Canary's award-winning hospitality software improves the guest experience, streamlines operations and boosts revenue. Trusted by 20,000+ hotels worldwide. Backed by Insight and Y Combinator.
About the role
Canary sells a self check-in kiosk to hotels, and this role owns it. This is Canary's first hardware hire: we have no in-house industrial, mechanical, or electrical engineers, so outside design consultants and the factory do the design work. You'll write the specification, select the design consultants and the factory, and review every design — rejecting any design that isn't correct. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Took one hardware product from the first specification to units in the field at a small company, and owned the whole product — not one part of it (e.g. only the enclosure, the circuit board, or the schedule)
- Designed and built the hardware, not bought a finished terminal (e.g. an Elo touchscreen in a standard enclosure)
- Does the work: has done substantial hands-on hardware work personally in the last six months, not only through a team
- Has managed outside design consultants and/or a factory, including rejecting a design that was not correct
- Knows enough industrial, mechanical, and electrical design to find errors in a consultant's or factory's work (does not need to produce CAD)
- Lives in New York City or will relocate
More about this role
Think about your last hotel stay. Did you skip the front desk line with mobile check-in? Message the staff for extra pillows? Order a late-night snack with a tap on your phone? Then you’ve likely run into Canary in the wild.
Canary Technologies is the leading agentic AI platform for hotel and guest management, powering the digital infrastructure for more than 20,000 hotels in 125+ countries. The world's most renowned hospitality brands, including Marriott International, Four Seasons and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, partner with us to increase revenue, improve operations and elevate the guest experience.
We’ve executed the largest deployment of autonomous AI systems in hospitality, building technology that fundamentally redefines how guests and hotels interact. It’s made us one of the top-funded hotel technology companies in the world, with nearly $200M raised to date.
Canary has been recognized as a 2024 and 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, and swept the 2026 HotelTechAwards , including Best Place to Work, #1 Guest Experience Platform, and the Hotelier’s Choice Award . We’re scaling our team to bring innovation to life faster than...
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