Founding Hardware Engineer, AI-Driven PCB Design

Physical AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Physical AI in San Francisco is building models and tooling to accelerate hardware design. The founding engineering team will own core architecture and productionize physics-informed models on real boards.

You will shape the tech stack, integrate with engineers' tools, and design practices that allow a small team to operate like a larger one. Visa sponsorship available and meaningful founding equity offered.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering hardware-focused software stacks.
• Ability to design end-to-end architectures for boards and systems.
• Strong bias for shipping with reliable CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own product architecture, services, and storage end-to-end.
• Shape tooling, workflows, and vendor selection for the stack.
• Integrate engineering tools and turn research models into production.
• Define internal engineering practices and set hiring bar.

Skills

Hardware design

System architecture

DevOps culture

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

VCS

Job description

Physical AI in San Francisco is building models and tooling to accelerate hardware design. The founding engineering team will own core architecture and productionize physics-informed models on real boards.

You will shape the tech stack, integrate with engineers' tools, and design practices that allow a small team to operate like a larger one. Visa sponsorship available and meaningful founding equity offered.