Head of Hardware

About the role

MicroAGI is a data research and deployment lab building hardware to capture physical work data for foundation models. As Head of Hardware, you will own the hardware roadmap and system architecture end to end, leading a team of engineers while remaining hands-on with design and development. This is a founder-shaped role requiring someone who has successfully taken a product from a blank page to customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardware roadmap for 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 grow the hardware team while fostering ownership of subsystems.
• Guarantee data quality by managing EMG, EEG, and camera pipelines for machine learning teams.
• Manage the transition from prototype to small-batch production, including DFM and vendor management.

Required skills

• Electrical engineering
• Mixed-signal design
• Power electronics
• Wireless communication
• High-speed digital design
• System architecture
• DFM
• Vendor management
• Machine learning

Nice to have

• Wearables
• Robotics
• Camera systems
• MIPI
• ISP pipelines
• Battery design
• Antenna integration
• Mechanical CAD
• Open-source hardware

Qualifications

• Experience taking at least one product from zero to shipped with significant ownership
• Experience leading and growing engineering teams through 0-to-1 ambiguity

Benefits

• Equity
• Free food and drinks in the office

About the Company

MicroAGI is a data research and deployment lab accelerating embodied AGI by capturing manual work data in industrial settings. Founded by former Formula 1 engineers and researchers, the company is backed by a $55M seed round and operates research and engineering hubs in Munich, Zürich, London, New York, and Istanbul.