Mathieu Meisser

Senior Manager - Technical Leader - SW/FW/System Principal Engineer

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

About

- The goal: make things work ! - The love: being a key contributor and architect to some new exciting products. - The field: developing the architecture of products where electronics, firmware and software meet. - How: work in a creative environment where the User experience challenges can be solved by a solid teamwork, brilliant ideas and lots of iterative prototyping/testing.

Experience

  • Logitech (18 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Product Manager , MX group
      Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Managing the User features and experience driving the SW for the recently released (oct 2024) MX creative console and its plugin ecosystem. Responsible for the requirements, stories, priorities and working with team to meet the deadline and user requirements.

    • Senior Manager, MX Exploratory Innovation Technical Leader
      Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Exploring new product concepts for "MX" advanced users. Using fast prototyping, iterative Design thinking approach and working on a modular architecture to allow faster development cycles. Ultimately reaching the goal of putting new novel products in the hands of users all over the world.

    • Senior Manager, head of SW team for AR&VR, Principal System & FW Engineer
      Apr 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      On the footsteps of the team's work over the previous 2 years, I've taken the role of managing the SW team (multisite, 6 people) active in the AR&VR domain at logitech. This includes choosing and setting up the tools for the team (Unity, MS VS, Slack, Gitlab, ...), define the best workflows (git), discuss code guidelines and procedures and making sure everybody is aligned and focused on priorities. Reporting to the team head the status, issues and choices as well as and find new ways to reduce time spent in meeting and augment productivity and fun while working. Also working on some projects as individual contributor (C++ SW and C firmware).

  • Expert Engineer: Bluetooth Audio Development at Ultimate Ears (Logitech)
    Jan 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Defined the product architecture based on CSR family of Multimedia chips, such as BC5MM and CSR8670. Especially focused on the MULTI-HOST feature that is used on the Logitech UE Boombox. Worked closely with CSR's Cambridge team to drive specifications and followup development of the Wireless Stereo feature (Logitech UE Boom) up to production level.

  • Senior Manufacturing Engineer (JnJ) at Johnson & Johnson (Medos Codman)
    Jun 2005 - Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Codman is part of Johnson & Johnson group. worked as Manufacturing Senior engineer: involved in the development of test equipment for electronics testing and manufacturing lines. Validation of processes, GMPs and Quality ensurance.

  • Founder, Engineer & Marketing Manager at FiveCo
    Sep 2002 - Mar 2005 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Founder of the startup, Managed the marketing aspects, such as creating and developing the corporate identity (logo, brochure, wesbsite, marketing materials, reports) and management of all corporate public relations, as well as part-time development engineer.

  • Research and Development assistant in robotics at EPFL
    Apr 2001 - Sep 2002 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Worked in the ASL lab (autonomous system lab, robotics) for the development of automonous robots used and presented during the EXPO.02 swiss national exhibition. This was as the date, the biggest deployment of autonomously navigating robots. Was in charge of the technical development, testing and maintenance of two modules of the robot: the speech synthesis system (TTS) as well as the capacitive touch buttons that allowed to interact with the robot.