Hardware project leader

Department: Engineering

Location: Paris

Employment Type: FullTime

🎯 Mission

Your mission is to lead Vizzia’s Hardware R&D project to accelerate delivery speed and raise the bar on quality, while ensuring robust long-term technical decisions.

You are accountable for delivering the next product iterations (cameras, stations, accessories) on time and at industrial-grade quality - with zero late surprises.

You structure the R&D team, elevate technical standards, and build a culture of rigor, transparency, and field impact.

🛠️ Responsibilities

Program leadership & roadmap ownership

• Define and embody a clear, structured, and committed R&D roadmap.

• Ensure milestones are met with detailed plans (Gantt, risk register, dependencies).

• Anticipate technical and industrial risks at least two milestones ahead.

Architecture & technical excellence

• Optimize technical choices while balancing cost, production, and performance constraints.

• Integrate DFM/DFT and industrial constraints from day one.

• Anticipate EMC/CE/NDAA certification requirements and avoid end-of-cycle blockers.

• Structure clean interfaces with other teams (Backend/Operations) to ensure smooth product releases.

Industrialization & quality

• Ensure complete and production-ready industrial documentation (BOM, Gerber files, test reports, procedures).

• Define and enforce strong validation plans (functional, environmental, EMC, field testing).

• Control BOM costs and secure critical components through double sourcing.

• Run formal go/no-go reviews before each hardware release.

• Participate in the selection and management of industrial partners and suppliers.

Team leadership & organization

• Manage the hardware team (electronics, mechanical, firmware, test).

• Structure hardware standards: quality, documentation, validation, and engineering best practices.

• Contribute to building and upskilling the hardware team.

👤 Profile

• Solid experience in electronic design and embedded systems.

• Proficiency in RF, high-speed design, and EMC/CE constraints.

• Experience across the full hardware development cycle, from prototype to industrialization.

• Good understanding of DFM / DFT / production challenges.

• Ability to work on complex products combining electronics, software and mecanics

• Strong prioritization skills, structured thinking, and execution rigor.

• Comfortable making decisions under cost, quality, and time constraints.

• Transparent communicator, able to align with Quality, Industrialization, and Executive teams.

• High energy, resilience, and strong product ownership mindset.

⭐ What will make the difference

We will pay special attention to candidates who:

• Have already led a hardware product from prototype to mass production and field deployment.

• Demonstrate a strong risk culture : anticipating issues early instead of reacting late.

• Combine technical depth with strategic clarity (able to zoom in on a routing issue and zoom out to rethink an architecture).

• Show evidence of raising the bar: improving processes, standards, validation rigor, or team performance.

• Are obsessed with real-world reliability, not just lab performance.

• Make complex technical constraints understandable to non-hardware stakeholders.

• Naturally simplify systems instead of adding complexity.

At Vizzia, we build hardware products deployed in real-world environments. Reliability is not optional.

If you enjoy structuring, delivering, recruiting, and raising technical standards — while keeping real customer impact at the center — this role is for you.

Benefits

🏡 Hybrid work

🏝 “Contrat cadre” and RTT (between 8-12 per year depending on the number of public holidays in the current year)

💻 A Mac or PC depending on your preferences

💸 BSPCE

🍜 60% coverage of meal vouchers worth €9 per worked day

🚃/🚲 Sustainable mobility allowance

🏥 Mutuelle (Alan)

💼 Offices located in central Paris (9th arrondissement)

☀️ Annual offsite with the whole team and plenty of company events