Senior Product Manager - Hardware & Edge AI (d/f/m)
About this role
New ChallengeAbout Us
Project Q GmbH ("Q") is a defence technology company with offices in Berlin and Munich, and a trusted partner of the German Armed Forces. Our customers field sensors, drones and C2 systems from many vendors that were never built to work together. We build Hydris, an orchestration layer that integrates the systems they already field, and the ones they'll add next, into one picture operators can act on across defence, public safety, and critical infrastructure. Hydris runs at the edge, keeps working when the link drops, and its core is open source under Apache 2.0.
As Senior Product Manager for Mission Devices, you'll own the hardware that puts Hydris in the field.
You'll work end-to-end, from discovery with operators through hardware build cycles to fielded units, and you'll decide what gets built rather than work through someone else's backlog. The bar is concrete: devices that run for months off-grid in contested RF environments.
Responsibilities
- Discovery and requirements• Spend time with end users in their operating environment to understand their workflows in depth, not just their stated requirements.
- Validate assumptions about value, usability, feasibility and viability through prototypes, bench tests and field trials before committing to hardware fabrication.
- Analyze contractual specifications with Program Managers, separating firm constraints from areas where there's room for the best technical solution.
- Roadmap and delivery• Maintain an outcome-focused roadmap aligned to hardware build cycles (EVT/DVT/PVT), firmware releases and OTA update pipelines.
- Define requirements and field metrics for each device, including detection performance, energy efficiency, mission endurance and SWaP, and make the trade-offs between them.
- Prioritize investmen