Hardware Meetup Newsletter (Jan 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:
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 follow up happy hours from CES + kickoff events in different cities!
SF Hardware Happy Hour brought together multiple demos from CES and 100+ people joining at Studio 55.
NY Hardware Happy Hour gathered 80+ people at nTop to kickoff the year.
5th Seattle Hardware Meetup had 100+ people joined and shared demos at Made Cascade.
4th Soundview Hardware Meetup is building momentum with 25+ people meeting this month to discuss all things hardware.
As a bonus, check out SF and NYC’s highlight reels from 2024.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF/Bay Area) Mechanical Engineer - All Levels @ Figure
(SF/Bay Area) Engineering Manager, GPU Platform @ OpenAI
(SF/Bay Area) Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Vehicle Cameras @ Tesla
(SF/Bay Area) Principal Firmware Engineer (Connected Appliances) @ Fellow
(SF/Bay Area) Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Hardware and Networking @ Crusoe
(NYC) Staff Mechanical Engineer: Surgical Hardware @ Precision Neuroscience
(NYC) Hardware Engineer + Development @ Live Building Systems
(NYC) Mechanical Engineer @ Manufacturing Co
(Boston) Electrical Engineer @ Anduril
(Boston) Staff Mechanical Engineer @ Whoop
(Boston) Senior Sustainability Mechanical Engineer - R&D @ Shark Ninja
4. Global Community Open Mic
(SF) UCSF Law Startup Garage is offering free legal services.
(NYC) Christina is selling extra PLA 3D printing filament.
(Finland) Jolla demo’d their AI Edge hardware solution at SF’s Meetup.
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.
3rd Houston Hardware Meetup @ The Ion Prototyping Lab (Feb 6)
1st Pittsburgh Hardware Meetup @ Innovation Works (Feb 13) 🚀
119th SF Hardware Meetup @ Humanmade | Wildfire Prevention (Feb 13)
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.