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Hardware Engineer, Power

Hark · San Jose · On-site

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About Hark

At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.

About the role

We are looking for a Hardware Engineer to own the end-to-end power architecture of our next-generation portable devices. You will be responsible for ensuring our products are safe, efficient, and long-lasting. From selecting the right battery chemistry to fine-tuning PMIC registers and creating complex power models, you will ensure every milliwatt is accounted for.

What they're looking for

  • Education: BS/MS in Electrical Engineering
  • PMIC Expertise: Hands-on experience integrating and configuring high-performance PMICs (e.g., Qualcomm, TI, Nordic, or Maxim)
  • Battery Tech: Deep understanding of Battery Management Systems (BMS), including fuel gauging algorithms and state-of-charge (SoC) estimation
  • Precision Measurement: Expert-level skills using power analyzers, electronic loads, and high-resolution current sense tools
  • PDN Integrity: Strong understanding of PCB layout for power, focusing on minimizing losses and managing high-current paths
More about this role

Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.

We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.

To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.

We are looking for a Hardware Engineer to own the end-to-end power architecture of our next-generation portable devices. You will be responsible for ensuring our products are safe, efficient, and long-lasting. From selecting the right battery chemistry to fine-tuning PMIC registers and creating complex power models, you will ensure every milliwatt is accounted for.

  • Define the power distribution network (PDN) and select key components, including PMICs, chargers, fuel gauges,...

Read the full posting on Hark's site ↗

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