R&D Hardware Lead, IoT for Smart Agriculture

Farmbot Monitoring Solutions

Sydney

On-site

AUD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Farmbot seeks a hands-on electronics engineer to design, build and bring to market rugged hardware at the heart of its platform. You will lead a four‑engineer R&D team, spending ~70% on engineering and 30% on leadership, reporting to CEO/CTO.

Based in our Sydney Roseville office, you will own hardware roadmap from concept to certification and field performance, aligning with strategy and customer needs. You will work with the CEO/CTO and cross‑functional teams to deliver compliant, reliable,

Qualifications

Hands-on hardware engineering leader with track record shipping commercial electronics/IoT products.
Experience taking products through compliance and certification (EMC, radio, electrical safety).
“Production-ready” mindset: design for manufacturing and scalable volume.
Ability to lead a small team while contributing technically.
Experience with IoT devices, remote, low-power or off-grid designs.
Knowledge of RF/wireless tech and antenna integration.

Responsibilities

Define system architecture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout and bring-up.
Review or produce architecture, power, MCU interfaces and hardware debugging.
Build and test prototypes, iterate designs to production release.
Design for remote, battery/solar-powered IoT devices with satellite/cellular comms.
Collaborate with firmware/software teams to integrate hardware with cloud.
Lead design reviews, DFM and DFT practices; perform field reliability testing.