Lead Hardware Automation Engineer

Company Profile

We are a tech start-up building next-generation software and hardware for the luxury sector, combining interactive 3D, VR, video, and automation technologies to create immersive physical and digital customer experiences. Our mission is to redefine how premium brands engage, sell, and serve customers through elegant, high-performance technology.

Role Overview

We are looking for a full-time Lead Hardware Automation Engineer to help design, prototype, build, and scale the automation systems behind a new generation of interactive luxury commerce experiences.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable in industrial automation environments and fast-moving maker-style prototyping. You should understand the discipline of classic PLC-based systems, while also having the curiosity and practical creativity to build, test, and iterate with tools such as Arduino, STM microcontrollers, 3D printing, basic electronics, sensors, actuators, and custom hardware assemblies.

This role is not about simply maintaining machinery. It is about creating intelligent, reliable, elegant hardware systems that support best-in-class customer experiences.

What You’ll Do

You will lead the development of hardware automation systems that combine mechanical movement, electronics, software control, robotics, and cloud-connected product experiences. You will work across concept development, prototyping, testing, commissioning, documentation, and production readiness.

A major part of the role will involve robotic arm control, including movement planning, repeatability, safety, calibration, end-effector integration, and coordination with digital systems. You will help design automation experiences that feel smooth, premium, reliable, and intentional.

You will also work with PLCs, sensors, motors, controllers, relays, IO systems, embedded boards, custom fixtures, and prototype hardware. You should be able to move between structured industrial automation thinking and inventive hands-on problem solving.

You will collaborate closely with software, product, design, 3D, video, and leadership teams to turn ambitious ideas into working systems. You will also help establish a modern engineering process that uses AI-assisted development, simulation, rapid prototyping, version-controlled documentation, structured testing, and tight feedback loops to move quickly without sacrificing quality or safety.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone with strong practical experience in automation, robotics, controls, and hardware prototyping. You should be comfortable working with PLCs and industrial control systems, while also having real DIY maker experience building functional prototypes from the ground up.

You should have experience with robotic arm controls and be able to think clearly about motion, precision, reliability, safety, and integration with software systems.

More importantly, you should bring energy, ownership, and pride in craft. You are hungry to build best-in-class products. You care about the end customer experience, not just whether the machine technically works. You are highly motivated, effective, resourceful, and willing to solve problems with whatever combination of engineering rigor and creative improvisation is required.

Ideal Traits

You are hands-on, self-directed, commercially aware, and comfortable in a start-up environment where priorities evolve quickly. You like building things, testing them, breaking them, improving them, and making them reliable enough for real-world use.

You do not need to know every platform on day one. You do need to learn quickly, make sound decisions, communicate clearly, and consistently deliver work that moves the company forward.

Why This Role Matters

This is a foundational hardware and automation role. The systems you build will directly shape the product, the physical customer experience, and the company’s ability to scale. For the right person, this is an opportunity to lead the creation of a new class of interactive automation technology for the luxury sector.