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title: 'Head of Hardware Design at Flux'
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# Head of Hardware Design at Flux

- **Company:** Flux
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $245k–$270k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flux/61343a22-02bf-43a4-b093-c48745624f42

## Job description

## Why Flux

Flux is taking the hard out of hardware. To do this, we’re building the world's first AI hardware engineer. Founded in 2019, our platform enables anyone to go from idea to manufacturable board using nothing more than a natural language prompt. This democratizes a process that has historically required years of specialized expertise.

We're going after a $15B+ electronic design automation market, backed by 8VC, Bain Capital Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Outsiders Fund, Figma board member John Lilly, and GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner. In February 2026, we closed a total of $37M in funding to accelerate that mission.

What happens when we unlock the ability for anyone to make hardware? We fundamentally reshape the world. That's our mission, and we're just getting started.

## 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. In this role, you'll grow our existing Hardware Design function and team.

This is a high‑impact, multidisciplinary role for someone who has experience building complex electronics that shipped at scale (e.g., smartphones, wearables, high‑performance compute, networking, robotics) and loves translating real‑world engineering constraints into powerful tools and AI behaviors.

## What you’ll do

- 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; curate datasets; 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; close the loop with data.
- Amplify user insight – Adopt ownership and improve upon current user experience signals, feedback loops, and channeling user input into our iterative product design. Strategically invest in deeper customer relationships. Champion the user’s voice in cross‑functional forums. Partner closely with our software engineering department in ensuring AI evaluations are reflective of real-world user requirements.
- Product – Be the "voice of the customer" within the organization, addressing vision, strategy, research & discovery, prioritization and cross-functional leadership.

## What you’ll bring

- Deep EE breadth + depth with real products in the field. Comfortable spanning:
- RF & wireless: from sub‑GHz to mmWave; matching, filtering, antenna/feed layout.
- EMI/EMC & ESD: design‑for‑compliance, grounding/return paths, shielding, filtering.
- Power electronics: DC‑DC (buck/boost), PMICs, PoE, motor/actuator control, power sequencing, efficiency/thermal trade‑offs.
- Analog & mixed‑signal: sensor interfaces, data converters, low‑noise design.
- High‑speed digital: DDRx, PCIe/SerDes, USB‑C/USB4, MIPI, Ethernet (1G–25G+); timing, skew, and equalization considerations.
- SI/PI: signal/power integrity analysis, decoupling strategies, return‑path control.
- PCB/stackup expertise: material selection and stackup definition, controlled impedance, differential pair tuning & length‑matching, via strategies (blind/buried, microvia, backdrill), HDI (high‑density interconnect), panelization, and build rules with fabs/EMS.
- DFM/DFT & manufacturing: hands‑on bring‑up and debug, test coverage, fixture definition; tight collaboration with CMs/ODMs.
- Tooling fluency: 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).
- Product sense & communication: ability to turn messy user needs into simple workflows; excellent written specs, diagrams, and presentations; confident with senior leadership and deep‑dive technical reviews.
- Leadership at multiple altitudes: thrive as both a hands‑on engineer and a manager; co-develop core ECAD product strategy. Hire, mentor, and scale processes while staying close to the work.

## Preferred qualifications

- Experience in a larger technical org (e.g., hardware product management or lead EE for critical subsystems at a world‑class company) with a track record of shipping at scale.
- On the ground factory and test, mass production, and quality/yield optimization experience. Actively participating in builds and carrying key responsibilities to realize designs at scale.
- Prior design‑partner or customer‑facing role (product management, applications, FAEs, field engineering, or cross‑functional liaison) that turned feedback into product wins.
- Hands‑on across ECAD platforms; passion for great engineering tools and workflows.
- Practical exposure to AI/ML (prompting/evaluation, data curation/labeling, or integrating ML‑assisted design tools).

## Benefits & package

Competitive salary and meaningful equity, plus comprehensive benefits. Title/level will match experience and impact.

How to apply Send a your resume, a quick cover letter, and any links to public designs or talks. Email: hiring@flux.ai Subject: Head of Hardware Design – Your Name

Flux is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

## About Flux

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flux is an AI-powered, browser-based platform for collaborative PCB design and electronic hardware development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Lance Cassidy, Matthias Wagner, Christian Blank

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Hardware Design Tools, AI-assisted Engineering
- **Target customers**: Hobbyists, researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and professional hardware engineers (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Take the hard out of hardware” – make atoms as malleable as bits, empowering anyone to design and manufacture physical products as easily as software.

## Products & Services
- **[Flux Platform](https://www.flux.ai/p)**: Browser-based PCB design tool featuring schematic capture, layout editing, auto-routing, multi-layer support, bill of materials generation, design rule checks, and real-time collaboration with version control.
- **[Flux Copilot](https://www.flux.ai/p)**: AI assistant integrated into the platform that helps brainstorm ideas, wire up schematics, reference datasheets, troubleshoot bugs, and automate tedious tasks.
- **[Component Library & Parts Marketplace](https://www.flux.ai/p)**: Shared, forkable library of components, reference designs, and templates with real-time pricing and availability from major suppliers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Series B, Feb 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding **$49M** over 3 rounds; latest Series B closed February 27, 2026 (amount undisclosed) with participation from Outsiders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC, and others [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/flux-ai/__DgsqcxsjLsm7cUHAQiGcPjtiZwIU_vAHmJznT8TYkS8).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Outsiders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC (12 institutional investors + 1 angel investor)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount reached **120** as of May 2026 (up from ~28 on LinkedIn earlier); ranked **5th among 260 active competitors** on Tracxn; operates in 11 countries; growing global user base and active open-source community.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Browser-native, zero-install** – eliminates toolchain friction common in legacy EDA tools (e.g., Cadence, Altium).
- **AI co-pilot (Copilot)** – accelerates design iteration and lowers the barrier for non-experts.
- **Real-time collaboration & version control** – fork projects, manage permissions, and review asynchronously like software teams do on GitHub.
- **Integrated supply chain data** – live pricing/availability from major parts distributors.
- **Full-stack hardware vision** – future scope includes mechanical design, firmware, manufacturing, and distribution, creating a single ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Democratizing hardware design** – making it as easy to design a PCB as it is to build a website.
- **Expanding the toolset** beyond electronics into mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing workflows.
- **Growing the community** of contributors and leveraging AI to reduce the expertise gap.
- **Remote-first global hiring** to attract top talent without geographic constraints.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote company** – work from anywhere; operates across 11 countries (US, Philippines, Canada, India, New Zealand, Kenya, etc.).
- **Culture rating**: 5.0/5.0 on LinkedIn (Work-Life 5.0, Compensation 4.5, Culture 5.0, Career 4.5) from employee reviews.
- **High-impact mission**: Building the “tool for making better tools” – you directly shape how physical products are invented.
- **Engineering-led environment** with modern stack (browser, AI) and a focus on solving hard problems in hardware.
- **Transparent manifesto** and strong sense of purpose: “We need the weirdos and the rebels and the nerds.”
- **Benefits**: Not detailed but culture emphasizes autonomy, creativity, and generous collaboration.

## Sources
1. [flux.ai – About Us](https://www.flux.ai/p/about)
2. [flux.ai – The Flux Manifesto](https://www.flux.ai/p/manifesto)
3. [tracxn.com – Flux AI Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/flux-ai/__DgsqcxsjLsm7cUHAQiGcPjtiZwIU_vAHmJznT8TYkS8)
4. [linkedin.com – Flux Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/buildwithflux)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Flux Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flux)

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