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Hardware Systems Engineer

Lumafield

Job Location:

Boston, MA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 120000 - 160000

Posted: 4 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 10 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

About Lumafield:

Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.

We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle from initial ideas to shipping hardware across industries and specializations who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.

Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created manufactured and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively.

We rebuilt the whole system from X-ray capture to computer vision analysis to web-based collaboration to the entire business model making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company like our platform is designed for upgrades. Were building for greater intelligence autonomy and speed. For deeper vision operational excellence and powerful insights. And then well upgrade it all again.

Lumafield is headquartered in San Francisco CA. and has an office in Cambridge MA.

About the Role:

The Hardware Group is looking for a Hardware Systems Engineer to join our Cambridge office and own the breadth of hardware development for a new class of industrial CT scanners. This is a hands-on highly interdisciplinary role on a team taking new industrial machinery from concept to production. You will be directly responsible for system architecture electrical design embedded integration and prototype bring-up while partnering with mechanical software manufacturing and product engineers. Youll work alongside a small fast-moving team that values curiosity rigor and system-level thinking. If youre a well rounded electrical engineer embedded engineer robotics engineer or similar this role is for you.

This is a full-time in-person role based in our Cambridge MA office.

What youll do:

Drive the system architecture. Translate product-level requirements into a clear split across electrical and firmware. Own designs that meet the requirements.
Select and qualify the critical parts (motors sensors actuators motion controllers power supplies) and own the rationale and tradeoffs. Make the buy-vs-build decisions on the components that matter.
Write drivers for the peripherals you pull onto the product and land them in the appliance firmware and application stack with the Systems Software team.
Use PCB CAD tools to design embedded electronics and PCBs.
Build the prototypes. Turn a wrench build cables bring up boards and bring a pile of parts up to a working integrated system.
Own test and validation. Plan it fixture it run it analyze the data and push corrective actions back into the design.
Own your portions of the product through the development cycle from concept to production.

About you:

4 years of hands-on experience taking a complex electro-mechanical or robotics product from blank page to working hardware.
Breadth of knowledge in electronics and embedded code. You dont need to be the best in the room at either but youve done both on real products.
A tinkerer at heart - you chase ambiguity into the hardware and keep digging until you understand why a system behaves the way it does.
Enthusiastic about working in a fast-paced high-ownership startup environment where the work is challenging and rewarding.

Bonus points for:

Background in motion control closed-loop systems or sensor fusion.
Shipped a hardware product from first prototype to production at volume.
Experience with X-ray systems or other radiation-emitting equipment.

$120000 - $160000 a year

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation as well as a health & wellness stipend 401k parental leave flexible PTO commuter benefits company wide events and more!

Lumafield is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills because the more inclusive we are the better our work will be. Do you feel like your skills dont meet every single requirement listed We encourage you to apply anyway If youre excited about our technology the opportunity and are eager to learn more wed love to hear from you!

In keeping with our beliefs and goals no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race color ancestry national origin religion age gender marital domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity disability genetic information or veteran status.

Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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