Senior Manager – KinetiX Hardware Engineering

Role Overview

The Senior Manager, KinetiX Hardware Engineering, is a hands-on technical leader responsible for both leading and actively contributing to the development of the KinetiX inspection system hardware. This role leads a multi-disciplinary hardware engineering team, including electronics, mechanical, and optical engineering, while also serving as a technical project leader coordinating execution with software engineering, manufacturing, and production teams.

This position combines people leadership, system-level technical ownership, and day-to-day engineering involvement. The Senior Manager remains close to the design work, architecture decisions, and technical tradeoffs while ensuring disciplined execution across hardware, software, and production interfaces.

Key Responsibilities

Hands-On Multi-Disciplinary Technical Leadership

• Lead and integrate electronics, mechanical, and optical engineering disciplines into cohesive hardware solutions.
• Actively contribute to system architecture, design reviews, and key technical decisions across hardware subsystems.
• Drive integration of sensors, optics, electronics, mechanics, and enclosures into complete inspection systems.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex cross-disciplinary and system-level issues.
• Own the hardware organization budget, including planning, forecasting, cost control, and investment prioritization to support strategic and operational goals

Technical Project Management & Coordination

• Provide technical project leadership for hardware development efforts, working closely with software and production teams.
• Lead and coordinate product certification and manage the process to maintain updated documentation for applicable certifications, including CE and other applicable certifications.
• Coordinate hardware/software integration milestones, dependencies, and readiness for production.
• Partner with program and project managers to ensure technical execution aligns with schedule, cost, and quality goals.
• Support bid, tender, and product definition activities by assessing technical feasibility, risks, and resource needs.
• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers across electronics, mechanical, and optical disciplines.
• Balance hands-on technical contribution with coaching and delegation to grow team capability.
• Set clear technical priorities, execution expectations, and accountability.
• Build and maintain a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Product Development & Lifecycle Ownership

• Drive hardware development from concept through production and sustaining.
• Own hardware Bills of Materials (BOMs), approved configurations, and option structures.
• Govern engineering change control across hardware disciplines and lifecycle phases.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for hardware issues found in production or the field.

Manufacturing & Production Interface

• Work closely with manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to ensure design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for serviceability (DFS).
• Support production readiness, first builds, and issue resolution during ramp-up.
• Ensure hardware designs are robust, repeatable, and scalable for global production.

Quality, Risk & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and track hardware quality, reliability, and delivery metrics.
• Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation plans.
• Standardize designs, documentation, and engineering processes to reduce complexity and customization.
• Champion lessons learned and continuous improvement across hardware development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, or Industrial…