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Founding engineer - Robotics – Southeast Asia – $80k – $160k

Hexwired Recruitment are hiring for a cutting edge robotics startup based in Southeast Asia, now looking for a founding engineer to spearhead their data collection hardware ecosystem.

The company are rapidly expanding and are seeking a founding engineer with a strong background in end to end hardware design and robotics.

This is a founding engineer role primarily focussed on hands on hardware design and growing an onsite mechatronics team.

Key skills:

  • Degree qualified in Electronics engineering or similar discipline

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in hardware design and mechatronic prototyping.

  • Comfortable with hands-on electronics integration (soldering, wiring harnesses, microcontroller integration like Arduino/RPi/ESP32).

  • Proven ability to work quickly in an R&D setting, turning abstract ideas into functional physical prototypes under tight timelines.

  • Robotics engineering background

    The company are looking to offer $80k to $160k alongside a generous benefits package including equity. If you’re interested in this founding engineer role, please apply

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