Senior Hazardous Environments Design Engineer

At Laminar, we're leading the charge in cleantech innovation, reshaping process industrials and manufacturing to drive operational efficiency and sustainability for our world’s most foundational industries. Powered by our Laminar AI Co-pilot models and state-of-the-art sensors, our solutions optimize facility performance across various processes, including process manufacturing, production, water management, energy reduction, and waste minimization. Based at Greentown Labs, North America's premier cleantech innovation community, we're a woman-founded startup backed by renowned investors like Construct Capital, 2048 Ventures, and Flybridge Capital. Our groundbreaking technologies have earned accolades and adoption from industry giants like Unilever, The Coca-Cola Company, ABinBev, and Mitsubishi Electric. We're committed to unlocking untapped data for our customers, empowering them to gain a competitive edge and create Industry 4.0.

Transforming our most foundational sectors of society is hard. Very hard. But we’re building an empire. And empire building is not easy. It’s deeply fulfilling, and you will learn and grow tremendously while driving sustainable impact globally with some of the largest players that make everything we eat, use, and wear. Our culture is to foster extraordinary growth within our teammates. We believe in autonomy, ownership, empowerment, demanding excellence, being mission-driven. We believe in creativity, authenticity, and extraordinary growth. We’re looking for relentless, ambitious, creative, and exceptional people to join our team and build the factory of the future.

About The Role

We’re seeking a senior-level Hardware Engineer whose work will focus modifying our sensing systems for installation in hazardous environments (ATEX, Class 1 Div 2 and similar). You will work closely with other engineers across the HW team to assess sensor designs, determine key feature sets, architect test plans and redesign electronics and housings as needed. This role will directly perform PCB design and evaluation, sensor experimental design and housing redesign. You will work closely with colleagues to fabricate R&D systems and test them thoroughly to evaluate performance relative to non-hazardous environment versions. We value a self-sufficient, hands-on engineer who isn’t afraid to ask questions and is comfortable building out a hazardous environments design program while doing the first versions directly. Your work will directly impact our hardware product design, improve prototype iteration speed, and help Laminar to save more resources every day.

What You Will Do:

• Assess customer hazardous environment needs and design compliance plans to be able to deploy in hazardous atmospheric environments, specifically starting with alcohol vapors, powdered organics (flour) and solvent vapors

• Work with the HW team to determine necessary design changes to meet hazardous environment requirements

• Design and protype PCBs from commercially available and custom sensors using KiCAD, SolidWorks, and simulation software such as PSPICE

• Provide efficient and reliable advice on build vs buy decisions and what portions of hazardous environmental design and testing to contract out vs bring in house

• Develop and implement test strategies alongside the Laminar Data Analysis team. Collect and present this data in informal and formal reviews to allow for rapid analysis and sensor comparisons.

• Contribute to the overall hardware team by providing design, assembly, and debug assistance on multiple projects.

About You

Required

• 5+ years (senior level) experience in electronics design and mechanical design in industrial environments

• Clear and relevant experience in hazardous environment design and certification both domestically and internationally – top priority for this role

• PCB design experience with advanced microcontrollers, low noise analog sensor systems, industrial comms protocols and high density design or a deep desire to learn quickly

• Significant product development experience, with a focus on new product bringup and R&D. Expect to talk about previous design projects in your interviews with the team

• Generalist mindset: comfortable working with all parts of electromechanical assemblies, data logging, as well as system-level topics

• Clear, efficient, and respectful communicator, good at balancing multiple projects and shifting priorities

• Travel up to %5 to customer sites

Preferred

• Full stack product development experience. Have taken multiple products from concept through to volume production and sunsetting and comfortable working throughout that lifecycle.

• Experience working with PCB contract manufacturers, machine shops both domestic and international, and a strong level of experience with DFM concepts

• Significant prior experience navigating the balance between “move fast and break things, but not the important things”

• Embedded system coding experience, preferably in Zephyr RTOS or similar

Benefits

• Full-time position with competitive compensation and benefits

• Direct impact on product and culture

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more

• 401k plan with employer matching

• Equity

• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities

• Dynamic and inclusive work environment

• Opportunities for growth and professional development

• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups

Learn How We Think

• Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey

• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech

• A customer story: Ben & Jerry's uses Laminar's precision automation to cut time & water usage

Why Laminar?

Impact: Work on cutting-edge AI and sensor tech that’s already transforming how factories use water, energy, and chemicals. Join a tight-knit, ambitious team where your contributions can reshape the industry.

Growth: Join a fast-growing startup where you’ll have the opportunity to shape our content strategy. We value fostering extraordinary growth in our teammates.

Innovative Culture: Work in a high-performance environment that values empowerment, creativity, ownership, autonomy, innovation, excellence, passion, and continuous growth.

Sustainability Focus: Play a key role in promoting sustainability and Industry 4.0 advancements in manufacturing.

Build the intelligence layer powering the next generation of industrial efficiency – with a team that moves fast and delivers real impact.

Our Interview Process:

• Phone screen with Laminar Recruiter (15-20 minutes) Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
• Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep
• On-site interview, including short tour of GTL, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members
• Two professional references
• Background check

A recent study from LinkedIn showed that most women apply to jobs only when they meet 100% of the requirements, whereas men will hit the apply button if they hit 60%. Laminar is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. So, to the women and nonbinary folks out there feeling unsure if you're a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that’s transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you!