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A board you finish this month can be in the field the next.\n\nWhy this role\n\nReal scale, fast. This isn’t a prototype-forever role. You’ll take a proven array design and get it into a small, cheap form factor that can be built at tens of thousands of units a month.\n\nFull ownership. The array design, components, and BOM are done. You own the PCB from schematic to working board, and first-pass yield and spin count are yours.\n\nBuild the automation. You’ll work with our simulation team to close the loop between EM and thermal results and layout, and help build our in-house AI tooling for PCB design. The long-term goal is a pipeline that generates and validates boards with very little human time.\n\nA small founding team. 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