Hardware Engineering Manager
About The Position
About Glacier Hey, we're Glacier! Series A startup based in San Francisco tackling one of the world's most pressing problems: trash. Did you know that in the US, we send over half of our recyclables to the landfill? We're working to fix that. In doing so, we'll also be reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, and depletion of natural resources. Glacier builds custom sorting robots designed to sort apart recyclables as well as AI-powered business analytics that enable recyclers to superpower their plants and improve our society's circularity. From major CPG companies like Colgate and Amazon to municipal recycling facilities, our clients trust us to turn recycling data into actionable insights. Our technology has been recognized as one of TIME's Best Inventions and featured in a TIME documentary, TechCrunch, Fortune, and CBS. The Role We're looking for an experienced Hardware Engineering Manager to lead Glacier's hardware and robotics development. You'll own the hardware roadmap and execution, lead our mechanical and electrical engineering teams, and ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, manufacturable, and cost-effective. This role reports directly to our Co-Founder and CTO and will play a key role in shaping both our hardware architecture and how the team operates as we scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hardware engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams
- Strong technical background in robotics, mechatronics, pneumatics, structural design, and DFM
- Experience taking hardware from prototype through production, including contract manufacturing and supply chain
- Experience building hardware for real-world deployment
- Strong project judgment across engineering capacity, customer timelines, cost, risk, and deployment constraints
Nice To Haves
- Experience at an early-stage startup (<50 employees)
- Industrial automation, robotics, or heavy machinery experience
- Hardware deployed across multiple customer sites
- Edge deployments or on-site hardware troubleshooting experience
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and execution of Glacier's hardware and robotics roadmap in close partnership with Product Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop our hardware engineering team, keeping engineers focused and unblocked
- Drive technical decisions and architectural tradeoffs across complex hardware systems
- Establish lightweight engineering processes that improve execution, quality, and reliability
- Partner with Operations, Manufacturing, Field Service, and Software to resolve cross-functional issues
- Ensure machines can be manufactured, deployed and supported reliably at scale
- Balance engineering capacity, customer timelines, deployment requirements, cost, and risk
- Step in as an IC when needed to unblock critical technical challenges
Benefits
- competitive equity compensation
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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