At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.
About the role
As our first Hardware Technical Program Manager, based at our San Jose office, you'll be the technical leader who takes Hark's devices from engineering builds to mass production. You'll sit alongside our product design, electrical, and systems teams in San Jose, and partner closely with our in-region program manager in Asia to land every build at our contract manufacturers and suppliers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years as a technical or engineering program manager in consumer electronics hardware, with at least two products taken from architecture through mass production
- Technical depth in at least one hardware commodity: camera, display, enclosure and mechanical, battery, acoustics, or antenna
- Hands-on NPI experience
- Demonstrated CM and component supplier management: selection, qualification, tooling and capacity planning, and schedule management
- Understanding of the data used to drive decisions: capability studies (Cp/Cpk), yield and defect Paretos, DOEs, and measurement system analysis (gauge R&R)
- Comfortable operating across the U.S.–Asia time gap and traveling internationally to supplier and manufacturing sites
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.
As our first Hardware Technical Program Manager, based at our San Jose office, you'll be the technical leader who takes Hark's devices from engineering builds to mass production. You'll sit alongside our product design, electrical, and systems teams in San Jose, and partner closely with our in-region program manager in Asia to land every build at our contract manufacturers and suppliers. This role is part program leader, part hands-on engineer: you'll own schedules and...
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