About the Position

Hardware Tech Lead (CNTXT AI)

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

CNTXT AI builds egocentric and teleoperation data infrastructure for humanoid robotics and embodied AI. This role owns our hardware end to end. You will spec our egocentric capture suite, select and manage vendors, and design hardware hands-on. You will also build CNTXT's own hardware IP. This is a hands-on tech lead role: you set the technical direction for hardware and guide the engineers and contractors working on it.

Responsibilities

Ego Capture Suite: Specification and Architecture

Write system requirements and the full spec for our wearable egocentric capture platform: head-mounted cameras, IMUs, EMG/biosignal sensors, hand and head-pose tracking, audio, storage, power, and thermals.
Set camera requirements: FOV, resolution, frame rate, shutter type, lens distortion, and low-light performance.
Design multi-sensor time synchronization (hardware triggering, shared clocks, timestamping) so streams align at capture, not in post-processing.
Trade off data quality against wearability, battery life, unit cost, and manufacturability for a large, distributed contributor base.
Define the interface to our data pipeline so device output maps cleanly into capture formats such as MCAP.

Vendor Evaluation and Management

Hands-on Hardware Design

Hardware IP

Spot patentable ideas in sensing, synchronization, calibration, and wearable form factor.

Technical Leadership

Requirements

Experience and Leadership

Nice to Have

Why This Role is Interesting

This is an opportunity to build hardware from the ground up for embodied AI and humanoid robotics. You will have significant ownership over the hardware architecture, make key technical decisions, work directly with manufacturing partners, and help create proprietary hardware technology rather than simply maintaining an existing product.

We Offer

Competitive salary
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology
Professional growth and development

About the Company

CNTXT AI is at the forefront of developing egocentric and teleoperation data infrastructure for humanoid robotics and embodied AI. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AI and robotics.

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Hardware Tech Lead (CNTXT AI)

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