Founding Hardware Engineer - Wearable AI Devices

CLERA; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. is seeking a Founding Hardware Engineer to own the device hardware from the next board revision through manufacturing for a compact wearable designed for private interaction with computers.

You will improve PCB layout, optimize power and RF, and move prototype hardware toward production while addressing manufacturability, testing, and supplier coordination. Candidates with 2–7 years of hardware experience and PCB shipping in a real product are preferred.

Qualifications

• 2–7 years hardware engineering experience with hands-on IC/contributor work.
• Experience designing PCBs that shipped in a real product.
• Prototype-to-production experience or strong early-career fundamentals for rapid AI-tool use.

Responsibilities

• Improve PCB layout and optimize power, RF performance, size, reliability and cost.
• Advance prototype hardware toward production including manufacturability, testing, suppliers and assembly.
• Identify and resolve issues during hardware bring-up, testing and manufacturing.
• Make hardware decisions and maintain quality across shipped units.

Skills

PCB design

Hardware engineering

Prototype-to-production

Layout optimization

RF engineering

Power management

Supplier coordination

Wearables/IoT

Job description

Clera Labs, Inc. is seeking a Founding Hardware Engineer to own the device hardware from the next board revision through manufacturing for a compact wearable designed for private interaction with computers.

You will improve PCB layout, optimize power and RF, and move prototype hardware toward production while addressing manufacturability, testing, and supplier coordination. Candidates with 2–7 years of hardware experience and PCB shipping in a real product are preferred.