Full-Time
Product Engineer
Operations & Manufacturing Software
Updated on 9/4/2026
CircuitHub
51-200 employees
On-demand PCB prototype and assembly platform
Compensation Overview
£80k - £130k/yr
Remote in UK
Remote
Must maintain at least four hours of daily overlap with both US East Coast and UK teams; regular travel to factories in the US and UK is expected.
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- Strong PostgreSQL experience, including complex queries, performance tuning, and schema design.
- Solid data modeling and systems-design judgment.
- Hands-on systems integration experience stitching together APIs, tools, and workflows that hold up in production.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship production systems quickly and reliably.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to CircuitHub factories in the United States and United Kingdom and spend time on the factory floor partnering closely with operators and engineers.
- Own entire production software systems end to end, from understanding operational problems on the factory floor through designing, building, deploying, and operating the software that solves them.
- Own problems from discovery through deployment and operational impact rather than working only on isolated tickets.
- Build and maintain the internal operational stack connecting planning, materials, purchasing, personnel, and factory processes.
- Transform complex manufacturing workflows into highly reliable, usable software.
- Partner closely with factory operators, engineers, and company leadership to ensure factories scale smoothly as demand and Grid capabilities grow.
- Develop production planning tools and inventory/materials-flow systems.
- Improve factory operator workflows.
- Integrate new automation equipment.
- Apply artificial intelligence and large language models to automate operational decision making, including purchasing, production planning, machine diagnostics, and debugging.
- Build software systems coordinating manufacturing decisions across people, robots, inventory, and suppliers in real time.
- Identify bottlenecks and turn them into software systems that improve factory throughput.
- Own a meaningful portion of the production operations stack and measurably improve the reliability and throughput of the operations it supports.
- Familiarity with manufacturing, logistics, enterprise resource planning, materials requirements planning, or supply-chain systems.
- Experience building internal tools or operational software.
- Experience keeping mission-critical operational systems fast and reliable.
- Comfort collaborating closely with internal teams on a regular basis.
CircuitHub provides an on-demand electronics manufacturing platform that automates the production of printed circuit board (PCB) prototypes and assemblies for hardware teams, especially startups, to speed up product development from design to delivery. How it works: users upload their native CAD files to CircuitHub, which returns an instant online quote. The platform automatically handles component sourcing and matching, enabling both low-cost prototyping and batch production, scalable from a single unit up to 10,000 units. What sets it apart: tight integration with component suppliers and a software-driven workflow that streamlines the entire process, reducing lead times from weeks to days. The company's goal is to make electronics manufacturing as seamless and fast as software development by offering a single platform for design-to-delivery, from rapid prototyping to larger-scale production.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$48.6M
Headquarters
Deerfield, Illinois
Founded
2011
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- May 20, 2026 funding values CircuitHub at stronger growth momentum and credibility.
- 9 open roles in August 2026 signal hiring despite a capital-intensive market.
- European expansion through Cambridge and London can win sovereign manufacturing demand quickly.
What critics are saying
- JLCPCB, PCBWay, and MacroFab attack CircuitHub’s core prototyping workflow on price.
- Electronics manufacturing demands capital-heavy factories; 2027 expansion can exhaust the new $28M fast.
- Customer concentration in robotics, defense, and satellites exposes revenue to sector slowdowns.
What makes CircuitHub unique
- CircuitHub’s Grid automates PCB assembly with robotics, computer vision, and AI.
- May 2026 funding backs US and Europe factories, not just software.
- Blue Robotics uses CircuitHub for fast prototypes, proving demand from niche hardware teams.
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↓ -1%CircuitHub raises $28m to scale automated PCB factories. CircuitHub, an automated electronics manufacturing company that provides on-demand prototyping and scaled production of printed circuit boards, has raised $28m in funding led by Plural, an early-stage investment fund. The funding will accelerate the expansion of CircuitHub's automated factories across Europe and the US, grow its engineering team and extend the platform into full-service electronics manufacturing. Founded by CEO Andrew Seddon, CircuitHub has built the first-of-its-kind automated electronics manufacturing system that turns design files into printed, production-ready circuit boards in days. While CircuitHub launched its first facility in Massachusetts to be close to early customers, its R&D roots are in Cambridge, UK, with an expanding team across London and it's preparing for a broader European manufacturing footprint. CircuitHub's customers can upload designs and order circuit boards in seconds, via CircuitHub's online platform. From there, the company uses automated robotics, computer vision and AI to assemble these designs at its first 5,000-square-foot factory, the Grid, before shipping them. By automating large parts of the production process and monitoring quality via a small on-site team, CircuitHub's Grid can produce a single prototype or batches of 10,000 units across dozens of different designs simultaneously. "Today, hardware companies face a tough choice: either spin up their own vertically integrated manufacturing from scratch, or rely on a legacy Western supply chain that's been decaying for years, Seddon said in a statement. "CircuitHub is the alternative: providing remote access to a cutting-edge factory through your browser or your AI agent. Just as software companies share cloud compute, hardware companies can now share our Grid." Around 95 per cent of electronics projects today involve fewer than 10,000 units, but industry remains optimised almost entirely for mass production. For most hardware teams, manufacturing involves manual assembly, supply chain bottlenecks and rising labour costs, while iteration cycles can extend into months. Furthermore, critical supply chains are heavily concentrated in China, creating dependencies that are increasingly exposed to geopolitical tensions and disruption. The US alone has lost more than 85 per cent of its share of the global PCB market to lower-cost overseas manufacturers. The ability to design, test and manufacture electronics quickly and locally has become a commercial and strategic imperative, along with a significant market opportunity as electronics manufacturing services are on track to hit $1 trillion. Sten Tamkivi, Partner at Plural, said: "What CircuitHub is doing is fundamental. Andrew and the world-class CircuitHub team are changing the unit economics of the entire industry. As robotics, AI and advanced hardware accelerate, their combination of automation, software and data is making electronics manufacturing as fast, flexible, and accessible as writing code. This is also about resilience and sovereignty, ensuring that Europe and the US can design, build and iterate on critical technologies locally. It's the kind of infrastructure shift that creates billion-dollar outcomes and will supercharge progress across physical AI, from robotics to space, energy and defence."
CircuitHub's software-defined manufacturing model can help engineers designing satellites, robotics and autonomous systems move from design to production-ready boards in days.
CircuitHub is hiring Haskell engineers (remote).
r4 Technologies: The company raised $11.6 million of venture funding in the form of convertible debt from undisclosed investors on November 15, 2023.