Founding Full-Stack Hardware Engineer

About AquaShield

AI water leak detection for buildings

Tech

We’re building the full stack for real-time leak detection and localization in complex building water networks, from sensing and low-power IoT hardware to signal processing, time-series ML, and software integrations. The core technical challenges are extracting small leak signals from noisy water-consumption data, localizing anomalies with only a sparse set of sensors, and designing robust hardware that can collect precise measurements non-invasively from outside the pipe and operate reliably for years in the field.

The role

**Looking for a founding engineer to join our MIT Startup (YC P26) (high ownership and meaningful equity)**Product: Real-time detection & localization of water/gas leaks in complex distribution systems\Location: Zurich (+ partly in San Francisco)Requirements:* ⁠ Builder mindset: built and shipped a full-stack hardware + software product end to end, ideally from prototype to scale.\ •⁠ ⁠Startup mindset: high ownership, fast iteration, willing to go deep on hardware today and pivot to data problems tomorrow.\ •⁠ ⁠IoT and connectivity: LoRaWAN, experience in scaling fleet of deployed devices.\ •⁠ ⁠Embedded / edge + low power: sensor data processing, low-power IoT \ •⁠ ⁠ML for time-series: anomaly detection on sensor data, feature engineering, model training and deployment.What you’ll work on:* ⁠ ⁠Work closely with our CTO on tech strategy, sensing, architecture, and the path from prototype to scaled product\ •⁠ ⁠⁠Fast hardware prototyping and structured testing\ •⁠ ⁠⁠Real world deployments for customers\ •⁠ ⁠⁠Data Processing and ML