New comment by breakfastny in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

BREAKFAST Studio (kinetic art) | Senior Technical Program Manager · Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer | Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | https://theartistbreakfast.com

We're the studio behind the artist BREAKFAST. We design and build his robotic sculptures for the Venice Biennale, Rockefeller Center, the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, Tiffany & Co. in New York, Dubai and Seoul, and private collections around the world. The largest is the world's largest kinetic sculpture: 53 feet wide, nearly 3,000 motorized tiles driven by live wind and tide data, aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. No screens, no projectors. Each piece is hundreds to thousands of motors on an RS-485 bus under a Linux host, built to run for a decade with nobody watching it, and every board, line of firmware and bracket is designed and built by 17 people in our Brooklyn studio. See them move: https://theartistbreakfast.com/works

Senior Technical Program Manager: the artist's person on the ground with a six-person senior design and engineering team. You own every schedule in Asana, pressure-test estimates, run the weekly rhythm, flag slips the day you know, and deal with clients through install. Hardware+software TPM or producer background (robotics, consumer hardware, instruments), 8–12 years, fluent across at least two of mech/EE/firmware/software/ID. $150–200k base + profit share.

Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer: own the electronics end to end. KiCad schematic→layout→revision, stepper/BLDC drive tuning, RS-485/Ethernet bus architecture, embedded C, production test fixtures, field-failure analysis. 10+ years shipping electronics you personally owned; real motor control; power/EMI/thermal; prototype→CM. $140–200k base + profit share.

No art background needed. We care whether you're sharp, can own a thing alone, and write plainly.

Apply at https://theartistbreakfast.com/jobs and mention HN. The "what makes you right for this" box is the part we read.