Hardware Engineer - Project Manager

Company – Smartbox Lockers

Job Title: Hardware Engineering Project Manager

Experience: 6 + years

Location: 1023, The Epicenter, Waman Tukaram Patil Marg, Chembur, Mumbai – 400 071

OUR HERITAGE AND JOURNEY:

A Legacy of Innovation, A Future of Solutions 

Founded with a vision to transform the package management industry, Smartbox has built a legacy of delivering innovative, reliable, and scalable locker solutions since 2015. Over the years, we have become a trusted partner for businesses across industries, offering secure, seamless, and data-driven logistics solutions. 

Our expertise, backed by the deployment of over 14,000 lockers and a 98% customer satisfaction rate, stands as a testament to our commitment to excellence in customer service. Smartbox Lockers continues to lead the way in shaping the future of smart, efficient package management systems worldwide. 

Over time, Smart box grew from a hardware manufacturer into an ISO 27001:2022 and PCI-DSS certified full platform business, pairing modular locker hardware with an enterprise-grade cloud-SaaS layer for access control, monitoring, analytics and system integration. Our partners include Morgan Stanley, HCL, GE Healthcare, Unisys, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, and DXC Technology.

Description

We are looking for a Hardware Engineering Project Manager to drive our mechanical, electrical, and embedded hardware programs from R&D through release. You'll keep cross-functional engineering teams, vendors, and factories aligned, manage schedules and priorities across concurrent initiatives, and use data to drive decisions and surface risk early.

Key Responsibilities

• Own planning, scheduling, and execution of multiple hardware programs across mechanical, electrical, and embedded engineering teams.
• Translate R&D and product roadmaps into clear schedules, milestones, and deliverables
• Coordinate release schedules across disciplines, proactively identifying and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Manage vendor and contract manufacturer/original design manufacturer coordination, including deliverables, timelines, and issue resolution.
• Support factory builds (engineering, design, and production validation stages), including build readiness, on-site coordination, and issue escalation.
•  Drive certification activities (regulatory, safety, compliance) to ensure on-time approvals for release.
• Partner closely with the software/firmware team to align hardware-software integration and release timing.
• Track task status, unblock engineers, escalate risks, and keep stakeholders informed on program health.
• Build and maintain program dashboards, using metrics to identify bottlenecks and drive process improvements.
• Report program status, risks, and key decisions to senior management.
• Manage prioritization across concurrent R&D and release efforts, balancing near-term and long-term work.
• Facilitate design reviews, planning sessions, and release readiness checkpoints.
• Manage scope, risk, and critical path across all active programs

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Any Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years managing hardware programs: scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical path
• Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, embedded), vendors and contract/design manufacturers, and factory builds.
•  Experience supporting certification/compliance processes for hardware products.
• Strong prioritization, resource planning, and stakeholder/senior management communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

•     Experience managing R&D initiatives alongside production releases

•     Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, or embedded/firmware engineering

•     Experience with tools like Jira, Smartsheet, or MS Project

•     PMP or equivalent certification