Cadstrom

Role Description We are hiring a Field Applications Engineer to own the technical relationship with our customers. You will be the credible engineering voice our customers talk to, walking them through results, fielding their technical questions, and making sure they get real value out of the platform. This is also our highest-leverage customer support seat. You will be close enough to customer designs and to the product to speak authoritatively when customers have technical questions, push back on results, or need help getting more value out of the platform. You will work closely with our internal operations and engineering teams to keep the customer-facing experience sharp, and you will be the customer’s primary technical contact throughout the engagement. Core Responsibility - Own the technical relationship with Cadstrom customers. - Author customer-facing deliverables, drive technical conversations, and ensure customers continue to extract value from the platform across the lifecycle of an engagement. Key Responsibilities - Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customer engagements. - Author and deliver customer-facing reports and supporting materials. - Lead technical walk-throughs, working sessions, and follow-up conversations with customer engineers. - Defend, contextualize, and refine results in conversation with customers. - Support customer adoption: help customers integrate Cadstrom into their existing design and review workflows. - Surface customer use cases and adoption signals back to internal teams. - Identify expansion opportunities and partner with sales to convert customer success into broader engagements. - Contribute to customer-facing documentation, onboarding materials, and best-practice guidance. What Success Looks Like - Customer confidence: deep technical credibility established with customer engineers, low escalation rate. - Customer outcomes: measurable engagement and adoption growth across assigned accounts. - Deliverable quality: customer-facing reports and conversations consistently land as polished, accurate, and engineer-credible. - Expansion: identified use cases and adoption patterns that turn pilots into broader engagements. - Product signal: structured feedback to internal teams that helps improve the customer-facing experience. Qualifications - Technical foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or a closely related technical field. Advanced degree welcome. - EE experience: 5+ years of hands-on electrical engineering experience, ideally including board-level design, debug, or design review. - Customer-facing experience: prior experience working directly with external technical customers in an FAE, applications engineering, customer engineering, or similar role. - Citizenship and location: US citizenship and US residency are required for this role. Essential Skills and Characteristics - Technical Competency - Strong board-level EE judgment: comfortable reading a schematic, reading a data sheet, and forming a defensible opinion. - Comfortable across the analog and digital boundary: power, signal integrity, bus topology, basic mixed-signal considerations. - Curiosity for how modern validation tooling works and where it adds the most value. - Customer-Facing Excellence - Strong written communication: can author a customer-facing report that reads as credible to a senior EE. - Strong verbal communication: can hold a substantive technical conversation with a customer engineer who pushes back. - Calm under technical scrutiny, comfortable defending or revising a position on the merits. - Demonstrated ability to build trust with technical customers and grow accounts over time. - Operational Maturity - Comfort working closely with internal operations and engineering teams, not just customers. - Ability to manage multiple concurrent customer engagements without dropping balls. - Process-oriented mindset: helps document what works and surface what does not.

