Founding Hardware Engineer (Visa Sponsorship - San Francisco, United States)

Visa sponsorship available. An early-stage consumer AI hardware team is hiring a founding hardware engineer to take ownership of its device from the next board revision through to manufacturing. The product is a compact wearable built for private, personal interaction with computers. This is a hands-on role at the start of the company, where your hardware decisions will directly shape the first shipped units.

What you'll do

• Refine PCB layout and tune power delivery, RF performance, size, reliability, and cost.
• Drive prototype hardware toward production by addressing design for manufacture, test strategy, suppliers, and assembly.
• Lead hardware bring-up and resolve issues found in lab, real-world testing, and manufacturing.
• Make hardware design decisions and keep quality consistent across shipped units.

What you need

• Roughly 2 to 7 years of hardware engineering experience, including hands-on individual-contributor work.
• Personal experience designing PCBs that went into a real shipped product.
• Prototype-to-production experience, or strong early-career fundamentals and a demonstrated ability to work quickly with AI tools.
• Ability to own the full path across layout, power, RF, testing, suppliers, and assembly.
• Must be able to work on-site in San Francisco.
• Experience with compact wearables, IoT devices, or consumer electronics is a strong plus.

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