environments.