Senior Product Manager - Hardware & Edge AI

About the role

Project Q is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the hardware strategy for their mission devices. You will work end-to-end from discovery with operators through hardware build cycles to fielded units, ensuring devices meet performance requirements in demanding environments. This role involves close collaboration with engineering and design teams to deliver robust, integrated hardware solutions.

Responsibilities

• Spend time with end users in their operating environment to understand their workflows in depth.
• Validate assumptions about value, usability, feasibility and viability through prototypes, bench tests and field trials.
• Maintain an outcome-focused roadmap aligned to hardware build cycles, firmware releases and OTA update pipelines.
• Define requirements and field metrics for each device, including detection performance, energy efficiency, mission endurance and SWaP.
• Make sure devices integrate with Hydris and interoperate with third-party systems through industry standards and protocols.
• Act as the main source of product context and the product's champion for the team, leadership and customers.
• Write clear PRDs and decision records, and mentor teammates on discovery practice and hardware–software trade-offs.

Required skills

• Product management
• Hardware-software products
• Embedded systems
• IoT
• Robotics
• Edge AI
• German
• English

Nice to have

• Sensor fusion
• Mesh networking
• Cursor on Target
• SAPIENT
• ONVIF
• ASTERIX

Qualifications

• Degree in electrical, mechanical or systems engineering, robotics or a related field
• Equivalent hands-on experience bringing hardware products from prototype to production
• Eligibility for German security clearance (SÜ2)

Benefits

• Annual learning and development budget
• Bike leasing
• Urban Sports Club membership
• 30 days of paid time off

About the Company

Project Q GmbH is a defence technology company with offices in Berlin and Munich, and a trusted partner of the German Armed Forces. They build Hydris, an orchestration layer that integrates sensors, drones and C2 systems into one picture for operators across defence, public safety, and critical infrastructure.