Lead R&D Hardware Engineer
🎯 Mission
Your mission is to lead Vizzia’s Hardware R&D 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 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 (Q2–Q4 2026) are met with detailed plans (Gantt, risk register, dependencies).
Anticipate technical and industrial risks at least two milestones ahead.
Escalate and arbitrate cost / quality / timeline trade-offs early and clearly.
Architecture & technical excellence
Design robust, modular, certifiable electronic architectures (ESP32, RF, high-speed, SoC/DSP).
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.
Team leadership & organization
Lead and grow the hardware team (electronics, mechanical, firmware, test).
Recruit key team members and raise the technical bar.
Clarify ownership, roles, and priorities.
Implement effective R&D rituals focused on decisions and execution.
Develop autonomy and technical ownership across the team.
Technology vision & benchmarking
Conduct active technical and competitive benchmarking.
Challenge existing designs and drive simpler, more scalable architectures.
👤 Profile
Strong background in embedded electronics, with hands-on PCB experience.
Expertise in RF, high-speed design, and EMC/CE constraints.
Proven experience in hardware project management and industrialization.
Successful people management experience, with a track record of team development.
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).
Have successfully scaled or restructured a hardware team.
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