About the job
Why Join Flux?
At Flux, we are redefining hardware development by introducing the pioneering AI Hardware Engineer. Our mission is to democratize cutting-edge hardware creation and transform the global landscape of electronics design and manufacturing.
Your Role
We are seeking a seasoned leader in electrical engineering to spearhead our hardware design practices and principles. You will play a crucial role in enhancing our ECAD tool's capabilities and ensuring the integrity of our AI Hardware Engineer's knowledge and design strategies. Collaborating closely with product leadership, you will help shape and prioritize the advancement of AI capabilities, evaluation frameworks, and scalable strategies that empower our community to execute successful PCB projects. This position offers the opportunity to expand our Hardware Design function and team significantly.
This is a high-impact, multidisciplinary role ideal for someone with a proven track record of developing complex electronics for mass production, such as smartphones, wearables, high-performance computing devices, networking equipment, and robotics, who enjoys translating real-world engineering challenges into innovative tools and AI functionalities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead ECAD Feature Development – Define product requirements for essential ECAD functionalities including placement/routing, constraints management, stackup, impedance control, DRC/DFM, manufacturing outputs, and prototyping workflows. Collaborate on specifications, validate through internal testing, beta programs, and comprehensive user feedback.
- Collaborate with AI/ML Teams – Educate the world’s first AI hardware engineer on effective product design practices. Establish best practices, guidelines, and evaluation frameworks; curate datasets; assess AI-generated designs; and cultivate the AI expertise to enable successful hardware production from the first run, avoiding common pitfalls.
- Enhance the Hardware Design Team – Start as an active manager overseeing two team members, progressively refining the team's responsibilities and scaling to create reference designs, demos, product specifications, training materials, and feedback mechanisms.
- Prototype Real Hardware – Oversee rapid prototyping (from schematic to realization) to showcase product/AI capabilities. Instrument designs for signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal validation; utilize data to close the feedback loop.
- Enhance User Experience – Take ownership of and improve current user experience metrics, feedback loops, and user engagement processes to inform our iterative product development.
