Hardware Meetup Newsletter (Feb 2025)
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 30,000 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:
Opportunity Spotlight: Partner for Conference After Parties
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. Opportunity: Partner for Conference After Parties
One of the best parts of Hardware Meetup across cities is hosting large after parties at different conferences. We’ve hosted at TechCrunch Disrupt (SF), Climate Week (SF+NY), 3DExperience World, and more. This year we’ve got NVIDIA’s GTC lined up in San Jose with DataCrunch. We’re looking for sponsors and partners who want to help us host more after parties for hardware conferences. Reach out if that’s you!
2. Recent Meetup Recaps
This month was full with large meetups and launching new cities!
119th SF Hardware Meetup gathered 300+ people and teams solving prevention and quick response to wildfires, including Pano AI, Carbon Origins and more.
103rd NY Hardware Meetup covered all things medtech for 200+ people with speakers from Sinai BioDesign and NexPCB hosted at City Tech.
10th Portland Hardware Meetup met at Continuous Solutions with speakers from Skylab and Refcco.
5th Austin Hardware Meetup @ Re:3D with founders and engineers discussing hardware development.
3rd Houston Hardware Meetup discussed electrical engineering for prototyping and production at Ion Prototyping Lab.
1st Pittsburgh Hardware Meetup 🚀 kicked off with 120 people at Innovation Works with topics around off road vehicles and electroadhesive brakes.
1st Sydney Hardware Meetup 🚀 launched with 100+ people discussing everything hardware related at espresso Displays.
1st Toronto Hardware Meetup 🚀 gathered over global trade policies, supply chain, and manufacturing with speakers from Mosaic Manufacturing and more.
ATL Hardware Happy Hour hosted by Steadfast Design Co at Gate City Brewing Company.
Boston Product Design Happy Hour gathered 150+ people at Onshape.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF/Bay Area) Power Electronics Engineer @ Figure
(SF/Bay Area) Staff Electronic Design Engineer @ Rivian
(SF/Bay Area) HW/SW Co-Design Engineer @ OpenAI
(SF/Bay Area) Lead Test Automation Engineer - Hardware @ Sofar Ocean
(SF/Bay Area) Sr. Staff Hardware Systems Engineer @ Crusoe
(SF/Bay Area) Hardware Sustaining Engineer @ Verkada
(NY) Staff Electrical Engineer @ SciPro
(NY) Senior Mechanical Review Engineer, PE @ GreenLite
(Boston) Embedded Hardware Engineer @ Formlabs
(Boston) Senior Mechanical Engineer, AR - Hardware @ Amazon
4. Global Community Open Mic
Nick is creating smart brakes for rollators with automatic slope control and more.
Amy is building a platform for AI product design from idea to manufacturing.
Mark is building a game console for real world table games.
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.
9th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ DraperU Ventures | Robotics (March 4)
14th Zürich Hardware Meetup @ IPZ (March 4)
120th SF Hardware Meetup @ Peak Design | Consumer Tech (March 6)
Austin Kickoff Party @ Xebec (March 7)
San Jose AI + Hardware After Party for GTC by DataCrunch (March 18)
104th NY Hardware Meetup | Climate Tech & Supply Chain (March 20)
Boise Hardware Meetup Kickoff @ Mother Earth Brewing (March 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 reply back.