Director Of Hardware Engineering

Director of Hardware Engineering

Department: Hardware

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Denver Hardware Office

Reporting To: Tom O'Brien

Compensation: $175,000 - $215,000 / year

Description

Project Canary is a climate technology company offering an enterprise data platform that helps energy companies improve and report on their emissions footprint. Project Canary builds high-fidelity sensors, ingests data from various other technologies and sources, and leverages proprietary analytics and models to deliver insights that operators can act on to reduce emissions. The data-driven technology enables energy operators to stop leaks faster, reduce risk, streamline reporting, and differentiate their operations for key stakeholders.

As a scaling PBC, we have excellent benefits, a people-first oriented culture and policies, and an environment of fun that celebrates.

The Director of Hardware Engineering will be a part of the Hardware team and lead a team of Hardware and Firmware Engineers on current and next generation product development.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive hardware device architecture and roadmap across company. Ensuring hardware meets the needs of executive team, supply chain team, customer success team, field team, product teams and software teams.

• Fully own technology transfer to manufacturing, resolving all manufacturability issues, manufacturing testing development, process development and documentation.

• Drive proof of concept hardware development and develop business and usage cases for next generation technologies.

• Drive the resolution of all customer and field team hardware issues including tracking and monitoring installation and customer issues leading the root cause investigations through the final technology implementation.

• Drive the development of next generation hardware products.

• Lead a multi-functional team of 6+ hardware and firmware engineers, ensuring all tasks are identified, executed, and completed

• Responsible for coordinating schedules and ensuring sufficient resources to meet deadlines, while maintaining successful budget execution.

• Personnel and Team Development: Developing and maintaining a team who are able to Develop, Integrate, and Verify Requirements

• Providing clear communication to both internal and external team members as well as executive management

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field required; MBA or other Master's degree is preferred but not required

• 7+ years' experience in hardware engineering

• 4+ years experience in PCB layout

• 5+ years' experience managing a team

• Experience working with IoT devices

• Experience working with firmware engineering teams, firmware engineering experience strongly preferred

• Extensive knowledge of board-level electronics and electrical systems

• Demonstrated systems engineering full lifecycle experience

• Strong team collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated experience as both a technical leader and individual contributor in systems integration

• Strong project management skills, certification(s) preferred but not required

• Excellent technical writing, forecasting, and budgeting skills

Benefits

• Salary range: $175,000 - 215,000

• Hybrid work environment (at least 3 days/week in Denver office)

• Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse

• 401K with company match (no vesting period)

• Opportunity for equity ownership

• Student loan assistance

• Unlimited PTO (minimum rule of taking at least 3 weeks off in a year)

• Company sponsored wellness days (ski/snowboard days and more)

• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (gender neutral) including adoptions

• Flex Choice Monthly Stipend - choice between parking, public transportation, or wellness assistance