Halo is a technology company building the future of haircare for all textures. We create category-defining products built for the complexities others overlook.
We're building HaloBraid, the world's first braid-assist device. It helps stylists finish braids five times faster, flawlessly and gently. This is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics, applied to a $270B salon services industry, and integrating computer vision, compliant fiber manipulation, and novel mechanisms.
Billions of hours are spent braiding hair each year; HaloBraid gives that time back. We're moving from R&D into deployment with salons, and we're backed by leading investors. We’re searching for a Hardware Technical Program Manager who wants to help bring this future to life. This role reports to the CEO.
Responsibilities
Lead cross-functional hardware programs from concept through launch, driving the team to alignment on requirements across engineering, design, and operations.
Build and maintain detailed schedules, highlighting dependencies and key week-to-week deliverables while driving the program to launch.
Translate technical requirements into clear, actionable plans.
Organize and oversee prototyping builds with engineering, manage communication with external prototyping partners to ensure we meet build goals & learnings.
Identify and mitigate technical risks through disciplined program management and proactive communication.
Identify and implement process improvements that accelerate development.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in hardware program / product / project management
Ability to translate engineering concepts into clear plans that keep the technical team focused and on track. You know how to remove blockers and mitigate risks before they escalate.
A proven track record managing and coordinating complex, cross-functional projects successfully
Used Gantt Charts, PRDs, and FMEAs to manage hardware production cycles
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to build relationships and influence others
An ability to bridge internal and external teams in different geographies and time zones.
Previously balanced multiple priorities in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
An ability to get things done, and pay attention to detail without dropping the ball
Experience bringing up and managing overseas contract manufacturers
Led multiple hardware development projects taking high quality products through production
Experience in consumer electronics, IoT, hair styling tools, robotics, or 3D printing
Technical expertise in areas like CAD, design for manufacturing (DFM), testing, or embedded systems
Working Style
Low ego, adaptable, and collaborative spirit
Excited to learn through fast-paced iteration and user feedback
Passionate, driven by innovation
Excellent communication and organization, an ability to concisely convey and discuss complex ideas
Benefits of Working with Us:
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
100% medical premium coverage
Meaningful equity
12 company holidays and unlimited PTO
Company subsidized parking or commute for onsite employees
Onsite Work
This is an onsite position at our office/lab in Cambridge, MA. You must have authorization to work in the US. There will be travel required ~20% of the time.
Applications for this role will close October 23, 2026
Don’t Meet Every Requirement?
If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align with every single part of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
About Us
HaloBraid is a technology company using breakthrough engineering to help people perform routines faster. We’re building the world’s first robotic hair-braiding that works with professional stylists to reduce braiding appointments from hours to minutes and grow their business. Billion hours are spent braiding hair each year. HaloBraid exists to give that time back.
Our product has already gone viral, generating millions of views across social platforms, building a fast-growing community of stylists, braid wearers, beauty lovers, and early believers excited for what’s next. This role will help transform our early traction into a dedicated and nurtured community.
We’re looking for a social media-obsessed highly creative Social Media Manager (Freelance or Full Time) to help bring HaloBraid to life across social platforms and in the community. This is a hands-on role for someone who loves creating content, following trends, shooting and editing short-form video, writing captions, engaging with audiences, and building digital community from the ground up.
Own HaloBraid’s day-to-day organic social strategy, including content calendars, platform planning, posting cadence, and creative testing.
Concept, create, shoot, edit, caption, and publish social content across TikTok, Instagram, Reels, YouTube Shorts, and emerging platforms.
Identify trends, sounds, memes, conversations, and cultural moments that HaloBraid can participate in authentically.
Develop recurring content ideas and series that build awareness, trust, community, and excitement ahead of launch.
Capture behind-the-scenes content with the HaloBraid team, stylists, community members, product demos, events, and brand moments.
Own day-to-day community engagement, including comments, DMs, tagged posts, mentions, and social listening.
Track social performance, report on KPIs, and use data to adjust strategy, improve content, and drive growth.
Support community events, interviews, creator moments, and brand storytelling across the broader marketing and community team.
2–3 years of experience in social media, content creation, community, influencer marketing, brand marketing, or a related role.
Experience creating or growing your own or brand TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or other platform from scratch.
Loves social media, is chronically online and enjoys keeping up with trends.
Deep fluency in TikTok, Instagram, Reels, YouTube Shorts, and emerging social platforms.
Strong short-form video instincts. You understand hooks, pacing, captions, trends, sounds, memes, and what makes people share.
Hands-on content creation experience, including concepting, shooting, editing, writing copy, and posting.
Comfortable being on camera and helping others feel comfortable on camera too.
Passion for beauty, hair care, hair trends, textured hair, braiding, salons, and community.
Strong taste level and an understanding of what feels fresh, premium, funny, culturally relevant, and socially native.
Independent, organized, proactive, and excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
Work experience at a beauty, hair care, fashion, lifestyle, consumer, or creator-led brand.
Experience with CapCut, Canva, Figma, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, or similar tools.
