About Copperhead

Copperhead is an open-source AI engineering platform for electronics that designs, documents, and validates real printed circuit boards from a written brief.

The platform turns natural-language requirements into editable KiCad projects, helping hardware teams move from product specifications to manufacturing-ready PCB designs faster. As an early-stage company, Copperhead offers the opportunity to shape core technology and product direction at the intersection of AI, developer tools, and electronics engineering.

Explore Copperhead at https://copperhead.sh.

Role: Founding AI Engineer

As a Founding AI Engineer at Copperhead, you will design, build, and scale the core systems that translate written requirements into validated PCB designs.

You will work directly with the founder to define the product, make foundational architecture decisions, experiment with new agentic workflows, and build reliable software for real-world electronics engineering.

This is a full-time, in office role based in Bengaluru.

What you’ll work on

- Build AI agents that plan, generate, modify, and verify PCB designs
- Develop reliable tool-use, context, evaluation, and orchestration systems
- Improve schematic generation, PCB layout, component selection, and datasheet understanding
- Integrate LLMs with KiCad, deterministic verification tools, and open-source EDA infrastructure
- Design production-quality backend systems and developer-facing interfaces
- Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and test coverage
- Own projects from initial exploration through production deployment




- Contribute to technical documentation and open-source engineering practices
- Help establish Copperhead’s engineering culture and development processes

What we’re looking for

- Strong software engineering skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or similar languages
- Experience building AI products, intelligent agents, model integrations, or workflow orchestration systems
- Ability to write clean, tested, and maintainable production code
- Sound understanding of system design, APIs, infrastructure, performance, and monitoring
- Comfort working through ambiguous technical problems and owning outcomes end to end
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Interest in electronics, hardware design, or PCB engineering, with the ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly

Previous PCB design experience is useful but not required.

Nice to have

- Experience building developer tools or open-source software
- Familiarity with KiCad or other EDA tools
- Experience with LLM evaluation, structured generation, or agent reliability
- Contributions to technically ambitious open-source projects
- Prior experience at an early-stage startup A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field is welcome, but equivalent practical experience matters just as much.

Why join Copperhead

- Join at the founding stage and shape the product, architecture, and company
- Work on challenging problems across AI, software systems, and electronics
- Take meaningful ownership from your first day
- Build openly alongside an emerging developer and hardware community
- Help define how engineers design hardware with AI

📌 Founding AI Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 copperhead
📍 Bengaluru