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Head of engineering

Sydney
The Onset
Posted: 27 January
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Theres a moment in every deep-tech hardware company where the tech is no longer the bottleneck; alignment is. The prototypes work the physics checks out the market signals are there but the organisation needs someone who has actually walked the long road from this should work to this works every time for customers.

This role is built for that person - the engineer-turned-leader who has shipped real hardware and carries the quiet confidence of someone whos done it before.


Your background

This is for someone who has taken hardware from early-stage development through to something customers actually use. The kind of engineer who has watched products move from rough prototypes to working systems and then into manufacturing. Someone who understands how decisions in one discipline ripple through everything else and has enough breadth to guide a team with a lot of moving parts.


Different profiles could fit but the strongest candidates tend to come from :

* Mechanical engineers with aerodynamics or complex system experience
* People who have worked across structural design airflow thermal constraints and multi-discipline integration. Theyve been close to real testing real iteration and real product decisions.


Optical engineers with hands-on hardware experience

Not just pure theory; people whove worked on alignment opto-mechanical assemblies environmental sensitivity and the practical side of getting optical systems to behave in real conditions.


Photovoltaics or power-system engineers who can work across electronics

Engineers who understand energy conversion power electronics embedded constraints and how these systems come together in a physical product.


Generalist hardware engineers whove been in startups before

People whove worked across multiple disciplines out of necessity embedded mechanical power optics whatever the product required. Theyve owned customer trials demos prototypes and key design decisions.


Regardless of discipline the ideal candidate has :

* Real hardware build / test experience
* Exposure to bringing something from R&D into manufacturing
* Comfort managing multi-discipline teams
* The ability to make decisions with incomplete information
* A track record of improving the way engineering teams work
* The clarity to translate technical progress into product direction
* Experience in fast-moving environments where things change quickly


Whats in it for you

You get to take a genuinely new hardware technology to market

You set the engineering culture

You have real influence on the product

You run a proper multi-discipline engineering effort

You own the R&D manufacturing shift


Clear upward trajectory into CTO

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in exploring please reach out to Thaís at .

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

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