Hardware Meetup Newsletter (Dec 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 35+ 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: Onshape Hardware Startup Program
Recap of Last Month’s Events
Hardware Hiring Features
Community Open Mic
Upcoming Events
We’re grateful for you helping make this community the best hardware community for professionals!
Enjoy!
1. Sponsor Spotlight: Onshape Hardware Startup Program
Accelerate your product development with powerful tools designed for modern manufacturing. Onshape Professional, the industry's only cloud-native CAD platform, is now available at no cost for qualified startups, who are new customers. Design anywhere, collaborate seamlessly, and protect your IP with enterprise-grade security. Plus, get access to exclusive perks including e-learning resources and expert workshops.
2. Recent Meetup Recaps
This month we had some great holiday parties with live demos!
SF Hardware Holiday Party had 125+ people join with live demos in new wearables and AI enabled hardware at Studio 55.
NY Hardware Holiday Party gathered 100+ people at Newlab with consumer hardware demos.
13th Zurich Hardware Meetup brought together people over vintage computing at Zurich Innovation Park.
3rd Bridgeport Hardware Meetup met at Soundview to discuss all things Hardware.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF/Bay Area) Mechanical Engineer @ OpenAI
(SF/Bay Area) Electrical Engineer—Power @ Astranis
(SF/Bay Area) Senior Mechanical Engineer (I,II,III) @ Cellares
(SF/Bay Area) Electrical Systems Engineer @ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
(SF/Bay Area) Data Center Mechanical Engineer, Thermal Cooling @ Google
(SF/Bay Area) Robotics Engineer (all levels) @ Chef Robotics
(SF/Bay Area) Lab Safety Engineer @ Amazon Robotics
(NY) Firmware Engineer, Battery and Charging, Google Pixel @ Google
(NY) Staff Mechanical Engineer: Surgical Hardware @ Precision Neuroscience
(NY) Software Engineer - Controls @ Reflex Robotics
(NY) Sr. Robotics Software Engineer - Test and Validation @ Amazon Robotics
(NY) Firmware Engineer II @ Resideo
(Boston) Senior Systems Integration Engineer (Liquid Handling) @ Volta Labs
(Boston) Principal Embedded Software Engineer @ RISE Robotics
4. Global Community Open Mic
(SF) Julio is a neurologist and pain specialist at UCSF looking for his next biomedical role to bring it to market.
(SF) Will is working on room temp DNA + RNA sample storage.
(SF) Mario offers cybersecurity services: SOC2 and HIPAA compliance, penetration testing and red team operations.
(NY) Gennady launched Averia Collar for direct sale—offering advanced global tracking, activity monitoring, unmatched durability, and safety features for pets.
(NY) Silja is supporting climate companies scale up manufacturing needs. Apply here.
5. Upcoming Hardware Meetup Events
If you don’t see an event page yet, it will be up shortly. Most are shared a couple weeks prior.
More events to come in 2025! And most are posted about one month out.
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, send along.