Founding Hardware Engineer – Sensor Systems

You design the board, solder it and test it on the bench yourself? Then come build sensors that run in the real world.

An early-stage hardware startup in San Francisco builds sensor systems for maritime and other demanding environments. It already has paid pilots at several US sites and government work under way. As founding hardware engineer, you own the full hardware life cycle from the first day: from the first schematic to a working sensor in the field.

• PCB and schematic design for new sensor hardware
• Firmware on embedded platforms such as ESP
  32 and Raspberry Pi
• Power regulation, connectors and enclosures that survive harsh conditions
• Hands-on bench testing, and improving the sensors already deployed

• You design PCBs and schematics yourself, and solder and bench-test by hand
• Because of the defense and government work, you must be a US citizen or permanent resident (green card)
• You live in the Bay Area and can start right away
• 0–1 years of experience: recent graduates and students are welcome

• A board you designed and brought all the way to a working device (share photos or a repo)
• Sensors such as accelerometers, IMUs or thermal cameras
• Experience on a student build team (robots, race cars, rockets, satellites) or solid hardware side projects
• Harsh-environment, robotics, automotive or industrial IoT experience

• $150k–$170k base + 1–1.5% equity
• Ownership of the entire hardware stack at a very early stage
• A role that grows as the company grows

• Full-time, on-site at their hardware lab in San Francisco, 9-9-6, with an immediate start
• The salary band is fixed and this is an engineering role, not a co-founder or leadership position
• Process: first meeting (preferably at the lab) → hands-on trial with their current sensors → offer

• Your CV (PDF) and your Linked In URL, plus a portfolio or repository of your hardware work
• Where you live now, and when you can start
• Your status: US citizen or permanent resident
• Your base salary expectation and any other interview processes you're in