Hardware Meetup Newsletter (Aug 2024)
Global updates for events, hiring, and community open mic features.
Hello Fellow Hardware Pros!
You are receiving this email because you’ve recently attended a Hardware Meetup event. With so much going on across 30+ cities and 25,000 members, we want to better connect cities with a monthly newsletter. If this isn’t for you, feel free to unsubscribe below.
In this newsletter you’ll find:
Sponsor Spotlight: informal
Recap of Last Month’s Events
Hardware Hiring Features
Community Open Mic
Upcoming Events
Enjoy!
1. Sponsor Spotlight: informal
informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. Whether you're looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job.
informal put together a guide for hardware engineers, founders, and those looking to build in hardware.
2. Recent Meetup Recaps
This month was full for the community! Below are some recaps in case you missed them.
SF’s Summer Happy Hour at Root VC brought 100+ people together with demos across foodtech, neurotech, and more.
NY’s Summer Happy Hour with Makelab hosting in both NYC and SF!
10th Zurich Hardware Meetup featured speakers from Inverto Earth and Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics sharing their soft shape-changing drones.
6th San Jose Hardware Meetup on biomedical devices hosted by Acorn PD.
6th Portland Hardware Meetup covering topics in advanced manufacturing with nLight, Autodesk, Sherpa Design supported by Kickstarter.
4th San Diego Hardware Meetup hosted at Performant Manufacturing discussing connectivity and the cloud with multiple speakers.
2nd Austin Hardware Meetup had speakers from Chefee Robotics and Morton Consulting at re:3D’s new facility!
1st Dallas Hardware Meetup 🎊 hosted at Lumafield with talks from Andrew, Head of Solutions and Nate, co-founder of Hardware Meetup.
Atlanta Hardware Meetup 🎊 hosted its first happy hour at a local brewery supported by Steadfast Design Co.
Seattle Hardware Meetup hosted a fieldtrip to Qualfab for sheet metal part design and fabrication.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF/NY) ASIC Design Verification Engineer @ Waymo.
(SF/Bay Area) Product Manager, Voyager (Software) @ Lumafield.
(SF/Bay Area) Firmware Engineer @ Athelas.
(SF/Bay Area) Electrical Engineer @ Raise Robotics.
(SF/Bay Area) Field Application Engineer @ Quadric.
(SF/Bay Area) Materials Scientist @ Calectra.
(SF/Boston) Sr. Machine Learning Engineer @ Lumafield.
(Santa Clara) Optical Packaging & Components Engineer @ Celestial AI.
(NY) Integrations Engineer @ Dirac.
(NY) Mechanical Design Engineer (EIT/PE) @ Jobot.
(NY/Remote) IoT Firmware Engineer @ Delos.
(Boston) Senior Advanced Support Engineer @ Lumafield
(Boston Metro) Sr. Instrument and Control Valve Commissioning Technician @ Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
(Boston) Mechanical Engineering Manager @ Volta Labs.
(Sparks, Nevada) Sr. Manufacturing Engineer, Battery Recycling @ Tesla.
4. Global Community Open Mic
(SF) Nathalie, founder of Neurode Labs, is looking to connect with anyone passionate about neurotech or solving ADHD.
(SF) Simon is looking to connect with hardware professionals as he designs an AI powered tutor device for students K12.
(SF) Vikram is looking to connect with anyone who wants to discuss robotic navigation systems, specifically exploring NeRF algorithms.
(New York) Naya’s idea to product contest is live using generative AI for designing 3d prints.
(Boston) MassRobotics Accelerator Program applications for 2025 are now open.
5. Upcoming Hardware Meetup Events
If you don’t see an event page up yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared 2 weeks prior.
1st Houston Hardware Meetup @ The Ion Prototyping Lab 🚀 (Sept 5)
LA Hardware Happy Hour @ RE+ (Sept 9)
1st Munich Hardware Meetup @ Dassault Systèmes 🚀 (Sept 12)
Oakland’s Hardware Happy Hour @ Flexia (Sept 12)
DC Hardware Meetup (Sept 12)
9th SLC Hardware Meetup (Sept 18)
100th NY Hardware Meetup 🎆 (Sept 23)
Philly Hardware Meetup (Sept 25)
Thanks for joining for this monthly recap!
See you at an upcoming hardware meetup,
Nate + Michael from Hardware Meetup
Ps. If you have feedback on what you’d like to see more of or ideas to improve, please do send along.