Senior Hardware Engineer

Runlaminar; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with employer matching

Equity

Transportation benefit

Job summary

Runlaminar in Somerville, MA is seeking a senior hardware engineer to lead hardware development across sensor systems and field prototypes. You will design PCBs, create robust housings, and drive rapid evaluation with cross-disciplinary teams to advance our industrial sensing platforms.

You will collaborate with software and data analysis groups, implement test strategies, and push the limits of electro-mechanical integration for reliable factory-floor solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in electronics design, mechanical design, and data analysis.
• Electronics: PCB SMD/THT soldering, rework, troubleshooting, oscilloscope use, EMI design
• Mechanical design: CNC machined housings and watertight sealing

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype PCBs from sensors using KiCAD and simulate features with PSPICE.
• Design mechanical housings using SolidWorks for industrial deployments.
• Develop and implement test strategies with the Data Analysis team.
• Lead internal teams on new system design and ensure fast evaluation.
• Integrate sensors into testing platforms and field prototypes.
• Contribute to hardware engineering with design, assembly, and debugging support.

Skills

Electronics design

Mechanical design

Data analysis

Embedded systems

PCB design

Test & measurement

Team leadership

Tools

KiCAD

SolidWorks

PSPICE

Zephyr RTOS

Job description

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

We’re seeking a senior-level Hardware Engineer whose work will focus on new sensor system Research and Development. You will work closely with other engineers across both the Hardware and Embedded Systems teams to rapidly evaluate new technologies, test performance of sensing systems, and integrate them into field prototypes. This role will directly perform circuit and PCB design and evaluation, sensor experimental design and data analysis. You will work closely with colleagues to fabricate R&D systems and implement them for field trials. We value a self-sufficient, hands‑on engineer who isn’t afraid to ask questions and learns new skills quickly. Your work will directly impact our hardware product design, improve prototype iteration speed, and help Laminar to save more resources every day.

• Design and protype PCBs from commercially available and custom sensors using KiCAD, SolidWorks, and simulation software such as PSPICE
• Design mechanical housings using Solidworks tailored to difficult industrial deployment environments
• Develop and implement test strategies alongside the Laminar Data Analysis team. Collect and present this data in informal and formal reviews to allow for rapid analysis and sensor comparisons.
• Lead internal teams working on new system design, with a focus on quick evaluation and an extremely high level of system ownership.
• Integrate sensors to established testing platform using Zephyr RTOS
• Bring new ideas and creatively pursue new approaches to product sensing to solve critical problems for our clients.
• Contribute to the overall hardware team by providing design, assembly, and debug assistance on multiple projects.

Required

• 5+ years (senior level) experience in electronics design, mechanical design, and data analysis
• Significant Electrical OR Mechanical Experience along the following tracks
• Electronics experience: PCB SMD and THT soldering, rework, troubleshooting, oscilloscope use, digital signal analysis, switch mode power supply design, EMI troubleshooting
• PCB design experience with advanced microcontrollers, low noise analog sensor systems, industrial comms protocols and high density design
• Mechanical Experience: Generalist design principles for CNC machined housings, watertight sealing and customer UX in industrial products
• Significant product development experience, with a focus on new product bringup and R&D. Expect to talk about previous design projects in your interviews with the team
• Embedded system coding experience, preferably in Zephyr RTOS or similar
• Generalist mindset: comfortable working with all parts of electromechanical assemblies, data logging, as well as system-level topics
• Clear, efficient, and respectful communicator, good at balancing multiple projects and shifting priorities

Preferred

• Significant Electrical AND Mechanical Experience
• Full stack product development experience. Have taken multiple products from concept through to volume production and sunsetting and comfortable working throughout that lifecycle.
• Experience working with PCB contract manufacturers, machine shops both domestic and international, and a strong level of experience with DFM concepts
• Significant prior experience navigating the balance between “move fast and break things, but not the important things”
• Mechanical design experience in difficult environments: Sensor housings in ATEX zones, automotive or similar
• Experience with Zephyr RTOS
• RF experience, especially around antenna design and tuning or RF spectroscopy

• Direct impact on product and culture.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Equity
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.
• Transportation benefit for your commute
• A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events
• Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
• A customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go‑to‑market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low‑ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar HR/Recruiter (15-20 minutes)
2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.
4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in‑person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager.

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted.

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