Director, R&D

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
IoT and Embedded Systems
Tactacam

Tactacam

Tactacam is a company that specializes in providing hunters and outdoor sports enthusiasts with filming-related products and hunting cameras. Their cellular cameras offer limitless opportunities to capture the outdoors, designed by hunters for hunters....

Household Durables
51-250
Founded 2013

Description

  • Provide architectural oversight across Mechanical, Electrical, and Firmware engineering teams.
  • Act as the final technical authority for resolving cross-disciplinary trade-offs and disputes.
  • Lead design reviews, tolerance analysis, risk assessments, and validation planning.
  • Establish engineering best practices, standards, and design guidelines.
  • Guide products from concept, prototyping, EVT/DVT/PVT, through production ramp.
  • Optimize designs for cost, performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
  • Partner with JDM/ODM manufacturers on design intent, tooling strategy, and production readiness.
  • Evaluate offshore partners’ firmware and electrical designs for mass production robustness.
  • Support factory builds and resolve production issues during validation and ramp-up.
  • Mentor engineers and provide structured technical coaching and feedback.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of product development experience with complex, connected electronics.
  • 10+ years of experience mentoring and developing engineers.
  • Proven experience scaling consumer electronics from prototypes to high-volume production of 50k+ units per month.
  • Advanced knowledge of Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
  • Experience working with JDM/ODM manufacturing partners.
  • Deep technical fluency in Mechanical Design (SolidWorks/Creo), Electrical/PCBA layout, and Embedded Firmware Architecture.
  • Extensive experience with cellular-connected devices (LTE/5G), RF integration, and low-power battery management.
  • Experience with PLM systems and engineering change processes.
  • Strong experience in engineering documentation and drawing standards.
  • Experience developing outdoor consumer or industrial electronic products.
  • Proven ability to lead complex programs from concept to mass production.
  • Ability to travel to offshore manufacturing sites in Asia for tool trials, line audits, and production ramp-up support.
  • Project management experience, preferred.
  • Experience supporting international manufacturing builds, preferred.
  • Knowledge of environmental and reliability testing standards for outdoor products, preferred.
  • Familiarity with FMEA, GD&T, and tolerance stack analysis, preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid time off (PTO).
  • Disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.

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