Where hard tech finds its leaders.

Built for the whole hardtech ecosystem

Whether you lead, hire, or place — this is where hard-tech leadership comes together.

Senior & leadership jobs in hard tech and deep tech

HardTech Careers is a specialist job board for senior and leadership roles in hard tech and deep tech, worldwide. Where generic boards bury a Chief Commercial Officer or a VP of Engineering under thousands of unrelated listings, this is a focused place for the people who build physically real technology to find their next role — and for the companies building it to find their leaders.

What we mean by hard tech and deep tech

Deep tech is the broad term for companies whose advantage comes from a genuine scientific or engineering breakthrough — spanning quantum, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, robotics, space and semiconductors, whether the output is hardware or software. Hard tech (also written “hardtech”) is the hardware-intensive end of deep tech: physically real, engineering-hard products where the difficulty is the physics and the manufacturing. HardTech Careers focuses on that hard-tech end, and on the senior operators, engineers and executives who lead it.

Eight hard tech domains

Every role on the board sits in one of eight domains: quantum computing and sensing; robotics and automation; aerospace and space; semiconductors and photonics; defense and dual-use systems; advanced materials; energy & climate hardware; and bio & medtech devices. Whether you are hiring a Chief Revenue Officer for a space company, a Head of Manufacturing for a battery startup, or a Director of Business Development in defense, the role and the audience are in the same specialist place.

For candidates and leaders

Browsing and applying are free, and every listing links straight to the employer’s own careers page — the source of truth — so you apply where the company actually receives applications. Roles are re-verified daily, and filled or closed listings are removed, so what you see is genuinely live. Alongside open roles, the board surfaces funding-driven “likely to hire soon” signals and the GTM Talent Tracker, which maps where hard-tech companies are building their commercial teams.

For employers

Posting a hard tech job is a flat €149: reviewed and live within 24 hours, active for 30 days, and carrying JobPosting structured data so it is eligible for Google Jobs. It reaches senior-to-C-suite candidates across all eight domains, worldwide, rather than a general audience. Employers can also claim a verified company profile, and venture funds and accelerator programmes can run a co-branded, always-live careers board across an entire portfolio. HardTech Careers is operated by The Strategic Narrative Advisory and updated every day — if you lead, hire, or place in hard tech, this is where the frontier’s people come together.