RAMP UP
1 - 10 employees
Founded 2018
🎯 Recruiter
👥 HR Tech
Recruitment • HR Tech
RAMP UP is a recruitment and talent platform focused on matching technical talent with tech startups. The site hosts job listings for engineering and related roles, offers a career site powered by Teamtailor, and emphasizes accelerating growth for startup employers and hiring candidates. It appears to operate as a recruiting/HR-tech service connecting employers and job-seekers, with listings primarily for Auckland and remote positions.
Lead Hardware Engineer
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🕒 March 24
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RAMP UP
1 - 10 employees
Founded 2018
🎯 Recruiter
👥 HR Tech
Recruitment • HR Tech
RAMP UP is a recruitment and talent platform focused on matching technical talent with tech startups. The site hosts job listings for engineering and related roles, offers a career site powered by Teamtailor, and emphasizes accelerating growth for startup employers and hiring candidates. It appears to operate as a recruiting/HR-tech service connecting employers and job-seekers, with listings primarily for Auckland and remote positions.
📋 Description
• Lead the full product development lifecycle from concept to production, including electronics, firmware/software, and enclosure design. • Design new products to expand Timescapes’ hardware catalog. • Create and maintain software across high-level software applications, embedded linux systems, and low level microcontroller firmware. • Refine & improve existing established Timescapes products. • Manage & coordinate with external industrial design and contract manufacturing (CM) partners. • Collaborate with manufacturing houses to oversee prototype builds, testing procedures, and production transition. • Establish relationships with suppliers locally and overseas for core components such as batteries, modules, and cable assemblies. • Work with supply chain and logistics teams to support production, component sourcing, and distribution. • Create and maintain comprehensive design documentation, build instructions, test plans, and manufacturing guides.
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a closely related technical field. • Experience bringing a product from concept all the way to market. • Proven experience in managing not just the electrical & firmware design, but coordinating mechanical designers, manufacturers & post-release lifecycle support. • Demonstrated experience (ideally 5+ years) in embedded hardware development, including schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, testing, and debugging complex systems. • Strong hands-on experience with Yocto embedded Linux development, including kernel configuration, device trees, root filesystem customization. • Solid understanding across various hardware domains: digital/analog circuits, power management, communication interfaces and system integration. • Experience designing secure IoT systems and best practices. • Ability to own projects end-to-end, manage competing priorities, and work effectively with significant autonomy. • Proven understanding of DFM/DFT principles and direct experience working with contract manufacturers (CMs) and external design partners. • Knowledge and experience taking products through certification processes (e.g., CE, FCC, RCM, UL). • Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills with a curious, growth-oriented mindset in a fast-paced environment. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to clearly articulate technical concepts.
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive compensation and equity package • Health insurance • 5% kiwisaver contribution • EAP & wellbeing support
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