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title: 'Director, Hardware Engineering at Perry Weather'
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# Director, Hardware Engineering at Perry Weather

- **Company:** Perry Weather
- **Location:** Perry Weather Office
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perryweather/34010cac-e5d9-49d2-a6ef-39b0a9761a8b

## Job description

## About Perry Weather

Perry Weather is the weather safety standard for organizations that operate outdoors. We combine on-site weather hardware with a software platform that automates alerts, siren activations, and safety decisions for more than 3,000 organizations — from the PGA of America, the NFL, and MLB to Turner Construction, thousands of school districts, cities, and golf courses. We've grown 80%+ annually for five consecutive years, and are continuing to grow.

We're headquartered in Dallas at The Centrum, in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, where our teams work together every day to help organizations make faster and safer decisions when weather puts people, assets, and operations at risk.

## About the Role

Hardware is the backbone of what we sell. Our weather stations and outdoor warning systems are the part of Perry Weather a customer can walk up to and touch, and they run unattended on solar power through heat, storms, and winter. When a device goes quiet, the customer loses confidence in a safety system they built their policies around.

We're looking for a Director of Hardware Engineering to own the execution of that function end-to-end. Reporting directly to the CTO, you'll lead our hardware and firmware engineers, own the roadmap and the schedule commitments behind it, partner closely with our manufacturing team to turn designs into deployed units, and be accountable for how our devices perform in the field.

This is a hands-on leadership role on a small team. You'll be in design reviews, at the bench, and in the firmware, and you'll hire the people who scale it from here. If you're looking to manage managers and run a review cadence, this isn't that job. If you've wanted to own a device business outright and have the engineering depth to do it credibly, it is.

## Responsibilities

The team and the bar

- Lead, coach, and grow our hardware and firmware engineers. At this size every hire moves the average, so hiring well is a core part of the job.
- Set the engineering standards: schematic and layout review, code review, test coverage, documentation, and what has to be true before a design moves to the next phase.
- Build the career path so strong engineers can grow into senior and lead roles as the team expands.

Execution and delivery

- Own the hardware and firmware roadmap and the dates attached to it. Turn product direction into resourced plans with phase gates, and hold them.
- Own firmware release management across the deployed fleet: staged rollout, verification, rollback, and the update process that makes shipping to devices in the field routine.
- Be accountable for what ships and when. Surface slips early, with the tradeoff already thought through.

Field reliability

- Own field reliability as a tracked number: failure rates by cause, RMA volume and root cause, time between failures, and warranty cost.
- Close the loop from the field back into design. Telemetry, returned units, and support escalations should each change the next revision or the next firmware release.
- Own fleet diagnostics and observability so we find problems in the field before customers report them.

Firmware and device software

- Own the embedded platform: C++ applications on ARM Linux, connectivity over cellular, provisioning, over-the-air updates, and the security posture of devices deployed on customer property.
- Hold firmware to modern software practices. Automated tests, hardware-in-the-loop coverage, CI, and code review so device software gets the same rigor as anything else we ship.
- Expect your team to build with AI coding agents, and be deliberate about verification. Firmware mistakes reach customers on rooftops and jobsites, where a bad release is expensive to undo.

Partner across the company

- Work with our manufacturing team on build readiness, test procedures, and quality. You own the engineering side of that handoff: production documentation, engineering change orders, sign-off when a component has to be substituted, and driving corrective actions back into the design when something escapes the line.
- Work with Product and our hardware PM on what we build next and be the engineering voice on feasibility, cost, and risk.
- Work with our platform and software teams on the device-to-cloud contract so hardware and software behave as one system.
- Work with Support and CX on the install experience, RMA process, and field learnings, and bring failure patterns back into the roadmap.

## Requirements

- 10+ years in hardware or embedded engineering, including 3+ years leading engineers directly. You've led a team through a full product cycle.
- Physical products you've shipped at volume, through the full development and validation sequence and into production with a contract manufacturer. You know where these programs slip.
- Credibility in both domains. You don't need to be our strongest electrical engineer or firmware engineer, but you need to review both competently and hold the respect of the people doing the work.
- A device you made dependable. You inherited or shipped hardware with a field reliability problem, found the causes, and drove the fix through design, firmware, and manufacturing.
- Design-for-manufacturing judgment: DFM and DFT, yield and test strategy, and the design choices that drive unit cost.
- Embedded Linux and connected-device depth. Board bring-up, OTA and rollback, low-power and power-budget design, and cellular connectivity in places with poor coverage.
- Judgment about instrumentation. You've built or bought the diagnostics that let a small team support a large deployed fleet.
- Hiring track record. You can attract hardware and firmware engineers in a market where they're scarce.
- Actively building with AI today. You have a view on where it helps engineering work and where its output needs to be verified before it reaches a device.
- High agency and urgency. You bring proposals rather than waiting for direction, and you close loops without being asked.