Role Description We are hiring a Senior AI Developer who is passionate about electronics. You'll play an early and foundational role building the AI tools at the heart of Cadstrom – from LLM-based pipelines that extract structured component data from manufacturer datasheets, to AI-driven validation of customer circuits, to self-improving systems that get smarter every time they run. The work is detail-dense and multi-modal: graphs, tables, cross-referenced text, and parameters buried deep in application notes. You'll drive our experimentation framework end-to-end, dig deep into failure modes, and ship incremental improvements that compound over time. We move fast – the product is shipping, customers are live, and every week matters. This is a high-ownership role for a detail-obsessed AI developer who treats Cadstrom's outcome as their own. We are accelerating the world's hardware ingenuity by blending generative AI, ML, and novel deterministic approaches to electronics simulation and validation. We're providing our enthusiastic customers intelligent and automated access to the most advanced validation tools for catching design errors before they reach fab – helping engineers of all levels deliver their designs faster, cheaper, and with less waste. We are a small team of innovators who are passionate about fundamentally improving how electrical engineers deliver electronics with higher confidence. Key Responsibilities - Manage highly automated AI flows for data extraction from electrical component datasheets. - Build AI pipelines that perform validations on customer circuits, integrating retrieval, agentic systems that think like a seasoned EE, and deterministic checks into trustworthy end-to-end flows. - Build benchmarking pipelines and evaluation tooling that electrical engineering domain experts use to analyze, calibrate, and improve our AI systems. - Design and ship self-improving systems exposed to our customers – closing the loop between production signal, evaluation, and model and prompt improvements. - Build and optimize tools (MCP-based or otherwise) for AI agents, ensuring agents can reliably interact with Cadstrom's platform and data. - Diagnose failure modes by digging into model outputs and traces, documenting root causes, and proposing fixes at the data, prompt, or schema level. - Partner closely with electrical engineers to internalize domain conventions and translate that understanding into better prompts, schemas, and evaluations. Qualifications - 3-4 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML or applied data engineering with shipped work in production or active pilot. - Practical experience with LLMs (prompt engineering, few-shot/ICL, RAG, or agentic patterns) and interest in multi-modal inputs (PDFs, tables, figures). - TypeScript experience – typing, packaging, services, and automated tests. - Strong grasp of experiment design: reproducibility, significance, appropriate metrics, and ground-truth curation. - Git proficiency and collaborative dev habits (peer reviews, readable self-documenting code). - Meticulous attention to detail in debugging and root-cause analysis. - Excellent written and visual communication; you summarize messy problems crisply and use plots and figures to convey insights. - Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field. Preferred Qualifications - Experience building and optimizing tools (MCP-based or otherwise) for use by AI agents. - Electronics fundamentals (e.g. interpreting a datasheet) via coursework or hobbyist experience. - Retrieval (vector DBs), chunking/embedding strategies, and context budgeting. - LLM-ops platforms (LangSmith, LangFuse, DSPy). - Data pipelines in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP/Azure). - Startup experience, or a research-based Master's in a STEM field. - Based in Montreal or the GTA. Personal Qualities - Detail-obsessed. - Bias to action with high ownership. - Disciplined experimenter. - Clear communicator. - Embraces the ethos of "We, not I." Benefits - Early Stage Equity Package – meaningful early-stage equity in a high-growth company. - Impact – significant impact for our customers and the industry. - Care – strong belief in caring for each other and supporting one another. - Leading benefits – 0% co-pay across the board, and a $2k/year HSA. - World-Class Backers – backed by Bison Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and the Allen Institute for AI. Company Description We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment. We actively work to create an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all employees without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Role Description We're hiring a Principal Backend Developer to join the Cadstrom Platform team and own the core service infrastructure powering our product end-to-end: - The operator data review and entry systems that fuel our knowledge base - The services backing our AI analysis - The orchestration layer that runs distributed simulation workloads for our deterministic validation engine As a senior IC, you'll set the technical bar for the team's services, make the hard architecture calls, and stay hands-on shipping the work — AI-assisted development means writing the code yourself is usually the highest-leverage move, not the lowest. We move fast — the product is shipping, customers are live, and every week matters. This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who treats Cadstrom's outcome as their own. We are accelerating the world's hardware ingenuity by blending generative AI, ML, and novel deterministic approaches to electronics simulation and validation. We're providing our enthusiastic customers intelligent and automated access to the most advanced validation tools to eliminate respins – helping engineers of all levels deliver their designs faster, cheaper, and with less waste. We are a small team of innovators who are passionate about fundamentally improving how electrical engineers deliver electronics with higher confidence. Key Responsibilities - Own the architecture and implementation of Cadstrom's core platform services. - Build and evolve our AWS infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, balancing speed, cost, and reliability