Technical Architect – NPI & AI-Enhanced Hardware Development
Technical Architect – NPI & AI-Enhanced Hardware Development
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CEO - Wizerr AI | AI Teammates for Electronics | Stanford GSB LEAD
Why the World Needs Wizerr — And Why We Need You
Hardware is in a modern gold-rush. New products - AI accelerators, EV drivetrains, wearables, robotics, humanoids, satellites and more reach market in weeks and months, not years. Yet engineers still lose days chasing alternates, comparing complex datasheets, checking for surprise EOLs, and wrestling cost-risk trade-offs.
Wizerr AI aims to end that friction. Our vertical AI stack becomes an engineer’s and procurement's teammate - cross-referencing millions of parts, comparing datasheets, and streaming real-time supply-health and pricing insight. We free hardware teams to invent instead of firefight spreadsheets & part data.
About Wizerr AI
Wizerr.ai is the first AI platform built specifically for the electronics value chain. Global contract manufacturers, distributors, and tier-1 OEMs use Wizerr to make confident part choices, de-risk BOMs, and keep ramps on schedule—all with transparent confidence scores that meet engineer-level scrutiny.
Your Mission
Roll up your sleeves and integrate Wizerr’s intelligence within customer's existing design and sourcing cycles. As a forward-deployed architect , you’ll work hands-on with OEM engineering, amazing robotics & consumer electronics teams, component engineering, and sourcing teams to weave AI-powered insights into every NPI phase—without their data ever leaving the building. You will turn hours of component hunting into minutes of confident decisions, making hardware engineers the heroes of speed and quality.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with OEM teams to help with AI-enhanced NPI workflows—alternate-part selection, risk scoring, lifecycle checks, cost modeling—inside schematic and BOM reviews.
- Understand customer needs and work with AI team to deeply integrated Wizerr platform or private-cloud integrations that keep customer IP and data inside their walls while unlocking Wizerr system of component intelligence.
- Lead deep technical hardware development workshops with enterprise hardware teams; translate requirements into phased implementation roadmaps.
- Partner closely with component-engineering and sourcing leaders to optimize DFM/DFX trade-offs without slowing innovation.
- Align contract manufacturers by delivering AI-ready AVL/BOM packages that keep production ramps on schedule.
- Publish playbooks, present at industry forums, and share customer success stories that advance modern hardware practice.
What You Bring
- 5+ years in system level design, component engineering, or product architecture, including multiple high-volume launches.
- Hands-on collaboration with contract manufacturers and global supply chains.
- Fluency with PLM/BOM systems, RoHS/REACH compliance, cost modeling, and lifecycle-risk mitigation.
- Genuine enthusiasm for AI/ML and a record of applying data or automation to engineering workflows.
- Executive-level communication—persuasive with VPs, precise with senior PCB designers.
- Comfort operating as a forward-deployed, customer-facing architect who can dive into code, scripts, or API configs when needed.
Bonus Points
- Leadership experience in Component/Hardware Engineering or Sourcing.
- Leveraged ERP, SRM, or supply-risk APIs.
- Publications or talks on AI in hardware, design-for-supply, or NPI excellence.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Shape how AI redefines every early-design decision in the next wave of hardware innovation.
- Influence flagship products at world-class OEMs and see your work ripple through global supply chains.
- Collaborate with founders, ex-big-tech AI scientists, and veteran hardware architects.
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, flexible work setup, and budget for conferences and training.
Ready to Build the Future Faster?
If you’re passionate about how AI can accelerate hardware innovation, check out Wizerr AI ( and
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- Email your profile to
Feel free to include a note about why advancing hardware with AI excites you—we’d love to hear your perspective.
Let’s make the toughest part of hardware the smartest—together!
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