HardwareEngineeringmanager

🎯 CONTEXT 250 local authorities rely on Vizzia's hardware - cameras, stations, accessories - deployed in the field, in real conditions, every day. By end of 2026, that number will be 450. Scaling from here is first and foremost a hardware challenge. The next product iterations need to ship on time, at industrial-grade quality, and with the technical foundations that will hold at scale. That's what this role is about. Vizzia has raised €30M in Series B and is accelerating. The Hardware R&D team covers the full stack — electronics, mechanics, firmware — and is looking for its technical anchor: someone who goes deep on architecture, sets the bar on engineering standards, and makes sure what leaves the lab actually survives the field. You'll report directly to David, Head of Hardware, and work across the hardware team as the senior technical 🛠️ WHAT YOU'LL DO 1. Engineering leadership & team development - Own the technical roadmap for the R&D team : prioritize, sequence, and make the calls that keep the team focused - Set the engineering bar: documentation standards, design reviews, validation rigor, and the habits that separate a good team from a great one - Be the person engineers come to when a problem is hard : and know how to unblock them without solving everything yourself - Drive recruiting and onboarding as the team scales. You help define who we hire, and how we make them effective fast - Structure clean interfaces with Backend and Operations: not a nice-to-have, but part of your accountability 2. Architecture & technical decisions - Own system-level architecture decisions across electronics, mechanics, and firmware, balancing performance, cost, and long-term maintainability - Anticipate EMC/CE/NDAA certification constraints from day one, not as an afterthought - Make technical constraints legible to non-hardware stakeholders , without dumbing things down - Simplify where others add complexity. If a design can be cleaner, make it cleaner 3. Industrialization