Founding Hardware Lead
Lead hardware development → ship intimate AI-synced device
Design, review, and integrate hardware for a revolutionary vibrator synced to AI-generated audio stories. Own architecture, firmware, sensor integration, and production ramp, including trips to Shenzhen. Be employee #1 on an all-woman founding team.
Why This Role?
Be a pivotal part of a groundbreaking, intimate tech product with an experienced all-woman founding team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead hardware architecture and review schematics from China partners
- Modify and optimize C/C++ BLE firmware (ESP32 / nRF) for tight latency budgets
- Co-design and implement the BLE protocol
- Integrate IMU and body sensors to distinguish body signals from device vibration
- Manage EVT/DVT, certification, and production processes
- Travel to Shenzhen for key milestones and production oversight
Requirements
- Proven experience shipping connected hardware end-to-end (consumer, wearable, medical, or robotics)
- 8+ years of hands-on embedded hardware product development
- Experience with production ramp-up with a contract manufacturer
- Bonus: expertise in haptics/motor control (ERM/LRA, PWM, waveform tuning), real-time systems, body-worn sensing, FCC/CE/Bluetooth SIG certif
Required Skills
Indonesia Context
- Working Hours Overlap:
- Flexible — work your own hours
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Original description from HN Who is Hiring
Devin (The Devin Experience) | Founding Hardware Lead | Toronto or Boston preferred | REMOTE (North American time zones) | Full-time | Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity | https://experiencedevin.com/jobs We're building an intimate device that responds in real time to a live AI-generated story and to her body: an app-connected, sensor-equipped vibrator synced to an interactive audio story that AI performs live. The device follows the story, and the story follows her body. Our first 1,000 pre-orders sold out, and we've raised a $1.5M pre-seed. All-woman founding team (CEO is an exited founder and HBS grad; CTO is a multi-time founder and MIT alum; COO/CPO helped lead Wattpad to a $650M exit). This is employee #1. You'll own hardware architecture, review and change our China partners' schematics and C/C++ BLE firmware (ESP32 / nRF), co-design the BLE protocol under tight latency budgets, integrate the IMU and body sensors (separating real body signals from the device's own vibration), and take us from prototype through EVT/DVT, certification and production, with trips to Shenzhen at key milestones. You've shipped connected hardware end to end (consumer, wearable, medical or robotics), have 8+ years building hardware products with hands-on embedded work, and have been through at least one production ramp with a contract manufacturer. Bonus: haptics/motor control (ERM/LRA, PWM, waveform tuning), real-time systems, body-worn sensing, FCC/CE/Bluetooth SIG certification. Apply: email morgan@experiencedevin.com with your resume or LinkedIn and a short note on one product you shipped: what you owned, the hardest hardware problem you solved, and how you knew it worked.
Salary Context
Similar Design roles on LokerDollar pay around $212.5k/yr (range $117.4k–405k/yr, n=52 active listings).
Market context
- UNKNOWNThis listing states no pay. Role median is $212,500/year (n=52 pay-disclosing listings).
- VERIFIEDDevin (The Devin Experience): 1 postings in the last 3 months, 1 all-time on LokerDollar.
- VERIFIEDCompany first seen Oct 1, 2026.
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