Head of Engineering, Hardware

Compensation: $275K - $425K+

Travel Requirement: International travel required to India 8+ times per year

AI Foundry is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead mechanical and electrical engineering work for a hardware business being built from the ground up. This role requires someone who can set engineering direction, build a team, make strong technical decisions, and move from prototype to manufacturable product.

If you have led hardware engineering through real product development and want to build a high-caliber team from scratch, we want to hear from you.

• Set engineering direction across mechanical, electrical, systems, prototyping, validation, and product development work.
• Build and lead a hardware engineering team with a high bar for technical quality and speed.
• Translate product and business goals into engineering roadmaps, technical requirements, and execution plans.
• Own the path from prototype through design validation, reliability, manufacturability, and launch readiness.
• Work closely with industrial design, manufacturing, supply chain, vendors, and leadership to align product intent with engineering reality.
• Review architecture, designs, test plans, tradeoffs, and risks with enough depth to guide strong decisions.
• Establish engineering operating rhythms, documentation standards, design reviews, and quality gates.
• Identify technical risks early and create practical plans to resolve them.
• Represent engineering in leadership conversations and communicate tradeoffs clearly.

• You have led hardware engineering teams through real product development cycles.
• You have depth in mechanical, electrical, systems, or product engineering and enough breadth to lead across disciplines.
• You understand prototyping, validation, reliability, certification, manufacturability, and production handoff.
• You can build teams, set standards, and develop strong engineering talent.
• You make decisions with incomplete information and can defend technical tradeoffs clearly.
• You communicate well with design, manufacturing, vendors, executives, and technical teams.
• You are practical: you care about elegant engineering, but you also know products have to ship.
• You are comfortable building processes from scratch without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• You can hold a high bar without becoming rigid or hard to work with.
• You are energized by building a hardware organization from the ground up.

• Medical and Dental benefits
• 401K
• Opportunity to shape AI strategy for 500M+ users