We see the potential inside everything and everyone. Starting with you.

Orbem uses AI to industrialize MRI, delivering non-invasive insight into everything from fruits to eggs to the human body. We are transforming what is becoming the world’s largest biological dataset into actionable intelligence to reduce waste, increase quality, and accelerate the shift toward a more sustainable and healthier future.

Headquartered and founded in Munich, Germany, with an office now in Houston, Texas, our world-class team is scaling inside-out technology to transform how humanity sees and understands biological matter.

Help us see what’s possible. Join us.

Senior Product Architect - Hardware (f/m/d)

Start Date: As soon as possible

Yearly Salary: €70,000 - €75,000 (fixed range, annual gross)

Stock Options: €20,000- €40,000

Benefits: Up to €5,000 annually

Work Model: Full-Time, Hybrid (Munich, Germany)

Your Role

As a Senior Product Architect for Genus Focus, you will act as the technical visionary bridging the gap between product strategy and engineering execution. In this pivotal role, you will reflect on our existing hardware architecture and documentation to elevate our standards and ensure scalability.

Working hand-in-hand with the Technical Program Manager (TPM) and Product Manager (PM), you will define the next generation of our solutions. You will combine your background in systems engineering with your leadership experience to guide R&D efforts, ensuring our hardware design is robust, innovative, and ready for global impact.

In this role, you'll combine deep technical expertise with innovative thinking to define product requirements, drive conceptualization and prototyping, and oversee the technical development of cutting-edge solutions.

Your Day-to-Day

By leveraging your diligence and excellent problem-solving skills, you unlock the next stage of our products by:

• Architectural Leadership: Analyze the status quo of our current hardware systems and identify opportunities to enhance performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

• Next-Gen Definition: Collaborate closely with the TPM and PM to translate customer needs into concrete technical specifications and design concepts for upcoming product versions.

• Documentation & Standards: Champion the creation of comprehensive technical documentation and design standards, ensuring our engineering knowledge base is structured for growth.

• Prototyping & Validation: Drive the conceptualization phase, overseeing the development of prototypes to validate new architectural approaches before full-scale development.

• Cross-Functional Synergy: Foster alignment between hardware design, software, and supply chain teams to ensure seamless integration of new features.

Your Experience and Skills

• You hold a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Medical Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience in hardware design, systems engineering, and integration, preferably within automation or imaging technologies.

• You have proven experience leading R&D teams or technical projects, guiding engineers through complex development cycles.

• You are skilled in requirements engineering, design thinking, and structured documentation practices.

• You thrived in a fast-paced start-up environment, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability.

• Fluent English speaker, with German proficiency as a plus.

Fit to Our Values

• We Own Every Challenge: we enjoy complexity and thrive under uncertainty.

• We Strive for Better: we seize any opportunity for growth and challenge the status quo. We are constantly learning and improving.

• We Imagine New Frontiers: we think beyond “doable” and “reasonable”. We design a sustainable and healthy future together.

What Makes You Stand Out

• You enjoy owning responsibility and working independently.

• Experience in CAD tools (preferably AutoDesk Fusion and AutoCad).

• You are a team player and open communicator.

• You are a passionate engineer finding creative solutions for complex problems.

• You have knowledge of innovation management and have used methods like design thinking.

• You have experience in the food automation or poultry industry.

What We Offer

International Environment:

• Join a team with 40+ nationalities across 5 continents, all driven by a shared purpose: shedding light on the world’s toughest challenges.

Comprehensive Benefits:

• Stock Options: Share in Orbem’s success.

• Relocation Support: Seamless support for your move to Germany.

• Learning & Development: €1,750 annual budget for personal growth.

• Fitness Membership: Access to Urban Sports Club or Wellpass.

• Childcare Reimbursement: Support for Kita/Kindergarten fees.

• Deutschland Ticket: Full coverage of public transportation.

Work-Life Integration

• Flexible Hours & Home Office: Work when and where it suits you.

• WFH Perks: Get €185 to upgrade your home office + an external monitor on us!

• 30 Days Paid Leave: Plenty of time to recharge.

• Personal Leave: Flexibility for life’s important moments.

• Work From Anywhere: Experience new cultures and environments for up to 60 days per year.

Your Team

As an Senior Product Architect - Hardware, you become part of our diverse and international team. Learn more about the team members, their work, and challenges here: https://orbem.ai/company/  

At Orbem, we're committed to building a smart, diverse team, and we recognize that self-doubt can prevent talented individuals from applying. If you feel you don't meet every requirement, we'd love to hear from you anyway!