Maker-in-Residence — The Deep-Tech Foundry Raghu University | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh | Full-Time | On-Site About Us Raghu University is a newly formed Deemed to Be University in Visakhapatnam, founded by an entrepreneur who also built a 300-person enterprise SaaS company serving clients across 12 countries. The Deep-Tech Foundry is where students take ideas from screen to physical product. We’re setting up a prototyping lab with 3D printers, PCB fabrication, soldering stations, CNC machines, and edge AI hardware. The goal: student projects that become startups with real, shippable hardware products. The Role A student team has an idea for a water quality monitoring device for aquaculture farms. They can write the software. But who helps them design the enclosure, fabricate the PCB, solder the sensor array, 3D-print the housing, and CNC-mill the mounting bracket? Who turns their screen mockup into something a farmer can hold in their hands? That’s you. The Maker-in-Residence runs the prototyping lab inside The Foundry. Your job is to help student teams go from working code to working hardware — the kind you can demo to a customer, pitch to an investor, or ship to a first user. You’re not maintaining equipment for a college lab. You’re building an setting where student hardware startups are born. What You’ll Do • Mentor student teams on hardware prototyping end-to-end: concept → CAD → 3D print / CNC → electronics design → PCB fabrication → assembly → working prototype • Help teams design and fabricate custom PCBs — schematic, layout, fabrication, soldering, testing, iteration • Run 3D printing operations: help students prepare CAD files, select materials, optimise prints, troubleshoot failures • Guide CNC operations when needed (we have CNC specialists on campus — you coordinate with them for student projects that require milling)



• Bridge hardware and software: help teams integrate sensors, microcontrollers, and edge AI devices into physical products. A trained AI model is useless until it lives inside something a user can touch. • Push teams toward startup-grade prototypes, not science fair demos: “This can’t have exposed wires if you’re demoing to a customer. Let’s design a proper enclosure.” • Manage the prototyping lab: inventory, consumables (filament, solder, components, PCB substrates), equipment maintenance, workspace organisation • Conduct safety inductions: soldering, 3D printing, ESD protection, workshop discipline • Participate in weekly standups and monthly Demo Days — help teams present hardware that works, not just slides about hardware What You Won’t Do • Sit in a storeroom waiting for requests • Teach lectures or grade lab exams • Fill out equipment utilisation reports • Manage CNC operations (we have dedicated specialists for that) • Report to any academic department Who You Are • You’ve built physical products — not just one-off prototypes, but things that were designed to be used by someone. You have photos or videos to show. • You’ve designed and fabricated PCBs: schematic to layout to working board. KiCad, Eagle, or Altium. • You’re comfortable with 3D printing (FDM). Slicing, material selection, troubleshooting. • You can solder confidently — through-hole and basic SMD • You understand embedded systems: Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, STM32, or similar. Firmware,



datasheets, serial communication. • You know what CNC can do and when to use it, even if you’re not operating the machine yourself • You think in terms of “is this ready to show a customer?” not just “does it work on the bench?” • You’re patient with beginners but push advanced teams toward production-grade quality • 2–6 years in hardware prototyping, product engineering, electronics design, or a hardware startup Nice to Have • Experience at a hardware startup where you took a product from prototype to manufacturing • Experience with NVIDIA Jetson or other edge AI deployment platforms • DFM (Design for Manufacturing) awareness — helping teams think about how their prototype becomes a product • CAD expertise (Fusion 360, SolidWorks, FreeCAD) • Enclosure design for electronics products • Experience running or working in a makerspace or prototyping lab • Sensor integration for IoT / industrial / agriculture applications What We Offer • Compensation commensurate with experience • A prototyping lab you help set up from scratch — you’ll shape the layout, workflow, and culture • A team around you: software mentoring, GTM strategy, and operations are handled by others. You own hardware prototyping. • The chance to help student teams build hardware startups — not just projects, but products • Visakhapatnam — India’s emerging AI capital. A growing tech ecosystem and a city that’s genuinely pleasant to live in. How to Apply Send to : 1. Photos or videos of hardware you’ve built (mandatory) 2. A few lines on: what’s the most complete physical product you’ve taken from idea to working prototype? 3. Why helping students turn projects into products sounds like your kind of work No formal resume needed. Show us what you’ve made.

📌 Maker In Residence (Andhra Pradesh)
🏢 Raghu Engineering College
📍 Andhra Pradesh