Founding Hardware Lead - Devin (The Devin Experience)
Location: Toronto or Boston preferred | REMOTE (North American time zones) Type: Full-time Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity Apply: https://experiencedevin.com/jobs
About the Company
We're building an intimate device that responds in real time to a live AI-generated story and to her body: an app-connected, sensor-equipped vibrator synced to an interactive audio story that AI performs live. The device follows the story, and the story follows her body.
Our first 1,000 pre-orders sold out, and we've raised a $1.5M pre-seed. We are an all-woman founding team:
- CEO: Exited founder and HBS grad
- CTO: Multi-time founder and MIT alum
- COO/CPO: Helped lead Wattpad to a $650M exit
The Role
This is our employee #1 position. You will own hardware architecture and take us from prototype through EVT/DVT, certification, and production, with trips to Shenzhen at key milestones.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and change our China partners' schematics and C/C++ BLE firmware (ESP32 / nRF).
- Co-design the BLE protocol under tight latency budgets.
- Integrate the IMU and body sensors (separating real body signals from the device's own vibration).
Requirements
- 8+ years building hardware products with hands-on embedded work.
- Proven experience shipping connected hardware end-to-end (consumer, wearable, medical, or robotics).
- Experience going through at least one production ramp with a contract manufacturer.
Bonus Skills:
- Haptics/motor control (ERM/LRA, PWM, waveform tuning).
- Real-time systems.
- Body-worn sensing.
- FCC/CE/Bluetooth SIG certification.
How to Apply
Email seema@experiencedevin.com with your resume or LinkedIn profile and a short note on one product you shipped, covering:
- What you owned.
- The hardest hardware problem you solved.
- How you knew it worked.