Director of Hardware Engineering

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. 

• 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  

• 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