Job Opportunity for Maker Expert (Technical Mentor – Hardware & Networking) at NASSCOM Foundation in Noida

Program:

The NASSCOM Foundation Innovation Spaces aims at establishing virtual maker spaces in various partner universities across India for students to learn emerging technologies and work on their start-up ideas to build an MVP and take it to market by the end of the program. The best, most successful ideas get seed funding and a chance to get incubated. The program offers opportunities for students to experience the journey of idea to incubation with support and guidance from in-house mentors and industry SMEs. The program is in the fourth year of its existence and has created 20+ high-potential start-ups and impacted more than 10,000 students through its digital outreach.

Designation : Maker Expert (Technical Mentor – Hardware & Networking)

Location: Noida/Delhi-NCR/Gurugram/Bangalore

Reporting to : Head of Innovation Spaces

Experience : 4+ years’ as IoT/full-stack developer, maker, leader of maker communities

Skills /Knowledge

• Hands-on skills on maker platforms – Arduino, RPi, ESP. Hands-on experience in building electronic prototypes. Familiarity with IoT tech – WiFi, BLE, LoRa, GSM
• Hardware System Design, Firmware, PCB Design, RF Design, CAM, CAD, DFM
• Communication systems and protocols – SPI, I2C, USART etc
• Deep understanding of Networking, OSI model, TCP/IP stack
• Maker and innovator at heart with a passion to help other makers/innovators
• Generalist, quick learner, abreast with latest trends in technology
• Strong communication skills visible in writing, conversation and presentations
• Traits: Motivator and facilitator, curious, self-driven, empathetic, flexible, high integrity, cross-functional organizational ability
• Startup bent of mind, interest & knowledge of the startup & investor ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

• Supports and mentors student community across a network of virtual makerspaces, through video conferences, online forums
• Facilitates the creativity of student participants by demonstrating a genuine interest in their ideas, helps them define a minimum viable prototype and helps them build the MVP as a hands-on mentor
• Mentors participants in the program for presentation in the demo day
• Maintains constant contact with makerspace managers across India to understand operational/technical challenges and works with them to resolve
• Evaluate feasibility and quality of the teams at various stages in the program and evaluate and approve prototyping expenses for the teams
• Identify key industry experts for deep-dive workshops to be conducted & coordinate the workshops, webinars, hackathons, & other events along with Maker Managers
• Collate best practices in makerspace operations and innovations in various makerspaces and disseminate them across the community
• Inspires program participants by building maker projects in new and emerging areas and sharing the experience over the thingQbator
• Research to identify new and emerging technology areas for the makerspace
• Work as a team member to support and further the goals of the department

Other Remarks

• Salary as per experience and organizations norms
• Fixed-term contract, extendable depending on the performance of the individual and renewal of the program