as we scale. - Design and maintain our Postgres data model — schemas, indexing, query patterns, and migration strategy. - Set the technical bar for backend services across the team: service boundaries, API design, observability, deployment practices, and operational realities. - Architect and operate distributed compute for our simulation workloads — job orchestration, scaling, reliability, and cost control. - Ship. You're hands-on by default, mentoring through code reviews, architecture discussions, and your own commits. - Partner cross-functionally with AI/ML, frontend, and electrical engineering domain experts. - Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools as a daily driver. Qualifications - 8+ years shipping backend systems in production, with at least 3 years operating at a Principal, Staff, or equivalent senior IC level. - Deep TypeScript experience for production backend services. - Hands-on experience designing and operating Postgres at production scale. - Strong experience managing AWS infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform). - Track record of making significant architecture decisions that influenced product direction and team velocity. - Experience with distributed systems, orchestration, and operating long-running compute workloads. - Excellent written and verbal communication. - Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field. Preferred Qualifications - Experience shipping systems that back AI products. - Experience with Nest.js or equivalent TypeScript server frameworks. - Experience operating distributed simulation, batch, or scientific computing workloads. - Familiarity with containers for service deployment. - Familiarity with EDA tooling, electronics design, or other complex technical domains. - Startup experience. - Based in Montreal or the GTA. Personal Qualities - High-ownership senior IC. - Hands-on by default. - Strong technical voice without ego. - Advocate for excellent engineering practices. - Pragmatic over perfect. - Clear communicator. - Calm in ambiguity. - Embraces the ethos of "We, not I." Benefits - Early Stage Equity Package — meaningful early-stage equity in a high-growth company. - Impact — significant impact on customers and the industry. - Care — strong belief in caring for each other. - Leading benefits — 0% copay across the board, and a $2k/year HSA. - World-Class Backers — backed by Bison Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and the Allen Institute for AI. Company Description We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment. We actively work to create an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all employees.

Role Description We're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead one of the development teams driving Cadstrom's mission to make bug- and revision-free circuits a reality. This is a people-first leadership role with a strong technical voice. - Responsible for the health, velocity, and craft of a team of 7–15 developers spanning full-stack, frontend, backend, and platform work. - Engage deeply in architecture reviews, push back on shaky designs, and help your team make sound technical bets. - Treat Cadstrom's outcome as your own, bringing real intensity to the work. Key Responsibilities - Lead a team of 8–15 engineers spanning full-stack, frontend, backend, and platform work — owning the team's delivery, quality, and morale. - Build a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership, craft, candid feedback, and shared accountability. - Ensure the team is used effectively — match people to problems thoughtfully, remove blockers quickly, and protect focus. - Drive operational excellence in how the team plans, ships, and supports its software. - Provide strong technical guidance during architecture reviews, design discussions, and trade-off conversations. - Partner cross-functionally with Operations, AI/ML, electrical engineering domain experts, and other engineering leaders. - Grow the team — recruit, interview, onboard, and retain engineers. - Run performance management with care and clarity. - Adapt to evolving project needs and take on various roles as required in a startup environment. Qualifications - 3+ years of direct people-management experience leading software engineering teams of at least 5 engineers. - Track record of leading teams that span full-stack web development. - Hands-on background as a software engineer earlier in your career. - Knowledge of service architecture: API design, service boundaries, observability, reliability, deployment practices. - Demonstrated success building a high-performance team culture. - Excellent written and verbal communication. - Experience hiring strong engineering candidates at all levels. Preferred Qualifications - Experience managing a team that included frontend (React or similar) and Node.js/TypeScript backend engineers. - Familiarity with AI/ML systems. - Experience working in a high-growth startup environment. - Familiarity with the realities of supporting enterprise customers. - Experience working with cross-functional partners in complex technical domains. - Background contributing to or operating engineering organizations of 30+ engineers. Personal Qualities - People-first leader who measures success through the team's success. - High-trust, high-candor with direct feedback. - Strong technical voice without ego. - Bias to action with high ownership. - Strategic thinker balancing short-term and long-term goals. - Calm in ambiguity, creating clarity for the team. - Self-aware and coachable, seeking feedback on management. - Embraces the ethos of "We, not I." Benefits - Early Stage Equity Package – meaningful early-stage equity in a high-growth company. - Impact – significant impact on customers and the industry. - Care – strong belief in caring for each other and supporting one another. - Leading benefits – investing deeply in health and wellbeing with leading startup benefits. - World-Class Backers – backed by Bison Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and the Allen Institute for AI. Company Description We are a small team of innovators who are passionate about fundamentally improving how electrical engineers deliver electronics with higher confidence.