A strong plus is ruggedized or outdoor equipment, solar and battery-powered systems; industrial sensing and protocols, audio or high-power output systems; fleet management of thousands of units; and experience in safety-critical or regulated products.

## Benefits

- You'll want to come into the office. Our Oak Lawn office isn't just a place to sit — it's where ideas move fast and culture stays strong. The whole team is here Monday through Friday, which means real collaboration, no chasing people down over Slack, and a genuinely fun place to spend your work days.
- Your wellbeing is covered. Competitive health insurance, 401(k) with employer matching, and a full suite of voluntary benefits, because you shouldn't have to think twice about the basics.
- Good people, good times. Monthly All-Hands, Office Olympics, happy hours, and more. We take the work seriously and the culture seriously too.
- You're getting in early, and that matters. We're growing fast, but the biggest opportunities are still ahead. The people joining now will help shape what Perry Weather becomes.

## About Perry Weather

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Perry Weather provides a weather safety platform that combines on‑site hardware and cloud‑based software to deliver real‑time monitoring and automated alerts for lightning, heat, wind, and other hazardous conditions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Colin Perry

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather technology, safety software, IoT hardware
- **Target customers**: B2B – K‑12 / collegiate athletics, golf courses, parks & recreation departments, construction firms, energy companies, and airports.
- **Mission or purpose**: Simplify weather safety, protect lives, enforce safety policies, and minimize operational disruption.

## Products & Services
- **Weather Monitoring & Alerting System**: On‑site weather stations that measure lightning, WBGT (heat stress), wind, precipitation, and air quality; data updates every five minutes in a dashboard and mobile app. Automated alerts (SMS, push, outdoor sirens) are triggered by custom safety policies, with automatic all‑clears and lightning countdown timers.
- **Policy‑Based Alerting**: Clients define rules for lightning, heat, wind, etc. Percy Weather enforces consistent notifications across the entire team, eliminating confusion.
- **Historical Data & Reporting**: Site‑specific logs of weather delays and alerts support compliance verification, claims management, and operational planning.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: USD $21.25 million (Series A of $6.25M in Oct 2022, Series B of $15M in Oct 2024, both led by Arthur Ventures)
- **Key Metric**: Trusted by over 5,000 organizations; more than 200 million alerts sent.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Arthur Ventures (lead investor); Official Weather Platform of The PGA of America; Korey Stringer Institute (Perry Weather Heat Lab).
- **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount of 88 (+24.7% year‑over‑year); actively expanding into construction, energy, and airport markets; 7 open positions listed on LinkedIn (as of mid‑2026). Named a Dallas Business Journal “Best Places to Work.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated hardware + software**: On‑site stations provide hyperlocal data (not a distant weather station), tied directly to a single source of truth for automated alerts and compliance reporting.
- **Policy automation**: Clients can codify state athletic guidelines or company safety rules and have them enforced automatically, reducing manual decision‑making.
- **Scale of adoption**: Thousands of organizations across diverse verticals, from small school districts to Fortune‑500 firms, provide network effects and trust.
- **Partnerships**: Official status with the PGA of America lends brand credibility in the golf and events space.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding into new verticals (construction, energy, airports) and deepening existing ones (athletics, golf, parks & rec).
- Build the next generation of weather safety tools, leveraging modern software and resilient IoT hardware.
- Increase automation and integrations (e.g., golf cart systems, member apps) to further reduce friction for customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful impact**: Employees protect thousands of lives daily from hazardous weather.
- **Culture**: Casual, flexible, collaborative environment with no big egos. Core values: Adaptable, Humbly Confident, Grinder, Clever Thinkers. Monthly all‑hands, office Olympics, movie outings, lunch‑and‑learns, happy hours.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, 401(k) with match, generous PTO, and voluntary benefits.
- **Work environment**: Office‑based in Dallas’s Oak Lawn neighborhood, with flexibility. Small but growing team (88 employees) offering high ownership and challenging technical problems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly growing company with accelerating revenue, providing career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [perryweather.com – About Us](https://perryweather.com/about-us/)
2. [perryweather.com – Homepage](https://perryweather.com/)
3. [perryweather.com – Jobs page](https://perryweather.com/jobs/)
4. [LinkedIn – Perry Weather company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/perry-weather)

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