Hardware Technician Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka · Bangalore · 3-5 years experience · Contract · Remote · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Employment
- Contract
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka · Bangalore
About Instawork
- Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!
- Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.
- Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
- Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.
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About the role
- The Hardware Technician Lead will manage the maintenance, calibration, and local deployment of a fleet of 600 custom wearable camera rigs.
- This role involves diagnosing and resolving hardware issues for wearable devices used in high-stakes egocentric data collection.
- The position sits at the intersection of precision electronics, mechanical assembly, and field operations.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and resolve hardware issues affecting Instacore wearable devices.
- Test and repair head, chest, and wrist cameras, IMU sensors, cables, connectors, and related components.
- Troubleshoot power, connectivity, recording, camera-detection, and sensor issues.
- Flash devices, install firmware updates, configure devices, and conduct functional testing.
- Use digital multimeters and basic electronic testing tools to identify faults.
- Inspect motherboards, daughterboards, connectors, cable harnesses, power circuits, and other hardware components.
- Maintain accurate service and repair records and track device status in the service tracker.
- Support field teams with remote and on-site hardware troubleshooting.
- Coordinate with engineering and inventory management teams to resolve hardware issues.
- Follow electrostatic discharge (ESD) and safe-handling procedures.
Requirements
- Diploma, ITI certification, or degree in electronics, electrical engineering, hardware maintenance, or a related discipline.
- 3–5 years of experience in electronics repair, hardware service, field service, or technical support.
- Good understanding of basic electronics and hardware troubleshooting.
- Experience using a digital multimeter and basic electronic tools.
- Familiarity with PCBs, power circuits, cameras, sensors, cables, and connectors.
- Basic understanding of firmware installation, device flashing, and hardware configuration.
- Comfortable working with Android and iOS devices and applications.
- Good documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with technical and operations teams.
- Willingness to work rotational shifts and provide on-site support when required.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience repairing camera-based, wearable, IoT, or embedded devices.
- Familiarity with soldering and component-level repairs.
- Experience following ESD-safe working practices.
- Exposure to inventory or hardware service-tracking systems.
Workplace
- Position is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
- Requires willingness to provide on-site support when required.
Skills
- Electronics Repair
- Hardware Troubleshooting
- Digital Multimeter
- PCBs
- Firmware Installation
- Device Flashing
- Android
- iOS
- Soldering
- IoT
- Embedded Devices
