Director of Engineering, Hardware

Full Time
8 months ago

Toast Overview:

We are a rapidly growing company that’s revolutionizing the way the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an unrivaled commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects that will help shape the future of the company. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.

  Responsibilities:
  • Drive delivery of business outcomes across multiple teams, including planning and execution
  • Enable and mentor electrical and mechanical engineers on your team and grow them professionally
  • Manage relationships with manufacturing partners and ensure quality and on-time delivery of Toast products
  • Establish strong working relationships with peer infrastructure and product teams
  • Influence architecture decisions in your team and more broadly across Toast to optimize product development efficiency
  • Grow the organization through hiring and creating professional growth for the members of your team
  • With Product Management partners, establish product requirements for next generation products
  • Help develop and evolve the hardware development process as Toast continues to grow

 

Requirements and Qualifications:
  • 5+ of managing engineering teams, preferably ones focused on Mechanical and Electrical product development
  • Proven experience in embedded systems development using standard mechanical and electrical engineering principles related to Android mobile devices
  • Strong understanding of hardware product development processes, from design, prototyping, production and post production quality support
  • Experience with building strategic partnerships and working day to day with manufacturing suppliers
  • A bias towards action, with the ability to balance between getting things done and making things perfect
  • Experience in a rapidly growing business and identifying opportunities as the business evolves over time.  
  • A good working knowledge of Android Software.
  • Passion for making your peers more productive and efficient
  • Experience working with remote teams residing in multiple time zones.

 

 

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.