Teams at Distance Technologies

Build and lead the company-wide People function as Distance Technologies scales globally. Own the employee lifecycle, culture, organizational design, performance management, compensation and benefits, learning and development, DEI, talent acquisition, and employer branding. Partner with founders and leadership on people strategy while remaining hands-on in building processes, tools, and teams. The role is based primarily onsite in Helsinki with regular international travel.

Design and implement low-latency FPGA logic for realtime image processing in head-mounted and vehicle systems. Translate specs into SystemVerilog/VHDL, build testbenches, achieve timing closure, optimize latency across clock domains, and perform hardware bring-up and debugging with board and embedded software teams.

Own architecture and implementation of the XR compositor and OpenXR runtime, define graphics and IPC frameworks, ensure multi-process reliability, extend automated tests, drive product definition, and mentor engineers on cross-stack runtime and platform integration.