The Role
Work as an individual contributor executing design ingestion, component analysis, and processing through the companys validation pipeline. Track progress, peer-review outputs, refine SOPs, analyze throughput, report tooling friction to developers, support stakeholder communication, and help build ITAR/export-controlled on-prem operations capacity.
Summary Generated by Built In
Operations Specialist
We are seeking professionals who can help us challenge the status quo of the electronics design industry.
We are accelerating the world’s hardware ingenuity by blending generative AI, ML, and novel approaches to electronics simulation and validation. We provide our enthusiastic enterprise customers intelligent and automated access to the most advanced validation tools, eliminating respins and helping engineers of all levels deliver their designs faster, cheaper, and with less waste.
We are a small team of innovators passionate about fundamentally improving how electrical engineers deliver electronics designs with higher confidence. Our founders are responsible for creating the largest product development firm in the US and for building Azure Quantum at Microsoft.
Position Overview
We are expanding our design review operations team and adding a hands-on Operations Specialist to work alongside our Senior Operations Lead. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder processing customer designs through our analysis pipeline, building the capacity we need as we scale processing volume by 10x.
This is an individual contributor role with significant strategic importance and an excellent opportunity for an early-career electrical engineer to build deep technical and operational experience in a fast-moving startup environment. You will provide parallel operations capacity and fallback coverage so the team can absorb growing volume, sustain throughput and keep the development team focused on building and improving our technical tooling.
Core Responsibility
Execute design ingestion, processing, and delivery alongside the Senior Operations Lead. Absorb operational load so engineering can stay focused on tooling improvements, and provide parallel capacity as we scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute hands-on data entry, component analysis, and design processing tasks
- Shepherd individual designs through the pipeline, tracking progress and flagging bottlenecks
- Participate in peer review of processed designs to maintain quality standards
- Help refine and document standard operating procedures as the team learns what works
- Analyze processing times and surface operational inefficiencies
- Provide structured feedback to the development team leads on tooling friction and improvement opportunities based on hands-on user experience
- Support stakeholder communication regarding status and delivery timelines
- Contribute to operational metrics and dashboards
- Build toward ownership of on-prem, ITAR-eligible and export-controlled operations as the company stands up that capability
What Success Looks Like
- Throughput: meaningful reduction in design processing time-to-completion as team capacity grows
- Quality: increased throughput without sacrificing quality standards
- Predictability: improved milestone delivery timeline accuracy
- Team focus: reduced operational burden on the development team
- Resilience: the operations function continues to deliver when the Senior Operations Lead is unavailable
- Product improvement: concrete, prioritized feedback that helps the development team improve tooling based on hands-on user experience
- Scalability: demonstrated ability to take on growing customer demand alongside the Senior Operations Lead
Required Qualifications
- Technical foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or a closely related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience. Recent graduates and engineers early in their careers are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Technical experience: Hands-on academic, internship, co-op, project, or professional experience involving electronics, component-level analysis, datasheets, circuit design, testing, validation, or related technical work.
- Hands-on orientation: Comfortable spending the majority of your time executing the work, not just thinking about it.
- Location: Based in or able to commute to Montreal, Quebec (hybrid)
- Export-control eligibility: Eligibility to work on ITAR-controlled and other export-controlled projects strongly preferred.
Essential Skills and Characteristics
Technical Competency
- Strong electronics knowledge enabling effective communication with practicing engineers
- Comfort working with package data sheets, component-level analysis, and design data
- Systems thinking ability to see how individual tasks fit into the broader workflow
- Process-oriented mindset with a curiosity for finding small improvements
Operational Excellence
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to keep multiple designs moving in parallel
- Detail-oriented with proactive issue identification
- Multi-tasking proficiency managing concurrent designs and priorities
- Problem-solving focus on identifying and surfacing process inefficiencies
- Communication and Collaboration
- Bridge-building skills interfacing between technical and business teams
- Comfort working as part of a small, tightly-coordinated team where peer review and informal handoffs are the norm
- Clear communication regarding status, blockers, and deliverables
Role Differentiation
This is a hands-on operations contributor role, not a project manager or operations leader. You will be an individual contributor on our operations team, working alongside the Senior Operations Lead, who oversees end-to-end design processing and operational strategy. The role requires strong technical fundamentals and a strong appetite for hands-on work.
Where this role fits in the broader operations picture:
Senior Operations Lead: owns process design, manages the offshore operator team, and leads our operational strategy.
This role (Operations Specialist): provides parallel hands-on processing capacity, fallback coverage, and is the foothold for ITAR-eligible operations as that capability stands up.
Field Applications Engineer: bridges the operations team to the customer handoff.
Growth Opportunity
This role offers the opportunity to grow with the company as we scale processing volume and streamline automated analysis delivery. As the operations team grows, individual contributors will have the chance to deepen technical specialization, take on broader scope within their area of expertise, and step into ownership of ITAR-eligible and export-controlled work as that capability comes online over the next 12 to 18 months.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering or closely related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Hands-on academic, internship, co-op, project, or professional experience with electronics, component-level analysis, datasheets, circuit design, testing, or validation
- Comfortable spending the majority of time executing hands-on operational tasks
- Based in or able to commute to Montreal, Quebec (hybrid)
- Strong electronics knowledge enabling effective communication with practicing engineers
- Comfort working with package datasheets, component-level analysis, and design data
- Exceptional organizational, multitasking, detail-oriented skills and ability to track multiple designs in parallel
- Eligibility to work on ITAR-controlled and other export-controlled projects
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The Company
What We Do
Cadstrom provides automated PCB validation services to help engineering teams catch design errors before fabrication, preventing costly respins and saving significant time. Their solution is built by engineers for engineers, focusing on deterministic validation and IP security.
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