Clera
Founding Electrical Engineer
About this role
A founding electrical engineer role at a Y Combinator-backed wearable startup focused on emotion-sensing devices. You'll design and manufacture the complete electrical and PCB architecture while driving the product from prototype through mass production, with direct influence on the hardware engineering organization.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end electrical and PCB design for the wearable device
- Iterate on hardware revisions based on testing and user feedback
- Lead consumer hardware development from prototype to mass production
- Drive the electrical architecture and component selection decisions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product development
- Establish manufacturing and production processes for scaling
What they're looking for
- PCB and schematic design (Eagle, Altium, or equivalent)
- Embedded systems and microcontroller programming
- Sensor integration and signal processing
- Consumer electronics design and manufacturing
- Wearable device hardware experience
- Production and supply chain management
- Rapid prototyping and iteration
- Power management and RF design
Benefits
- Meaningful founding equity stake
- Salary of $150,000 USD annually
- H-1B visa transfer support
- On-site work in New York or San Francisco
- High ownership and leadership trajectory
- Early-stage startup environment with direct impact
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a consumer electronics product you shipped from design through production—what were the biggest challenges?
- How do you approach iterating on PCB designs when you receive feedback from prototype testing?