Lead Hardware Engineer
We are developing innovative and affordable consumer products with incredible user experience to accelerate our energy transition by recycling wasted heat from next-generation computers.
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About the job
We are looking for a motivated and experienced Lead Hardware Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for designing and defining brand new hardware products. You will lead the development of connectors, firmware protocols, cards, electric chargers, controllers, and chips for a consumer hardware start up looking to scale up a prototype to full scale manufacturing.
We are an agile company.
This means you will be working in strong integrated partnership with other engineering functions (Thermal, Electronics, Mechanical etc), Technical Buyers, Supplier Quality, and Process Engineers.
Responsibilities
Implementation and industrialization of new products
- Validate the technical choices (methods for manufacturing goods) and their industrial feasibility (production capacity, process reliability) by defining the tests and manufacturing trials.
- Select suppliers and production tools.
- Multi-sourcing of suppliers, with a view to a design for resilient rather than over cost
- Design, implement and coordinate processes and manufacturing lines.
- Implementation of tests on new products.
- Implementation of risk analyzes on the product.
Continuous improvement of industrialization processes
- Organize the improvement of products and processes.
- Identify defects (at the level of the processes themselves, or at the level of supply flows, etc.), identify the corrective actions to be implemented and deploy them.
- Optimize production tools, implement new manufacturing processes.
- Optimize production costs.
- Set up traceability of the tests carried out.
Industrial validation of R&D
- Define Production methods
- Quality study
- Definition of production tools
- Definition of assembly methods
Supply chain management
- Supply chain planning & budget management
- Inventory and order management
- Orders Management
- Logistics Tracking
- Supervision of the operator(s) internally
Hard skills
- Fluent English both written and spoken
- You know the issues relating to the production of electronic cards made in-house
- You are familiar with a wide range of industrial processes
- You are comfortable establishing relationships with suppliers and subcontractors and you know how to firmly defend the interests of the company (method, deadlines, price, quality, etc.)
Experience
- 5-10 years of experience conducting manufacturing for new consumer products with mechanical and electronic constraints
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Mise en place et de l’industrialisation de nouveaux produits
- Valider les choix techniques (méthodes de fabrication des biens) et leur faisabilité industrielle (capacité de production, fiabilité des procédés) en définissant les tests et essais de fabrication.
- Choix des fournisseurs et des outils de production.
- Multisourcing des fournisseurs, en vue d’un design for resilent plutôt qu’over cost
- Concevoir, mettre en place et coordonner les procédés et lignes de fabrication.
- Mise en place des teste sur les nouveaux produits.
- Mise en place des analyses de risque sur le produit.
Amélioration continue des processus d’industrialisation
- Organiser l’amélioration des produits et des process.
- Identifier les dysfonctionnements (au niveau des procédés mêmes, ou au niveau des flux d’approvisionnement…), cerner les actions correctives à mettre en œuvre et les déployer.
- Optimiser des outils de production, mettre en place de nouveaux procédés de fabrication.
- Optimiser les coûts de production.
- Mettre en place une traçabilité des tests réalisés.
Validation industrielle de la R&D
- Etude des méthodes de production
- Etude de la qualité
- Définition des outils de production
- Définition des méthodes d’assemblage
Gestion de la supply chain
- Gestion du planning & budget de la supply chain
- Gestion des stocks et des commandes
- Passer les commandes auprès des fournisseurs
- Suivi des commandes fournisseurs
- Suivi de la logistique
- Supervision de(s) opérateur(s) en interne
Hard skills
- Anglais courant autant à l’écrit qu’à l’oral
- Tu connais les enjeux du relatifs à la production de cartes électroniques faites in-house
- Tu es familier avec un vaste panel de procédés industriels
- Tu as de l’aisance pour établir des relations avec des fournisseurs et sous-traitants et tu sais défendre avec fermeté les intérêts de l’entreprise (méthode, délais, prix, qualité, ...)
Experience
- You have more than ten years of experience conducting manufacturing for new consumer products with mechanical and electronic constraints
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Role
- VP or Manufacturing
- Locations
- Nantes

Nantes
About Hestiia
We are developing innovative and affordable consumer products with incredible user experience to accelerate our energy transition by recycling heat.
Lead Hardware Engineer
We are developing innovative and affordable consumer products with incredible user experience to accelerate our energy transition by recycling wasted heat from next-generation computers.
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