Working Style
Low ego, adaptable, and collaborative spirit
Excited to learn in a fast-paced environment
Passionate and community drive
Benefits of Working with Us Full Time:
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
100% medical premium coverage
Meaningful equity
12 company holidays and unlimited PTO
Company subsidized parking or commute for onsite employees
Remote / Hybrid Work
HaloBraid is based in Cambridge, MA. We have a preference for candidates who are NYC-based candidates who can work remotely day-to-day and travel to Cambridge regularly for team meetings, content shoots, events, and key brand moments.
Don’t Meet Every Requirement?
If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align with every single part of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
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Billions of hours are spent braiding hair each year. HaloBraid gives that time back. We’re moving from R&D into deployment with salons, and backed by leading investors Seven Seven Six, AlleyCorp, and Bling Capital.
Responsibilities:
Architect the design of mechanical systems and sub-assemblies from 3D CAD to production-ready parts.
Collaborate with mechanical, industrial design, electrical, and manufacturing engineers, users, and cross-functional teams.
Manage engineers, set best practices and standards, and strengthen our engineering culture
Push for elegant and effective solutions, challenge status quo, and drive design forward.
This is a hands-on engineering role that reports directly to the CEO.
Requirements
Experience with CAD and mechanical design of complex robotics or consumer electronics, and direct ownership of systems or subsystems
Experience with all stages of the concept to production cycle (rapid prototyping, DFM, contract manufacturing)
Experience bringing novel technology to market
Desired Skills & Experience (optional but the more, the better)
Experience with mechanisms, mechatronics, and moving components.
Complementary engineering experience:
DFM/DFA principles and mass manufacturing methods
Design optimization integrating CFD simulation results
Electronics prototyping
Experience collaborating with suppliers at the prototype and contract manufacturing stage.
Experience managing CAD systems and general assemblies
Experience working with industrial design to incorporate user needs, ergonomics, and aesthetics
Working Style
User centric, you want to build stuff people use and love
Low ego, adaptable, and collaborative spirit
Excited to learn through fast-paced iteration and user feedback
Passionate, driven by innovation
Excellent communication, an ability to concisely convey and discuss complex ideas
Benefits of Working with Us:
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
100% medical premium coverage
Meaningful equity
12 company holidays and unlimited PTO
Company subsidized parking or commute for onsite employees
Onsite Work
This is an onsite position at our office/lab in Cambridge, MA. You must have authorization to work in the US.
Don’t Meet Every Requirement?
If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align with every single part of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
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Billions of hours are spent braiding hair each year; HaloBraid gives that time back. We're moving from R&D into deployment with salons, and we're backed by leading investors.
Understand the full HaloBraid machine and its architecture: identify design, tolerance, assembly, serviceability, and dependency issues, and drive them to resolution.
Personally deliver IC engineering: own a subassembly from 3D CAD through pilot and toward production-ready parts.
Review design work across the team to reduce complexity and raise design standards.
Build strong test/experiment/decision frameworks
Apply DFM/DFA judgment and prepare for pilot builds, supplier engagement, and contract-manufacturer handoff.
Mentor engineers, set practical best practices and standards, and strengthen our engineering culture without becoming process-heavy.
Collaborate with electrical, industrial design, manufacturing, and suppliers.
10+ years, or equivalent depth, in electromechanical product development
Strong mechanical architecture and product-design judgment: you can see the whole system and its tradeoffs.
A track record of delivering designs that made it through pilot or production.
An ability to review CAD and identify design, assembly, and serviceability issues.
A strong experiment / test / decision-making framework
Fluency with control drawings, tolerances, assemblies, and manufacturability.
Taken a product or a major subsystem from prototype toward production.
A desire to mentor other engineers without adding bureaucracy
BOM ownership
Supplier searches with technical and cost recommendations: CM / supplier interface experience.
Product roadmap input
Production-transfer experience.
People-management experience.
Robotics or mechatronics experience.
Production embedded / electrical interface awareness.
User-centric. You want to build things people actually use and love.
Low ego, adaptable, collaborative.
A fast, honest iterator. You learn through testing and user feedback, and you follow through on what you suggest.
Driven by the mission. A hard, unsolved robotics problem that gives millions of people their time back is your idea of a good challenge.
A clear communicator
100% medical premium coverage, comprehensive dental and vision benefits.
Meaningful equity.
12 company holidays and unlimited PTO.
Free parking onsite.
This is an onsite position at our office/lab in Cambridge, MA. You must have authorization to work in the US.
If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align with every single line, we encourage you to apply anyway.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
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You want to build things people actually use and love.\n\n - Low ego, adaptable, collaborative.\n\n - A fast, honest iterator. You learn through testing and user feedback, and you follow through on what you suggest.\n\n - Driven by the mission. A hard, unsolved robotics problem that gives millions of people their time back is your idea of a good challenge.\n\n - A clear communicator\n\n\nBENEFITS OF WORKING WITH US\n\n - 100% medical premium coverage, comprehensive dental and vision benefits.\n\n - Meaningful equity.\n\n - 12 company holidays and unlimited PTO.\n\n - Free parking onsite.\n\n\nONSITE WORK\n\nThis is an onsite position at our office/lab in Cambridge, MA. You must have authorization to work in the US.\n\n\nDON'T MEET EVERY REQUIREMENT?\n\nIf you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align with every single line, we encourage you to apply anyway.\n\n\n\n\nEQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. 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8 billion hours are spent braiding hair each year. HaloBraid gives that time back. The system collaborates with professional stylists to reduce braiding appointments from 6 hours to minutes and grow their business. We’re moving from R&D into deployment with salons, well-funded by leading investors. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of the hair styling industry.
