Founding Full-Stack Hardware Engineer
Hybrid (Zurich)$100k - $160k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Founding engineer role for AquaShield, a MIT Startup (YC P26) focusing on real-time detection and localization of water leaks in complex distribution systems. Hybrid location in Zurich and partly in San Francisco. High ownership with meaningful equity.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with CTO on tech strategy, sensing, architecture, and path from prototype to scaled product
- Fast hardware prototyping and structured testing
- Real world deployments for customers
- Data Processing and ML
Qualifications
- Builder mindset: built and shipped a full-stack hardware + software product end to end, ideally from prototype to scale
- Startup mindset: high ownership, fast iteration, willing to go deep on hardware today and pivot to data problems tomorrow
- IoT and connectivity: LoRaWAN, experience in scaling fleet of deployed devices
- Embedded / edge + low power: sensor data processing, low-power IoT
- ML for time-series: anomaly detection on sensor data, feature engineering, model training and deployment
Skills
Required:Full-stack hardware & software integrationLoRaWAN / IoT connectivityEmbedded / edge computingTime-series ML / anomaly detection
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About AquaShield
AI water leak detection for buildings
AquaShield protects large real estate portfolios against water damage (losses of up to hundreds of millions per year).