Director of AI

We're on a mission to make Raycon the most loved electronics brand in the world, and our AI device portfolio, starting with the Raycon AI Notetaker, is how we get there next. We're hiring a Director of AI to own the backbone of every AI-powered device we ship: the hardware-software integration, the vendor relationships that build it, and the engineering team that runs it.

If you love turning ambitious hardware bets into products customers can't put down, read on.

Profitable growth with 5M+ customers, international expansion underway, and a rapidly-evolving AI device portfolio.

Hong Kong or Shenzhen preferred. Open to remote.

Reports to the VP of Product. Oversees our AI device and software portfolio. Partners closely with hardware/, operations, marketing, and CX.

Raycon is expanding beyond audio into a new category: AI-powered devices, starting with the Raycon AI Notetaker. We're entering into a generation of hardware where the software, the AI, and the vendor relationship all have to work in lockstep. This role exists to ensure that experience: to build the technical foundation, the vendor playbook, the engineering team that lets Raycon scale an entire portfolio of AI devices with the speed, and quality our customers expect.

• 5+ years of experience with hardware-connected products:firmware, embedded systems, BLE/wearables, or similar
• Direct experience working with China-based hardware or component vendors, comfortable with the time zones, communication style, and quality-assurance rhythm of overseas manufacturing partners
• A track record of managing and scaling engineering teams:hiring, mentoring, and setting the technical bar as headcount grows
• Fluency across native mobile (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Java) and hybrid frameworks (React Native, Flutter), plus backend (Node.js/Type Script):you know when to reach for which, and why
• Excellent communication skills:you translate cleanly between engineers and management, in both directions, without losing precision
• A genuinely customer-first mindset:you pressure-test technical decisions against how they'll actually feel to the person using the device
• A strong bias for speed and urgency, paired with high attention to detail:you move fast and iterate against real customer feedback without cutting corners
• Experience building engineering programs and processes that scale as the team and product line grow

• Ideally based in Hong Kong or Shenzhen
• Fluent in Mandarin and/or Cantonese, plus English
• Direct experience with AI/ML-powered consumer hardware:voice capture, transcription, or on-device/cloud AI processing
• Hands-on Dev Ops/infrastructure experience (Terraform, Cloud Formation) beyond the basics
• Experience scaling a product line from a single SKU to a multi-device portfolio

• Team Leadership & Scaling:
  Build, manage, and grow Raycon's software engineering team:hiring, mentoring, and raising the technical bar as the AI device portfolio expands
• Hardware-Software Integration:
  Own the architecture connecting our AI devices, including the Raycon AI Notetaker, to their companion apps and backend from firmware constraints through cloud AI processing to the in-app experience
• Vendor Management:
  Serve as the primary technical point of contact for our China-based hardware and component vendors,driving software/firmware quality, resolving integration issues, and protecting delivery timelines
• Product & Roadmap Ownership:
  Partner with the VP of Product to translate product vision into a real technical roadmap across the AI device portfolio
• Cross-Functional Communication:
  Translate technical tradeoffs into terms management can act on, and business priorities into terms engineers can build…