Leader, Commercial Hardware Platform

About the Role

We are an environmental technology company deploying industrial sensing infrastructure into real-world wastewater and renewable energy environments and delivering data-as-a-service to customers.

Our core technical components are in place today: industrial sensors, edge servers, enclosures, power systems, networking, and telemetry. We now need a leader who can turn this working system into a standardized, commercial, repeatable hardware platform that can be deployed reliably, cost-effectively, and at scale across many customer sites.

This is not a traditional engineering role. It is a product commercialization role for physical infrastructure. It requires a strong understanding of the engineering principles behind our existing technology stack, along with the mindset to optimize and harden that platform for the future.

You will own the transformation of our hardware stack from “engineered systems that work” into a defined, documented, costed, vendor-managed, field-deployable product platform.

Why This Role Matters

This position is foundational to our ability to scale. The right person will turn a collection of components into a true commercial hardware platform the company can deploy anywhere with confidence.

What you Own

You will own the integrated commercial hardware platform from the case to the cloud, including:

• Standard system architecture
• Core bill of materials
• Product configurations and tiers
• Deployment and support standards
• Connectivity, remote access, and edge-to-cloud reliability
• Hardware cost and cost reduction
• Field-driven platform improvements
• Readiness for customer deployment

This role is responsible for making new site deployments repeatable, scalable, and supportable, rather than custom-engineered each time.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn Nirova’s technical solution in depth, including hardware, connectivity, telemetry, and field application
• Work closely with the CTO to move the current solution from prototype toward a standardized commercial platform
• Define and maintain the core hardware architecture, standard configurations, and bill of materials
• Clarify product tiers, deployment requirements, and readiness for customer use
• Improve cost, complexity, reliability, serviceability, and overall repeatability of the platform over time
• Translate field, customer, and internal experience into actionable platform improvements
• Bring greater consistency to networking, connectivity, and data flow requirements across deployments
• Keep hardware, software, and operational realities aligned as the platform develops

Qualifications

We are open to candidates from different backgrounds. The most important qualification is the ability to build, standardize, and scale real-world industrial hardware deployments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field strongly preferred
• 10+ years of experience building or managing hardware systems in industrial or outdoor environments
• Proven ability to build, standardize, or scale hardware systems in industrial, field, or outdoor environments
• Strong practical understanding of networking, remote connectivity, and deployed system reliability, including Wi-Fi, routers, switches, cabling, and IP networking
• Experience working with hardware vendors, integrators, or suppliers to provision and improve deployed systems
• Experience leading installations, solving field issues, or improving deployment reliability in live customer environments
• Ability to read schematics, wiring diagrams, and mechanical layouts
• Ability to work across engineering, operations, and suppliers to turn technical systems into repeatable deployments
• Willingness to travel to field sites as needed

Highly Valued Experience

Strong signals you’ve done this before:

• Productizing hardware platforms for multi-site deployment
• Creating BOMs, standards, and installation playbooks
• Value engineering to reduce system cost over time
• Building or enabling field service and deployment teams
• Startup or fast-growth company experience

What Success Looks Like

3 Months

• Clear view of the current deployed hardware and connectivity stack, including major failure points, cost drivers, and areas of variation
• Defined priorities to standardize the platform for deployment, support, and cost reduction
• Initial roadmap for hardware, network, and deployment standardization aligned with company growth plans
• Alignment established with the CTO and leadership on what is standard, what is still evolving, and what is not yet ready for scaled customer deployment

6 Months

• Standard platform architecture, core bill of materials, and approved deployment configurations defined
• Connectivity, remote access, and edge-to-cloud standards established for customer deployments
• Deployment, support, and provisioning standards documented and in active use
• Clear vendor and sourcing strategy in place to improve cost, lead time, and supply reliability
• Process established to translate field issues and deployment learnings into platform improvements

12 Months

• New customer deployments follow a defined, repeatable platform standard rather than one-off design decisions
• Deployment readiness criteria are in place and used before equipment is released to the field
• Hardware and connectivity issues are materially reduced as a source of delay, support burden, and customer risk
• Per-site hardware and deployment costs show measurable improvement against baseline
• Leadership has better predictability on deployment effort, equipment needs, and field support requirements
• The hardware platform is viewed internally as a productized system, not a collection of custom parts and workarounds

Compensation

This role is based in Boise, Idaho. Relocation assistance is available.

Compensation is commensurate with experience. Equity participation is available for candidates who want to help build and scale a high-impact environmental technology company.