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title: 'Mechatronics Engineer at CircuitHub'
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# Mechatronics Engineer at CircuitHub

- **Company:** CircuitHub
- **Location:** South Deerfield, MA
- **Compensation:** $80k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/circuithub/2f1c5eaa-0be2-4bfc-bfd3-51c00b36e904

## Job description

## About CircuitHub

CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid, a factory-scale robotics platform that makes small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production: a 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries. We've raised $45M from top-tier investors including Plural, Y Combinator and Google Ventures, and we're already profitable. Our customers include a major EV maker, a top AI lab and many of the worlds largest companies. The Grid isn't a prototype. It's live, scaling fast and delivering real revenue, and we're building the team that will scale it further.

## The role

Mechatronics Engineers at CircuitHub own projects end to end. You'll start with a problem, often on our factory floor, and take it all the way to a working machine:

- Understand the problem and turn it into a clear specification
- Generate ideas and choose the right mechanism
- Design it in CAD and prove it out with the engineering calculations
- Prototype and build it, machining parts in our in-house CNC shop
- Bring it to life with software on our in-house robotics operating system

We work AI-first. AI tools help you scope the problem, drive your CAD, run the calculations and write the machine software. The software side needs basic software engineering skills, not a software background: you'll write it with AI agents, supported by a dedicated software engineering team who build the operating system. You must have built things before, ideally robots, whether as a hobbyist, student, employee or founder. We don't hire narrow specialists. We want engineers who can:

- Diagnose system-wide failures from first principles
- Prototype mechanical and software fixes on the fly
- Work autonomously and communicate clearly with a team spread across sites
- Take responsibility for how their machines perform in live production

Things you'll do This is a design role with hands-on prototyping. For example:

- Conceive new mechanisms to handle electronics parts and other robotic handling tasks, using AI to scope and specify the problem
- Design gantries and end effectors in Fusion 360
- Use AI agents to run the engineering calculations, and know when to distrust them
- Machine prototype parts in our in-house CNC shop
- Analyse end-effector behaviour from video and revise its geometry and control approach to improve throughput and reliability
- Program machine behaviour on our in-house robotics operating system, with AI agents doing the heavy lifting
- Specify sensors that catch errors while a machine is running, or monitor a chemical process
- Prototype and deploy a new test robot for in-line PCB validation
- Commission your machines and hand them over to our build team to scale up
- Work across our US and UK sites to share what you've learned and shape the roadmap

Bonus skills

- Experience programming machines, whether PLCs, robot controllers, embedded systems or Python
- Programming and running CNC machinery
- Design of chemical handling machinery
- Optics

Pay and level $80K–$200K depending on experience, plus equity. A candidate at the lower end of the range might have:

- Built some systems before, with some exposure to robotics or automation
- Seen parts and subsystems through to manufacture as part of a design team
- Knowledge of designing for machining
- A keen interest in moving their career towards practical robotics

A candidate at the upper end might also have:

- Led the build and deployment of large-scale automated systems
- Written the software that controls their own machines
- Designed for a wide range of manufacturing methods, from machining to sheet metal to injection moulding
- Mentored more junior engineers

The range isn't a hard limit: if you're an expert in all of the above, we still want to talk to you. Not quite so experienced but passionate and keen to learn? Talk to us too. Location Full-time on-site at our factory in South Deerfield, Western Massachusetts, 90 minutes from Boston, where the Grid runs in production today.

## About CircuitHub

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CircuitHub provides on-demand, automated circuit board assembly and manufacturing, enabling hardware companies to prototype and produce small batches at speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; Series A)
- **Headquarters**: South Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA (with additional locations in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Rehno Lindeque (CEO) and Andrew Seddon (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Electronics Manufacturing / Hardware Manufacturing
- Target customers: B2B, serving hardware companies in self-driving cars, satellites, 3D printing, robotics, aerospace (e.g., Tesla, NASA, Zipline), and other sectors requiring rapid prototyping and low-volume production.
- Mission or purpose: "To fix rapid electronics manufacturing" and make it possible for hardware companies to design and iterate as fast as software companies.

## Products & Services
- **The Grid (Automated Factory Platform)**: A proprietary, factory-scale robotics platform that delivers a 10x improvement in speed and cost for small-batch electronics production. This is the core technology that enables rapid, on-demand assembly.
- **Full Turnkey PCB Assembly**: Offers assembly from 1 to 10,000 units. Users upload EDA files (Altium, EAGLE, KiCAD) and receive a real-time quote within five minutes. Standard lead time for full turnkey orders is 3 days.
- **Shared Parts Inventory**: A shared inventory of 35,000+ common parts, reducing the need for customers to source and stock components. They also offer to stock custom parts for repeat customers.
- **Virtual Build & Board Viewer**: A browser-based tool that previews the board and component placements before ordering, helping to catch errors early in the process.
- **Real-time KPIs**: CircuitHub is the first in the industry to publish real-time manufacturing performance metrics, providing transparency on delivery times and quality.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Total funding of $30.3M (as of latest reports). Key rounds include an $18M raise from Y Combinator and Google Ventures, and a more recent $28M raise (likely a Series A or extension) announced in 2025.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at $5.2M (based on available data). More significantly, the company reports having shipped 87.4M+ boards and placed 1.57M+ parts, with over 20,000 engineers trusting the platform.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2012 batch), Google Ventures (GV).
- **Growth Signals**: The company describes itself as the "fastest growing electronics manufacturer in the USA." They have announced a "10X capacity going into 2027," indicating aggressive scaling. Notable customers include Tesla, NASA, and Zipline.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed & Automation**: The core moat is their proprietary software and robotics platform ("The Grid") that automates the traditionally manual and slow process of PCB assembly, enabling 3-day standard lead times.
- **Transparent Pricing & Metrics**: They offer real-time, instant quoting and publish live KPIs, which is highly unusual in the contract manufacturing industry and builds trust with engineering customers.
- **Shared Inventory Model**: By stocking 35,000+ common parts, they solve a major pain point for hardware startups and engineers: the cost and delay of sourcing components for small runs.
- **Tech-First Culture**: The company is built around a modern tech stack (software engineering, robotics, computer vision), which is a significant differentiator from traditional manufacturing firms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Capacity**: The company is aggressively scaling its manufacturing capacity (10x into 2027) to meet growing demand from robotics, aerospace, and automotive sectors.
- **Deepening Automation**: Continues to invest in its software and robotics platform to further flatten the price curve for low-volume production and reduce lead times.
- **Expanding Customer Base**: While serving large names like Tesla and NASA, the platform is designed for engineers of all sizes, from solo inventors to large R&D teams, suggesting a focus on broad market capture.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: The company is on a mission to "fix rapid electronics manufacturing," offering employees the chance to solve real-world problems in hardware and manufacturing. They describe themselves as a "dynamic bunch of exceptionally hard-working people."
- **Engineering Focus**: The company is built around a modern tech stack, with open roles for Haskell Engineers, Full-Stack Robotics Engineers, Computer Vision Engineers, and Operations Research Engineers. This is an ideal environment for engineers who want to apply software skills to physical manufacturing.
- **Remote-First Policy**: CircuitHub is a remote-first company with a global team. Roles are open in the US (Massachusetts and West Coast) and the UK (London). They support a mix of remote work and co-working spaces for local teams.
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, stock options, flexible paid time-off (PTO), and growth opportunities.
- **Team**: A small, rapidly growing global team of approximately 58 people (as per Y Combinator profile), offering a high-impact environment.

## Sources
1. [circuithub.com](https://circuithub.com/)
2. [circuithub.com/about-us](https://circuithub.com/about-us/)
3. [circuithub.com/company/careers](https://circuithub.com/company/careers)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/circuithub](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circuithub)
5. [linkedin.com/company/circuithub](https://www.linkedin.com/company/circuithub)

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