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Founding Hardware Engineer ($250k-380k + Equity) at Crewline AI

Jack & Jill
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/26/2025
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Founding Hardware Engineer

Salary: $250k-380k Equity

Company Description: Crewline AI - Autonomous Construction Vehicles Pioneer

Job Description:

Design and build core hardware systems for autonomous construction vehicles, retrofitting heavy equipment with plug-and-play autonomy. This role involves electrical, mechanical, and embedded domains, integrating sensors and actuators to bring remote control and autonomy assistance to industrial machines, transforming 50,000-pound machines into robots.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

  • Fix humanity's heartbeat: construction, by rebuilding our ability to shape the world with autonomous solutions.
  • Join a fast-growing, VC-backed startup (Initialized Capital, Nebular VC, Ford Street Ventures, etc.) that went from prototype to $220K ARR in
  • Build real-world robots, deploying and iterating on live construction sites, seeing your code move 20 tons of steel.

  • What you will do:

    • Design and develop teleoperation hardware systems, including power, compute, and control modules for heavy machinery retrofits.
    • Integrate and calibrate critical sensors like cameras, LiDARs, radars, GNSS, and IMUs using various interfaces.
    • Implement and validate communication protocols (CAN, LIN, J1939) for interfacing with existing ECUs and new control units.

    The ideal candidate:

    • A hacker obsessed with rapid iteration and pragmatic problem-solving, scaling from simple to advanced algorithms.
    • Former entrepreneur or someone with extreme agency, having built projects from scratch.
    • Experience across electrical, mechanical, and embedded domains, with a strong understanding of system design and prototyping.

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    Salary : $250,000 - $380,000

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