Founding Hardware product Lead
Wearables (Smart Ring) · Chennai · productization, manufacturing and mechanical / industrial design
Founding role · meaningful equity · Wualt
About Wualt
Wualt is building a cellular-connected personal-safety wearable, a smart ring that can get someone help in an unsafe moment. It lives on a person's hand every hour of every day, so how it is built, how it seals, how it wears, and how reliably it comes off a production line are central to the product. We are past prototype and moving toward production, and building our founding hardware team.
The role
Own the physical product and take it to production. You lead hardware: you own the form factor and the mechanical and industrial design, you drive productization and the manufacturing ramp, and you build and run the vendor relationships across China and India that turn our design into a reliable, sealed, manufacturable device at volume. Electronics and firmware are handled in-house; your centre of gravity is mechanical, industrial design, manufacturing and vendors.
What you will own
Productization and manufacturing: NPI end to end, DFM and DFA, tooling, EVT / DVT / PVT, pilot builds through to mass production, and ownership of yield, quality and cost.
Vendors and supply chain (China and India): build and manage relationships with EMS, ODM, component and tooling partners across Shenzhen and India; source, negotiate, and own quality and timelines; drive the sealed enclosure and final assembly to a working, manufacturable result.
Mechanical and industrial design: own the mechanical architecture and enclosure, the form, the colour, material and finish, and how the device wears; tolerance stack-ups; and sealing to IP67 and beyond, all in a ring-scale form factor.
Hardware leadership: set the hardware technical direction, work closely with and grow the electronics and firmware engineer, and coordinate contract RF, antenna and certification.
Who you are
8 to 15+ years in hardware, having ta
📌 Hardware product lead (Chennai)
🏢 Wualt
📍 Chennai