Flux
Head of Hardware Design
San Francisco Office · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 182 days ago
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About the role
- We're looking for an experienced electrical engineering leader who will own the hardware design practices and guiding principles of our platform.
- You'll steer the evolution of our ECAD tool's core capabilities as well as the correctness of our AI Hardware Engineer's system knowledge and design approach.
- You'll actively partner with product leadership to shape and prioritize AI capability development, evaluation frameworks, and in developing scaled approaches to guide our community to successful PCB projects.
Responsibilities
- Drive ECAD feature design & specs - Craft product requirements for core ECAD behaviors across placement/routing, constraints management, stackup, impedance control, DRC/DFM, manufacturing outputs, and prototyping workflows.
- Co-author specs, validate by running dogfooding initiatives, beta programs, and scaled user feedback.
- Be the design partner to AI/ML - Teach the world's first AI hardware engineer how to design successful products. Define best practices, guardrails, and evaluation harnesses
- review AI‑generated designs
- create the AI expertise that will help more people build successful hardware on their first production run, without releasing the magic smoke.
- Build out the Hardware Design function - Start as a hands‑on manager with two existing reports.
- Over time, refine the team's core responsibilities, and build a larger team that produces reference designs, demos, product specs, training, and field feedback loops.
- Develop real hardware - Lead quick‑turn-around prototypes (from schematic to bring‑up) that exercise product/AI capabilities. Instrument designs for SI/PI and power/thermal validation
- Amplify user insight - Adopt ownership and improve upon current user experience signals, feedback loops, and channeling user input into our iterative product design.
- Partner closely with our software engineering department in ensuring AI evaluations are reflective of real-world user requirements.
Requirements
- This democratizes a process that has historically required years of specialized expertise.
- ability to turn messy user needs into simple workflows
Nice to have
- On the ground factory and test, mass production, and quality/yield optimization experience.
- Hands‑on across ECAD platforms
- passion for great engineering tools and workflows.
- Title/level will match experience and impact.
- meaningful time in multiple ECADs (e.g., Altium, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD, Mentor Xpedition, KiCad, Zuken) and experience with simulation tools (SPICE, SI/PI such as ADS/HyperLynx/SIwave
- 3D EM such as HFSS), plus lab instrumentation (oscilloscope, VNA, logic analyzer, power analyzer).
Compensation
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity, plus comprehensive benefits.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity, plus comprehensive benefits.
- Product - Be the "voice of the customer" within the organization, addressing vision, strategy, research & discovery, prioritization and cross-functional leadership.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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