Principal Engineer

Location: Wellington, New Zealand

At SEEN Safety, our purpose is simple: prevent tragedy and ensure people get home safely.

We design and manufacture intelligent sensing systems that help prevent collisions between mobile machinery and pedestrians in industrial workplaces. Our machine-mounted sensors use LIDAR and machine vision to detect people in critical risk zones, with events uploaded to SEEN Insight, our cloud platform that provides valuable safety data to customers.

Headquartered in New Zealand with sales offices in Australia, the USA and the UK, SEEN is a growing global technology company.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across our hardware and embedded systems development, helping guide products from concept through to production and compliance certification.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, working closely with the Head of Engineering and Production. You will lead electronic design, mentor a small engineering team, and support manufacturing and product improvement as systems move into production.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Product Development

• Lead the electronic design and development of new products and product improvements

• Design analog and digital circuits

• Produce schematics and PCB layouts using Altium

• Conduct prototype assembly, hardware bring-up, validation and testing

• Prepare costed Bills of Materials (BOMs) before handover to manufacturing

• Research and document product compliance requirements

• Liaise with third-party compliance testing laboratories

• Support early field trials and product validation

Manufacturing & Production Support

• Assist with pilot production builds at our contract manufacturer in Thailand

• Support manufacturing through:

• Production documentation

• Component sourcing and substitutions

• Monitoring production data

• Quality assurance and fault finding

• Prototype new production processes in New Zealand

• Support continuous product improvement and engineering best practices

Collaboration

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small engineering team

• Work closely with cross-functional teams across the business

• Represent SEEN professionally with suppliers, partners and customers

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience leading electronics product development from concept through production

• Strong experience in high-speed analog and digital circuit design

• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout

• Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, testing and validation

• Experience preparing products for manufacturing and compliance certification

• Strong communication and technical documentation skills

• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship

• Legal right to work in New Zealand

Highly Desirable

• Embedded firmware development

• Experience with Espressif platforms

• Embedded Linux systems

• Experience with electro-optical or LIDAR / laser electronics

• Experience supporting contract manufacturing

• Exposure to AI edge applications, particularly machine vision or detection systems

Technologies You’ll Work With

• LIDAR and electro-optical sensing

• Machine vision systems

• Embedded systems and edge AI applications

• Video and image capture systems

• Cellular-connected devices communicating with cloud platforms

Travel

• This role is based in Wellington and may involve:

• Occasional travel within New Zealand for product trials

• Periodic travel to our contract manufacturer in Thailand

Why Join SEEN?

• Work on technology that directly improves workplace safety

• Develop products deployed in industrial environments around the world

• Work across sensing systems, embedded hardware and connected devices

• Join a growing New Zealand technology company with global reach

• Be part of a small, highly capable engineering team.

Apply

If you are an experienced engineer who wants to apply your expertise to technology that helps prevent workplace accidents, we would love to hear from you.