Hardware Architect / Engineer (System Design, PCB, IoT)

About Pickpad
We’re a lean, early-stage startup building and leading a new product category - pickpad. It upgrades any restaurant or retail pickup area into a smart station running orders on autopilot, improving operations and guest experience.

We’re a small, experienced team in retail/restaurant tech. Now we’re looking for a part-time hardware engineer to help us move from validated prototypes to production-ready electronics.

What you’ll work on

• Help define the final hardware architecture (MCU, sensors, power, interfaces).
• Design and review schematics (ESP32-based system, sensors, displays, LEDs).
• Help define internal communication between modules (wired / wireless).
• Support BOM optimization (cost, availability, manufacturability)

• Review PCB layouts (you don’t have to route boards yourself if that’s not your focus)

   

What we’re looking for

• Strong background in hardware/system design (not just PCB routing)
• Experience with embedded systems / IoT
• Ability to think in systems and trade-offs, not just components

• Experience taking hardware from prototype to production is a big plus

   

We’re especially interested in engineers with a “schemotechnik / system architect” mindset, not only pure PCB designers.

Format

• Part-time (flexible hours)
• Remote-friendly
• Long-term collaboration possible
• Competitive hourly compensation (discussed individually)

Why join

• Ukrainian product, recognized by top global awards and media outlets.
• Already in pilots with customers.
• Ownership over critical technical decisions.
• No corporate bureaucracy.
• Opportunity to shape a new hardware product category from the ground up and grow with us.

If this sounds interesting - please send a short intro and a few examples of hardware you’ve worked on.