Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Recruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. They are seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to drive reliability, validation, and system-level performance across their AI-powered camera systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead PCB validation, hardware bring-up, debugging, and production readiness activities for new hardware designs
- Review schematics, identify design issues, and collaborate with engineering teams to optimize manufacturability and reliability
- Design and execute system-level validation plans, including environmental, thermal, accelerated life, and stress testing
- Investigate hardware failures from deployed field units and conduct root-cause analysis to drive corrective actions
- Partner closely with firmware engineers to diagnose system-level issues using hardware tools and firmware logs
- Improve product reliability through component selection, thermal optimization, mechanical enhancements, and design improvements
- Evaluate alternative components and suppliers to improve supply chain resilience and long-term product sustainability
- Develop test automation tools, validation frameworks, and diagnostic tooling to improve engineering efficiency
- Document validation processes, failure investigations, and engineering findings to support knowledge sharing across teams
- Contribute wherever needed, supporting a highly collaborative startup environment where ownership extends beyond formal responsibilities
Skills
- 5+ years of professional hardware engineering experience
- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical discipline
- Proven track record bringing production-scale electronic products from development through manufacturing and deployment
- Strong experience in hardware validation, reliability engineering, failure analysis, and root-cause investigations
- Hands-on experience with hardware debugging tools including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, serial debuggers, and related equipment
- Ability to read schematics and analyze low-level hardware and firmware logs
- Experience working across hardware, firmware, and embedded systems boundaries
- Programming experience with Python and/or C/C++ for test automation, validation tooling, or firmware debugging
- Strong troubleshooting mindset with the ability to independently drive complex investigations to resolution
- Experience with consumer electronics, IoT devices, cameras, edge computing systems, or embedded hardware products
- Familiarity with firmware-hardware integration and embedded Linux-based systems
- Experience supporting products at manufacturing scale and high deployment volumes
- Personal hardware projects, maker experience, robotics projects, or other evidence of engineering curiosity outside of work
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and development workflows
- Background in reliability testing methodologies including HALT, HASS, environmental testing, and accelerated lifecycle testing
- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments with broad ownership expectations
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus opportunity.
- Equity participation.
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