Hardware Engineering Manager

Bytebeam; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Bytebeam invites a Telematics Hardware Engineering Manager to lead automotive telematics hardware development from concept to field readiness. This player-coach role spans architecture, design reviews, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, field issues, and firmware debugging when needed.

You will collaborate with firmware, cloud, validation, operations, and product teams to ensure robust devices that endure real-world use and long field life.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in embedded hardware for automotive telematics.
• Strong experience with automotive development processes from development to scale.
• Expertise in hardware design, schematic/layout review, bring-up, and system debugging.
• Solid understanding of cellular/LTE, GNSS, CAN/OBD, automotive electronics, EMI/EMC, RF debugging.
• Experience with CAN/UART/SPI/I2C/USB/Ethernet debugging workflows.
• Knowledge of functional safety, reliability engineering, and automotive compliance.
• Experience coordinating with vendors, EMS partners, and manufacturing teams.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and lead high-execution teams.
• Strong people skills and cross-functional alignment capability.
• Ability to drive root-cause analysis across system-level issues.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hardware architecture for automotive telematics devices.
• Translate system requirements into board-level architecture and validation strategy.
• Lead design reviews, bring-up, validation, and release with clear ownership.

Skills

Embedded hardware

Automotive telematics

Hardware design review

System debugging

Cellular/LTE

GNSS

CAN/OBD

RF/EMI/EMC

Vendor & manufacturing

Leadership & hiring

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Firmware collaboration

Tools

Altium Designer

LTspice

Job description

Bytebeam builds the hardware and software stacks that power the next generation of smart connected vehicles. From device telemetry and remote diagnostics to OTA updates, alerts, and fleet-scale device management, Bytebeam helps teams ship connected products faster and operate them reliably in the field.

At Bytebeam, you will work close to both the device and the cloud. The hardware team does not stop at schematics or board bring-up. We care about what happens in the vehicle, in production, and after deployment.

Role Overview

About Bytebeam

Bytebeam builds the hardware and software stacks that power the next generation of smart connected vehicles. From device telemetry and remote diagnostics to OTA updates, alerts, and fleet-scale device management, Bytebeam helps teams ship connected products faster and operate them reliably in the field.

At Bytebeam, you will work close to both the device and the cloud. The hardware team does not stop at schematics or board bring-up. We care about what happens in the vehicle, in production, and after deployment.

We are hiring a Telematics Hardware Engineering Manager to lead development of automotive telematics hardware from concept to field readiness.

This is a player-coach role. You will be expected to get involved across architecture, design reviews, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, field issues, and sometimes firmware-level debugging when needed. You will work closely with firmware, cloud, manufacturing, validation, and business teams to ship robust products that survive the real world.

This role needs an overall problem solver. We are looking for someone who can connect the dots across hardware, firmware, reliability, compliance, manufacturing, and field behavior, and push issues to closure instead of treating them as someone else's boundary.

What You'll Do (Ownership Areas)

1) Product and Architecture Ownership

• Own end-to-end hardware architecture for automotive telematics devices.
• Translate system requirements into board-level architecture, interface choices, and validation strategy.
• Drive design decisions across cellular/LTE, GNSS, Bluetooth, CAN/OBD, automotive electronics, sensor, storage, and debug subsystems.
• Review schematics, PCB layouts, power architecture, RF decisions, and component choices with a high bar for reliability and manufacturability.

2) Team Leadership and Execution

• Build, manage, and mentor the hardware engineering team.
• Hire well and raise the quality bar across the team.
• Set milestones, execution plans, and review mechanisms for development, bring-up, validation, and release.
• Run design reviews, failure reviews, and release-readiness reviews with crisp ownership and follow-through.
• Work cross-functionally with firmware, cloud, validation, operations, and product teams to keep hardware execution aligned with product goals.

3) Development, Bring-up, and Debug

• Guide new board development from PoC to production hardware.
• Support board bring-up, power-on validation, interface testing, and system-level debugging.
• Drive root-cause analysis across analog, digital, power, RF, and communication issues.
• Partner with firmware teams on hardware-software integration across UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, USB, Ethernet, and related interfaces.

4) Compliance, Reliability, and Field Readiness

• Own validation planning for functional correctness, compliance, environmental reliability, and real-world abuse cases.
• Drive readiness for automotive and telematics-relevant requirements across EMI/EMC, ESD, vibration, ingress, thermal stress, reliability, and field-life expectations.
• Bring rigor around automotive development process and standards including functional safety, ISO 26262, ASPICE, DFMEA, and DVP&R where applicable.
• Work with external labs and certification partners when needed.
• Ensure products are ready not just for the lab, but for long-term field deployment and warranty life.

5) Manufacturing and Supplier Ownership

• Own execution with vendors, EMS partners, and component suppliers across design reviews, DFM, DFT, DFA, alternate components, and cost-risk tradeoffs.
• Drive antenna tuning, RF review, component lifecycle planning, and manufacturability improvements.
• Partner with operations and supply-chain teams on ramp readiness, yield issues, field returns, and corrective actions.
• Take products through the transition from development to scale, with a clear eye on quality, cost, reliability, and field performance.

6) Product Feedback Loop

• Close the loop between field issues, telemetry insights, validation learnings, and the next hardware revision.
• Help the team build better observability into devices so failures are diagnosable remotely, not just on the bench.
• Bring rigor to documentation, revision control, decision logs, and engineering communication.

Deliverables You'll Own

• Hardware architecture and design-review sign-off for new telematics products
• Schematic / layout review closure and release recommendations
• DVP&R, validation plans, reliability plans, and release readiness inputs
• Vendor review notes, component-risk assessments, and manufacturing readiness inputs
• Failure-analysis summaries, RCA closure, and design-improvement roadmaps
• Team planning, hiring inputs, and execution reporting

Must-Have Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in embedded hardware development for automotive telematics products
• Strong experience with automotive development process and taking products from development to scale in the market
• Exceptional expertise in hardware design, schematic review, PCB design review, board bring-up, and system debugging
• Strong understanding of cellular/LTE, GNSS, CAN/OBD, automotive electronics, EMI/EMC, and RF debug
• Experience with communication interfaces such as CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, and related debug workflows
• Strong grounding in functional safety, reliability engineering, and automotive compliance
• Must-have experience working with vendors, EMS partners, manufacturing teams, and cross-functional engineering teams
• Proven ability to hire well, mentor engineers, and lead teams with a high execution bar
• Strong people skills and the ability to drive alignment across teams while staying hands-on
• Ability to drive root-cause analysis and solve problems at an overall system level, not just inside one subsystem

Good-to-Have (Strong Plus)

• Experience with AIS-140 or similar telematics compliance and certification workflows
• Familiarity with LTE Cat 1 / Cat 4 class products, GNSS performance validation, eSIM, and vehicle diagnostics workflows
• Exposure to OBD, UDS, RS-485, BLE peripherals, backup battery systems, and low-power state design
• Experience with Altium Designer, LTspice or similar simulation tools
• Experience with manufacturing test strategy, ESS, HALT, environmental validation, and field-failure analysis
• Familiarity with device-cloud workflows such as OTA, remote logs, diagnostics, and telemetry-driven issue triage
• Hands-on firmware debugging or firmware ownership experience in embedded products

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who can lead from the front. You should be comfortable reviewing architecture in the morning, debugging a board in the afternoon, and aligning vendors or internal teams by evening. You should care about products surviving weak networks, installation variance, and long field life, not just passing bring-up.

This role will fit someone who enjoys building real hardware, leading strong engineers, and shipping automotive telematics devices that are deeply integrated with modern device-cloud systems.