Hardware Engineering manager / 80 - 100 K

Context

250 local authorities rely on Vizzia's hardware – cameras, stations, accessories – deployed in the field, in real conditions, every day. By the end of 2026 the number will be 450. Scaling from here is first and foremost a hardware challenge. The next product iterations need to ship on time, at industrial‑grade quality, and with the technical foundations that will hold at scale. That’s what this role is about.

What You’ll Do

• Engineering leadership & team development
• Own the technical roadmap for the R&D team: prioritize, sequence, and make the calls that keep the team focused
• Set the engineering bar: documentation standards, design reviews, validation rigor, and the habits that separate a good team from a great one
• Be the person engineers come to when a problem is hard and know how to unblock them without solving everything yourself
• Drive recruiting and onboarding as the team scales. You help define who we hire, and how we make them effective fast
• Structure clean interfaces with Backend and Operations: not a nice‑to‑have, but part of your accountability
• Architecture & technical decisions
• Own system‑level architecture decisions across electronics, mechanics, and firmware, balancing performance, cost, and long‑term maintainability
• Anticipate EMC/CE/NDAA certification constraints from day one, not as an afterthought
• Make technical constraints legible to non‑hardware stakeholders, without dumbing things down
• Simplify where others add complexity. If a design can be cleaner, make it cleaner
• Industrialization & quality
• Integrate DFM/DFT constraints at design stage, not at pre‑production review
• Define validation plans that go beyond the lab: functional, environmental, EMC, field testing
• Control BOM costs and secure critical components through double sourcing
• Run go/no‑go reviews before each hardware release, and make the call

Who You Are

• You've led engineering teams: you know how to set direction, give feedback, and hold a high bar without micromanaging
• You have strong hands‑on experience in electronic design and embedded systems, and you've shipped products through the full cycle: prototype, industrialization, mass production, field deployment
• You're comfortable across the three dimensions of hardware: electronics, mechanics, firmware, and you use that breadth to make better architectural calls, not to become the single point of failure
• You have a real‑world reliability obsession. Lab performance is table stakes. What matters is what happens at deployment
• You can zoom in on a routing issue and zoom out to rethink an architecture – and you know when to do which
• You make the engineering team around you more effective. That's how you measure yourself

Benefits

• Hybrid work
• Contrat cadre and RTT (between 8 and 12 days per year depending on public holidays)
• A Mac or PC depending on your preferences
• BSPCE
• 60% coverage of meal vouchers worth €9 per worked day
• Sustainable mobility allowance
• Mutuelle (Alan)
• Offices located in central Paris (9th arrondissement)
• Annual offsite with the whole team and plenty of company events