Hardware Meetup Newsletter (March 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. We have an opening to support Climate Tech Week in SF at Sofar Ocean (one of our largest events of the year)! And 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 of large meetups and launching new cities!
120th SF Hardware Meetup celebrated one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all times at Peak Design hosting 220+ people and talking everything design and go to market related for physical products.
104th NY Hardware Meetup joined 300+ people for climate tech and supply chain themed event with founders from It's Electric and Gradient.
55th Boston Hardware Meetup gathers tonight at Formlabs to discuss concept to production for new hardware devices.
15th LA Hardware Meetup gathered 100+ people at Duro with Calibrate VC and Hybron for launching hardware startups.
14th Zürich Hardware Meetup joined to discuss mechanical design for autonomous vehicles.
9th San Jose Hardware Meetup met at DraperU with talks from NexPCB and informal sharing the latest in robotics with 100+ people gathering.
6th Bridgeport Hardware Meetup discussed the future of manufacturing and aviation.
5th Burlington Hardware Meetup met at Rigorous Technology for all things manufacturing.
5th SD Hardware Meetup brought together speakers from Simplexity and SEACOMP to discuss optimizing hardware for manufacturing.
Boise Hardware Meetup Kickoff gathered 30+ hardware professionals at Mother Earth Brewing! 🚀
Austin Kickoff Party @ Xebec was the unofficial after party for Region X Region.
San Jose After Party for GTC was one of three events hosted for Nvidia’s GTC conference this last week.
3. Hardware Hiring Features
(SF Bay Area) Electrical Engineer @ Figure
(SF Bay Area) Manager, Upperbody Structures @ Rivian
(SF Bay Area) Sensor Performance Engineer @ Nuro
(SF Bay Area) Staff Firmware Engineer @ Sofar Ocean
(SF Bay Area) Hardware Engineering Program Manager @ Verkada
(NY) Staff Mechanical Engineer, Surgical Hardware @ Precision Neuroscience
(NY) Mechanical Engineer @ Reality Labs
(NY) Electrical Engineer @ Jobot
(Boston) Project Lead ASIC Engineer @ Draper
(Boston) Sr. Staff Hardware/Software Simulation Engineer @ Lightmatter
(Boston) Principal Automation Engineer, Workcell Builds @ Flagship
4. Global Community Open Mic
Hari is hiring founding robotics Engineering Lead to build industrial autonomous mobile robots.
Wing Tung, ex-Google and Apple, looking for Hardware Product Manager Roles.
Jaguar shares Bird, a 3D pointing technique in VR for selecting and manipulating objects based only on hand pose.
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.
NY Deep Tech Week Happy Hour @ Makelab (April 2)
2nd Sydney Hardware Meetup @ The Onset (April 3)
7th Bridgeport Hardware Meetup @ Soundview (April 8)
Philly Hardware Happy hour @ Solid Labs (April 9)
Onshape's Toronto Product Design Happy Hour (April 10)
105th NY Hardware Meetup @ Viam (April 17)
15th Zürich Hardware Meetup @ Event Hangar (April 24)
121st SF Hardware Meetup @ Sofar Ocean (April 24)
London Hardware Happy Hour after Hardware Pioneers MAX (April 24)
1st Charlotte Hardware Meetup @ Bravo Team (April 30)
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.