Clera
Founding Electrical Engineer
About this role
Join a Y Combinator–backed wearable startup as a founding electrical engineer, leading the complete design and production of consumer wearable hardware from prototype through mass manufacturing. You'll drive electrical architecture and PCB design decisions for a fast-moving hardware team with significant ownership and impact.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end electrical and PCB board design for the wearable device
- Iterate rapidly through device revisions based on testing and user feedback
- Drive consumer hardware from working prototype to mass production
- Integrate sensors and manage hardware trade-offs for consumer-grade performance
- Collaborate with manufacturing partners to meet production requirements
What they're looking for
- PCB and board design (schematic capture, layout tools)
- Embedded hardware development and prototyping
- Sensor integration and signal conditioning
- Production engineering and design for manufacturability
- Consumer electronics and wearable device experience
- Hardware testing and validation
- Fast-paced, resource-constrained problem solving
Benefits
- Founding team equity (1–2%)
- Base salary of $150,000 USD annually
- H-1B transfer support available
- On-site in New York or San Francisco
- High ownership and impact on core product
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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 wearable or consumer electronics product you shipped end-to-end—what were the biggest electrical design challenges?
- How do you approach sensor integration for a wearable device, and what trade-offs do you typically balance?