Head of Engineering

The role

This is a full-stack hardware engineering role spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, embedded systems, and manufacturing. You will lead hardware engineering and manufacturing execution for multimodal wearable systems and own integration across all system layers.

What you will do

• Lead hardware engineering and manufacturing execution for multimodal wearable systems
• Own integration across power systems, sensor synchronization, embedded compute, thermal systems, and mechanical packaging
• Debug failures across electrical, firmware, thermal, RF, and mechanical layers
• Review CAD, schematics, PCB layouts, and embedded firmware behavior
• Prototype, wear-test, deploy, and iterate on wearable sensing systems
• Work with stereo depth cameras, IMUs, motion capture systems, tactile hardware, and embedded sensing platforms
• Coordinate across hardware, software, operations, and data teams

Required qualifications

• Mandarin fluency
• Established relationships in Chinese manufacturing
• Experience building battery-powered electronics, embedded Linux systems, sensor integration systems, or wearable hardware
• Ability to debug hardware and embedded systems using serial tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and low-level debugging workflows
• Strong mechanical judgment 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
• Comfortable operating as both an individual contributor and technical leader

Nice to have

• Background in mechatronics, systems engineering, robotics, or embedded hardware
• Mandarin fluency and active manufacturing relationships in China (Shenzhen, Dongguan, or equivalent ecosystems)
• 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

About the company

Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, they build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research.