As Engineering Lead, you will lead and grow Fiducial's multidisciplinary engineering team across software and hardware domains. You will professionalize and scale existing engineering foundations, ensuring robust, scalable processes aligned with company growth. Balancing technical credibility with people leadership, you will partner with the CTO and COO to strengthen engineering as a cohesive, high-performing system during a critical scale-up phase.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of software, hardware, and embedded engineers, including mentoring junior engineers and interns.
Strengthen and evolve the engineering organization structure, ensuring clear ownership, accountability, and healthy team dynamics.
Ensure engineering capacity planning and project staffing align with company priorities and delivery commitments.
Strengthen and evolve engineering processes to support scalability across development and field operations.
Oversee strategic initiatives that elevate effective hardware–software integration and system-level performance across deployed solutions.
Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, and CTO by translating product requirements into actionable engineering plans.
Collaborate closely with DevOps and IT Infrastructure to Introduce and adapt pragmatic Agile practices, CI/CD pipelines, and quality controls appropriate to the company’s growth stage.
Support deployed systems by acting as an escalation point for complex technical issues, in collaboration with relevant engineers and operations.
Act as Chief of Staff to CTO by contributing on his behalf to planning and prioritization of engineering work, balancing technical debt, new features, and deployment needs.
Conduct regular 1:1s and performance discussions, focusing on growth, ownership, and accountability.
Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers as the team grows.

Requirements

Proven experience managing multidisciplinary engineering team(s) in a hardware–software environment.
Experience scaling engineering practices in a startup or scale-up context.
Ability to coach and develop engineers across different experience levels.
Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across functions.
Strong technical background in software systems, embedded systems, and/or hardware–software integration.
Working knowledge of Agile development, CI/CD, and modern engineering tooling.
Comfortable working in environments with regulatory, safety, or defence-related constraints.

Benefits

Money of course.
25 vacation days per year.
Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop.
(Really) flexible working hours and option to work from home 2 days per week.
Working with an highly motivated, international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with amazing technology.
Significant ownership and influence over how engineering is done.
The opportunity to build scalable systems and teams during a critical growth phase.