This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Head of Engineering based in India.
This is a pivotal technical leadership opportunity within an early-stage wearable sensing and robotics workplace. The role owns end-to-end engineering execution for a body-worn sensing platform, from system architecture through production. You will lead a distributed team of hardware specialists across India and the US while remaining deeply hands-on with critical technical challenges. The position spans power systems, sensor synchronization, firmware, embedded Linux, mechanical engineering, and system integration. Your decisions will directly influence product reliability, wearability, performance, and the capabilities of the underlying technology. This is an on-site role in India with regular travel to San Francisco, approximately one week per month.
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Accountabilities:
Own end-to-end technical execution of a body-worn sensing platform, from architecture and prototyping through production and shipping.




Lead and coordinate a distributed engineering team across India and the US, maintaining technical quality and effective collaboration across time zones.
Define and maintain the overall hardware system architecture, ensuring mechanical, electrical, power, sensor, and firmware subsystems integrate into a cohesive wearable product.
Make critical design and integration decisions involving power systems, sensor synchronization, firmware, embedded Linux, and mechanical structures.
Translate product requirements into clear, actionable engineering briefs that enable distributed teams to execute effectively.
Apply first-principles engineering to power architecture, including multi-rail battery systems, protection circuits, regulator selection, inrush behavior, brownouts, and schematic analysis.
Solve complex sensor synchronization challenges involving mismatched sample rates, variable bus latency, firmware t

📌 Head of Engineering (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India