We are looking for a Spring 2027 Mechanical Engineering Co-op to play a pivotal role in developing our innovative hair braiding robotic system.
Contribute to the development of complex technology, product sub-assemblies, and test rigs
Take an active, hands-on role to ensure that engineering problems are resolved thoroughly
Utilize various rapid prototyping technologies to build, test, and iterate
Use hand calculations, computer simulation, and/or lab-based testing to validate designs through the development process
Conduct user testing and project the voice of the customer back into the design
Conduct various forms of testing, problem solving, and design iteration
At least one semester remaining in your undergraduate or graduate degree
Experience with CAD (we use Onshape, experience with Solidworks or equivalent is acceptable)
Experience with various rapid prototyping methods (3D printing, CNC, etc)
Demonstrated design intelligence, mechanical intuition, creative problem solving, and strong attention to detail
A willingness to fail and learn!
Gone through (and documented!) the design process for a project, through school or on your own time
Strong documentation skills and the ability to convey complex ideas in a team setting
Strong experimental rigor and testing process
Experience with complex CAD models with clear top down design
Experience with consumer electronics, robotics, or hair styling tools
Interest in hair braiding/styling
Interest in robotics and mechanisms
Complementary engineering experience:
Mechanisms, mechatronics, and moving components.
Experience with design optimization using FEA/CFD simulation
Electronics prototyping and soldering
Working Style
User centric, you want to build stuff people use and love
Low ego, adaptable, and collaborative spirit
Willing to learn through fast-paced iteration and feedback
Passionate, driven by innovation
Benefits of Working with Us:
Company subsidized parking or commute for onsite employees
Onsite work
This is an onsite full time position at our office/lab in Cambridge, MA. You must have authorization to work in the US.
Don’t Meet Every Requirement?
If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align with every single part of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.
","descriptionPlain":"Halo is a hair technology company using breakthrough engineering to elevate everyday routines. We’re building the world’s first robotic hair-braiding system—integrating computer vision, robotics, compliant fiber manipulation, and novel mechatronic machines. This is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics, applied to a $300B industry.\n\n \n\n8 billion hours are spent braiding hair each year. HaloBraid gives that time back. The system collaborates with professional stylists to reduce braiding appointments from 6 hours to minutes and grow their business. We’re moving from R&D into deployment with salons, well-funded by leading investors. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of the hair styling industry.\n\nWe are looking for a Spring 2027 Mechanical Engineering Co-op to play a pivotal role in developing our innovative hair braiding robotic system.\n\n \n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Contribute to the development of complex technology, product sub-assemblies, and test rigs\n\n - Take an active, hands-on role to ensure that engineering problems are resolved thoroughly\n\n - Utilize various rapid prototyping technologies to build, test, and iterate\n\n - Use hand calculations, computer simulation, and/or lab-based testing to validate designs through the development process\n\n - Conduct user testing and project the voice of the customer back into the design\n\n - Conduct various forms of testing, problem solving, and design iteration\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - At least one semester remaining in your undergraduate or graduate degree\n\n - Experience with CAD (we use Onshape, experience with Solidworks or equivalent is acceptable)\n\n - Experience with various rapid prototyping methods (3D printing, CNC, etc)\n\n - Demonstrated design intelligence, mechanical intuition, creative problem solving, and strong attention to detail\n\n - A willingness to fail and learn!\n \n \n\n\nDESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE (OPTIONAL BUT THE MORE, THE BETTER)\n\n - Gone through (and documented!) the design process for a project, through school or on your own time\n\n - Strong documentation skills and the ability to convey complex ideas in a team setting\n\n - Strong experimental rigor and testing process\n\n - Experience with complex CAD models with clear top down design\n\n - Experience with consumer electronics, robotics, or hair styling tools\n\n - Interest in hair braiding/styling\n\n - Interest in robotics and mechanisms\n\n - Complementary engineering experience:\n \n - Mechanisms, mechatronics, and moving components.\n \n - Experience with design optimization using FEA/CFD simulation\n \n - Electronics prototyping and soldering\n \n \n\nWorking Style\n\n - User centric, you want to build stuff people use and love\n\n - Low ego, adaptable, and collaborative spirit\n\n - Willing to learn through fast-paced iteration and feedback\n\n - Passionate, driven by innovation\n \n \n\nBenefits of Working with Us:\n\n - Company subsidized parking or commute for onsite employees\n\n \n\nOnsite work\n\nThis is an onsite full time position at our office/lab in Cambridge, MA. You must have authorization to work in the US.\n\n \n\nDon’t Meet Every Requirement?\n\nIf you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align with every single part of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.\n\n \n\nEqual Opportunity Employer:\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}}],"apiVersion":"1"}