Electrical Engineer (PCBA Products)

Neuron Industries (YC S26); Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Paid time off

Free daily meals

Job summary

Neuron Industries in Gardena, CA is building the AI era for industrial hardware. You will be the Founding Electrical Engineer for PCBA products, designing the boards our controllers run on—from SoC compute to industrial I/O and power—and driving bring-up through production.

You will own boards end-to-end, architect embedded systems with firmware and software, and run AI-enabled workflows that accelerate hardware engineering on the manufacturing floor.

Qualifications

• EE fundamentals deep enough to work from first principles.
• Experience taking new electronics from concept through production and bring-up.
• Technical lead with architecture decisions and accountability.
• Proficient with Altium Designer and hands-on in the lab for debugging.
• Bias to ship with fast iterations and solid test data.
• AI-forward: use AI daily in real engineering work and trust it for non-critical tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test highly reliable industrial electronics and compute systems (SoC compute, industrial I/O, power).
• Own boards end to end: architecture, schematic capture, layout, prototyping, bring-up, validation, test development, and handoff to manufacturing.
• Architect embedded systems with firmware and software; run firmware bring-up on your boards.
• Design for EMC, thermal, vibration, brownouts, surges, and plant-floor harshness.
• Support DFM reviews, fixtures, test points, and yield discussions after first articles.
• Work AI-first to speed up hardware engineering and contribute AI workflows.

Job description

Design and ship the best industrial hardware in the world.

But we cannot manufacture our abundant future while the reactors, fabs, and production lines that make everything we use still run on architecture locked in the 90s.

Neuron Industries is the industrial technology company for the AI era. We are rebuilding the entire industrial automation tech stack, from hardware to runtime to the AI fabric, without sacrificing a minute of uptime. Controls projects that took weeks now take hours.

Come help us build the golden age of American manufacturing.

The role

Founding Electrical Engineer, PCBA Products. You design the boards our controllers are built on: SoC compute, industrial I/O, power. Your designs go from first schematic through bring-up, validation, and production, and they set the reliability bar for everything we ship.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and test highly reliable industrial electronics and compute systems, fast: SoC compute, industrial I/O, power.
• Own your boards end to end: architecture, schematic capture, layout, prototyping, bring-up, validation, test development, and the handoff to manufacturing.
• Architect embedded systems side by side with firmware and software, and run firmware bring-up on your own boards without waiting on anyone.
• Design for where these boards live: EMC, thermal, vibration, brownouts, surges, miswiring. Plant floors are not kind.
• Feed manufacturing: DFM reviews, test points and fixtures, and the yield conversations after first articles.
• Work AI-first: AI every day for schematic review, component research, calcs, and docs. Help build the AI workflows that speed up hardware engineering here.

What you'll bring

• EE fundamentals deep enough to work from first principles: power integrity, signal integrity, mixed-signal design, and the failure modes of each. You can defend every part choice on your last board.
• You've taken new electronics from concept through production (new hardware, not incremental respins of legacy designs) and lived through bring-up, validation, and the ECOs after.
• You've been the technical lead and system owner. The architecture calls, the execution quality, and the accountability were yours.
• Proficient with Altium Designer, and hands‑on in the lab: scope, electronic load, rework station. You debug your own boards.
• Bias to ship: fast iterations, honest test data, no mystery green wires in production.
• AI-forward: you use AI daily in real engineering work and know where to trust it. The board still has to pass bring‑up, not the chat.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with industrial automation technologies and robotics.
• Manufacturing and supply chain experience: CM management, component sourcing, cost‑downs.
• High‑reliability or high‑channel‑count design: industrial, automotive, aerospace, or test and measurement.

Compensation

$140,000–$210,000 base, plus meaningful founding‑level equity. The range is wide on purpose: where you land depends on how much new hardware you have taken to production and owned as system lead.

• 100% employer‑paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (premium PPO and HMO options)
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
• Free daily catered lunch and dinner

Neuron Industries is an equal opportunity employer: we hire on ability, hunger, and what you can build. And if this role excites you but your experience doesn't line up perfectly with every bullet above, apply anyway. The bullets describe the work, not the prerequisite for success.

Location: Gardena, CA - on‑site, five days a week.