Hardware Engineering Manager

Coram AI • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.
You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.
Coram builds physical security hardware: cameras, door-access controllers, intercoms. Real boxes that get screwed to walls in schools and offices, with electronics and AI inside them.
The access-control line is already shipping and installed at customer sites. You inherit it, keep it healthy, and then build the next two product lines from concept to mass production: edge-enabled cameras and intercoms. We want both inside a year. The industry norm for a single hardware cycle is 9 to 12 months, so that target is deliberately aggressive.
You are the first dedicated hardware leader at the company. The engineer who built the access-control line has moved up to lead Product, so the function is yours to own and to build.
How we build
Design happens in Sunnyvale. Manufacturing sits with specialist contract manufacturing partners, who build, test and certify the finished product to our design.
That makes this job mostly engineering and part partnership management, across a long distance and several time zones. You will have a small design team here and a much larger group on the manufacturing side. Getting excellent product out of that arrangement is a craft, and it is the part of the role that matters most.
We're on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.
Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex-Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex-Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you're excited to work on mission-critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.

Requirements

• At least five years in production mechanical or electrical engineering, with a spike in one of them.
• Personally shipped a product through an external contract manufacturer at volume.
• Owned the factory relationship directly, rather than handing the design to a TPM or a manufacturing engineer at the transfer point.
• Owned a full design transfer package: CAD, BOM, assembly instructions, test procedures, quality criteria, drawings.
• Taken products through certification (FCC at minimum; CE and UL are relevant).
• Shipped fast under constraint, and can discuss choices made to hit a date, and discuss a timeline that slipped and what was changed afterwards.
• Built a process that outlived you (e.g., a quality system, a stage gate, change control, supplier qualification), ideally because you saw a gap and nobody asked you to.
• Grown engineers and can point at specific people and where they are now.

Nice To Haves

• Low-voltage connected devices: drones, wearables, body cameras, security cameras, smart home. Anything where a partner delivered a finished, boxed unit rather than parts assembled in-house.
• At a large company, ownership of a whole product rather than one component. Platform design engineering, or the equivalent.
• Edge compute, imaging sensors or DSP experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the shipping access-control line: quality, field performance, change control, ongoing cost.
• Own two new product lines end to end: Concept, design, EVT through PVT, certification, ramp, mass production.
• Own the contract manufacturer relationship, including the design transfer package and everything in it.
• Perform hands-on engineering: CAD and drawings, or schematics and board bring-up, depending on where you spike.
• Define and implement the processes the function runs on: stage gates, quality systems, supplier qualification, test protocols.
• Hire two hardware engineering hires this year, and build a team after that.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed