Hardware Engineer

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype electromechanical and fluidic subsystems for laboratory automation or drug-delivery hardware.
• Select and integrate components such as pumps, valves, manifolds, tubing, reactors, seals, sensors, heaters, motors, transducers, controllers, batteries, or wireless modules as the application requires.
• Build and debug prototypes, investigate failures systematically, and turn test results into practical design changes.
• Develop controls for timing, flow, pressure, temperature, mixing, sensing, fault detection, and recovery.
• Work with scientists to connect hardware performance to chemical or biological outputs such as purity, yield, reproducibility, dose delivery, safety, and sample quality.
• Write clear test procedures, record results, and define acceptance criteria for the systems you own.
• Contribute to the integration of instruments, analytical systems, sample tracking, and quality-control workflows.

Ideal Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building, testing, or maintaining physical systems such as laboratory instrumentation, automation systems, fluidic or microfluidic devices, electromechanical hardware, medical devices, wearables, or implantables.
• You may have a background in mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical, or bioengineering; robotics, automation, medical devices, wearables, implantables, or equivalent hands-on experience can also fit, including nontraditional paths.
• Practical comfort with some combination of electromechanical systems, fluidics, sensing, controls, laboratory instruments, or automation.
• A systematic approach to root-cause analysis when a device, instrument, or experiment does not behave as expected.
• The ability to own a defined subsystem, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and collaborate closely with scientists and other engineers.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn across disciplines; we do not expect experience in every area listed above.

Pay & Benefits

• In addition to the posted salary range, we offer generous equity options.
• Compensation will depend on the skills, experience, and scope of impact you bring. If your background, experience, or compensation needs fall outside this range, we are still open to a conversation based on the scope and impact you could bring.
• $500+ monthly wellness budget for training, supplements, coaching, recovery, or other tools that help you perform at your best.
• Healthcare: We offer a broad range of medical, dental, and vision coverage options, with Capable covering 100% of the base policy.
• You will also have access to HSA, FSA, and 401K plans.
• Healthy dinners with the team are provided daily.
• We support visa sponsorship where appropriate, including O-1, H-1B, J-1, TN, and other employment-based pathways. Our team is already international, with members from Canada, Pakistan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, China, India, and the United States.

Application Process

• Our process is fast, transparent, and personal. We care about getting to know the person behind the application.
• Initial application
• First phone screen
• Second phone screen
• In-person work trial in San Francisco: designed to give both sides a realistic sense of working together. Get to know the founding team!

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