Founding Electrical Engineer
$150kClera
About the Role This is a founding-level electrical engineering position at a Y Combinator-backed startup building a next-generation AI-powered wearable in the consumer emotional intelligence space. The company is early-stage (fewer than 10 people), has prototypes already on users' wrists, and is moving fast toward production. The founder brings deep consumer hardware experience from one of the world's most recognized device makers. As the Founding Electrical Engineer , you will own the full electronics stack for the wearable device - from schematic capture and PCB layout through to manufacturing. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role with a path to leading the hardware engineering org as the company scales.
What You'll Do
Compensation & Benefits
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end electrical and PCB/board design for the wearable device
- Iterate rapidly through hardware revisions, balancing speed and quality
- Drive the consumer hardware from prototype stage through to mass production
- Collaborate closely with the founder and cross-functional team on product requirements, sensor selection, and form-factor constraints
- Define and build out electrical engineering processes and standards as the team grows
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in board/PCB design
- Demonstrated track record of shipping physical consumer electronics products (end-to-end, prototype to production)
- Proficiency with embedded hardware, sensors, and consumer electronics constraints (size, power, cost)
- Comfortable working at a fast pace in a small, high-accountability team
- Experience with wearable or body-worn devices
- Background in biometric or audio sensor integration
- Experience scaling hardware from DFM through to contract manufacturing
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $150,000 USD annually
- Equity: Meaningful founding equity (up to 1-2%)
- Opportunity to grow into a hardware engineering leadership role
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