Humanarchive
Head of Engineering
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 77 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentLinuxPCB DesignEmbedded SystemsSystems EngineeringRoboticsHardware DesignPower ElectronicsSensorsResearchCommunication
About the role
- This is a full-stack hardware engineering role spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, embedded systems, and manufacturing.
- You will work directly on wearable sensing systems involving synchronized cameras, motion capture, tactile sensing, embedded compute, and power systems operating under real-world deployment constraints.
- Open to exceptional new graduates and early-career engineers (2023-2026).
Responsibilities
- Lead hardware engineering and manufacturing execution for Human Archive's multimodal wearable systems
- Own integration across power systems, sensor synchronization, embedded compute, thermal systems, and mechanical packaging
- Review CAD, schematics, PCB layouts, and embedded firmware behavior and drive corrective action with engineering justification
- Experience building battery-powered electronics, embedded Linux systems, sensor integration systems, or wearable hardware
- To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research.
- We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia.
- You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong background in mechatronics, robotics, systems engineering, embedded systems, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Ability to debug hardware and embedded systems using serial tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and low-level debugging workflows
- Strong mechanical judgment with the ability to review CAD and identify structural, ergonomic, thermal, or reliability issues
- Ability to move quickly in ambiguous, high-ownership environments with aggressive timelines
- Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams
- Experience working with motion capture systems, IMUs, stereo depth cameras, tactile sensing, or wearable robotics
- Experience bringing hardware products from prototype through mass production deployment
- Experience working on robotics, embodied AI, multimodal sensing, or large-scale wearable systems
Nice to have
- Mandarin fluency and established relationships in Chinese manufacturing are required.
- A background in mechatronics, systems engineering, robotics, or embedded hardware is strongly preferred.
Company info
- What We're Looking For
- Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model.
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