Hardware Systems Lead, Industrials

The role

You will be the hands-on architect for hardware running on heavy industrial vehicles in mining, agriculture, and construction. You will design, build, test, and ensure the survivability of mechanical and electrical systems in harsh environments.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end mechanical and electrical hardware architecture for industrial vehicle programs
• Interface with industrial customers as a hardware representative
• Prototype, build, install, debug, and test hardware on real machines
• Define and drive hardware survivability against vibration, shock, dust, water, thermal extremes, and EMI
• Design and run environmental and durability testing and analyze failures
• Lead integration of sensors, compute, power, networking, and actuation onto OEM equipment
• Understand host machine systems like powertrain, electrohydraulics, and CAN/J1939
• Act as technical authority for hardware tradeoffs
• Lead hardware design reviews and mentor engineers
• Support field deployments and commissioning at mine sites, farms, and customer facilities

Required qualifications

• BS/MS in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or a related field
• 10+ years of hands-on hardware engineering experience on heavy industrial or off-highway vehicles
• Strong command of mechanical design, electrical architecture, power distribution, and harness design
• Experience designing hardware for vibration, shock, ingress protection, thermal management, and EMI
• Hands-on experience building prototypes, wiring, debugging, and diagnosing failures on real machines
• Deep knowledge of industrial machine powertrains, hydraulics, braking, steering, and CAN/J1939 networks
• Experience integrating hardware onto OEM or retrofit equipment
• Familiarity with autonomy hardware such as lidar, radar, cameras, GNSS/IMU, and ruggedized compute
• Systems-level thinking and ability to make architecture decisions
• Experience with reliability and qualification testing
• Comfort working with OEMs, customers, and site operators, including extended time at mine sites and farms

Nice to have

• Experience with functional safety or machine safety standards (ISO 25119, ISO 13849, ISO 17757, ISO 26262)
• Experience with autonomous haulage, precision agriculture, or other autonomous industrial systems

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries.