Hardware and Sensor Engineering Advisor

This is a remote position.

Advise an early-stage women's health venture on sensor selection and hardware feasibility for a wearable device, helping the founding team make sound technical decisions before committing to a prototype build.

Organization: Confidential — early-stage women's health venture
Location: Remote, open to candidates across the SWANA region; Palestinian talent is welcome
Role Type: Flexible, part-time advisory contract, initially month-to-month
Reports to: The venture's founders

The opportunity

Our client, an early-stage women's health venture, has a defined concept and written description for a sensor-based wearable and is seeking experienced technical guidance before moving into hardware development. The founders — whose team includes a midwife — will continue to drive the research and day-to-day development themselves; they need an advisor who can stress-test the concept, flag feasibility gaps, and help translate a promising idea into a realistic, buildable hardware specification. This is a flexible, part-time advisory role: discussions, reviews and occasional focused technical contributions, with the possibility of a larger role as the venture and the relationship develop.

About the organization

Our client is an early-stage, founder-funded venture building products for women's health, working on several in parallel. The founding team includes a midwife, which grounds the venture's clinical thinking in direct frontline experience. For the sensor-based wearable at the center of this role, the founders have already worked out a concept and a written description of how it could work, and are now looking for the technical judgement to pressure-test that thinking before resources go into building hardware.

What you will do

• Review the wearable concept and proposed measurement methods, assess technical feasibility, and flag gaps or incorrect assumptions
  
• Recommend suitable sensors and components, and explain alternative approaches to achieving the required measurements
  
• Advise on design choices that could make the wearable smaller, simpler, or more effective
  
• Help translate the concept into clear technical specifications, including small pieces of documentation or other focused technical work when agreed
  
• Discuss progress, help guide development milestones, and help prioritize useful research or exploratory work
  
• Explain recommendations and trade-offs clearly to founders who do not have an engineering background
  
• Identify questions that need deeper specialist input and suggest where to seek that expertise
  

What you bring

• Practical experience in hardware engineering and sensors, with enough technical depth to provide useful, well-founded advice
  
• Understanding of sensor selection, component choices, and how sensing hardware fits into a complete device
  
• Broad awareness of what is involved in building a wearable, and the judgement to recognize when additional specialist input is needed
  
• Clear communication in English, with the ability to explain technical ideas, discuss assumptions, and collaborate constructively with non-technical founders
  
• Availability for the agreed advisory hours, with some overlap around European lunchtime or evening
  

Senior experience is helpful, but earlier-career engineers who can demonstrate strong, directly relevant experience and the ability to advise within their area of expertise are also welcome — there is no fixed requirement for a particular number of years.

Helpful, but not essential

• Experience developing wearables or compact sensor-based devices (transferable experience from other hardware products is also welcome)
  
• Relevant experience with optical sensing, including infrared or blue light, or with flow, temperature, pressure, or density measurement
  
• Experience in health technology, or an interest in women's health and the problems the venture is working to address
  

How the engagement works

Compensation is an hourly rate, with the initial allocation agreed based on relevant expertise and scope. This is initially a small, flexible advisory engagement that can fit alongside other work; the monthly allocation, or use of an agreed block of hours, will be arranged with the selected advisor. With mutual interest and as the venture develops, there may be scope for a larger commitment or future discussions about a technical co-founder or CTO role; any expansion would be agreed separately. You will need your own laptop, reliable connectivity, a secure work environment and two-factor authentication where required.

About Apricot

Apricot is a nonprofit sourcing firm connecting displaced and underserved professionals from Palestine and the wider MENA region with global employment opportunities. We combine a clear social-impact mission with fast, high-quality recruitment delivery for international clients.