Senior Product Engineer, First Resonance
Product Manager
$150-200k
+ Offers Equity + Employee Stock Option Plan
Factory operating system for manufacturers
Be an early applicant
Factory operating system for manufacturers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
+ Offers Equity + Employee Stock Option Plan
21-100 employees
Company mission
First Resonance's mission is to empower those who are building the future.
Role
Who you are
- Mandatory Engineering Experience: At least 3+ years of professional experience writing production code (Full-stack, Backend, or Systems Engineering)
- Manufacturing/Domain Expertise: Deep firsthand experience within manufacturing, hardware development, supply chain, or industrial IoT (e.g., you know the pain of inventory reconciliation or production planning)
- Product Fluency: 2+ years of experience in product lifecycle ownership (as a PM, Tech Lead, or a founder)
- Technical Stack Comfort: Mastery of web service architectures, API patterns (REST/GraphQL), and common data formats (JSON/XML)
- Systems Thinker: Ability to understand a complex physical manufacturing process and immediately visualize the software system required to support it
What the job involves
- First Resonance is looking for a Senior Product Engineer to become the bridge between software development, hardware manufacturing, and customer needs. This is not a role for a Jira administrator or a generalist manager.
- It is a role for a "builder" with deep engineering roots who is ready to take full ownership of designing, building, and delivering the digital ecosystem that powers modern factories
- You will join a high-impact, small product team working directly with customers (building things like electric airplanes, robotics, and spacecraft) to turn messy, real-world manufacturing chaos into elegant, scalable software solutions
- As a Senior Product Engineer, you will treat the product as your codebase. Your primary goal is to ensure technical feasibility meets user desirability from inception to deployment
- Own the Technical Blueprint: Translate complex, raw manufacturing workflows into deep product specifications, user stories, and architectural requirements that our core engineering team can execute against immediately
- Rapid Prototyping & Logic Validation: You won't just draw mockups; you will "code in draft." Use your engineering background and AI tools to build functional prototypes, validate logic flows, and perform initial testing on complex integrations
- "In-the-Weeds" Discovery: Spend significant time with customer engineers and factory floor operators. Use your systems thinking to diagnose root issues and design solutions that traditional generalist PMs would miss
- API & Integration Strategy: Lead the definition and strategy for our external integrations (ERP, PLM, QMS) and internal APIs, ensuring a scalable and performance-oriented ecosystem
- Mentor and Bridge: Serve as the translator between business stakeholders and technical teams, elevating the product fluency of the engineering team
Our take
First Resonance was co-founded by a former SpaceX engineer to offer manufacturers end-to-end software to create any modern hardware, from electric or aerial vehicles to satellites or robotics.
Since founding in 2018, the company has amassed a growing list of extremely impressive customers including satellite manufacturer Astranis, aircraft automation startup Reliable Robotics, and the NYSE-listed Joby Aviation, which intends to operate an air taxi service with its fleet of electric aircraft.
The complexity of the operations that First Resonance’s customers are undertaking speaks to the value of the startup’s OS, especially when it comes to things like part traceability, collaboration, supply chain, and data analytics. The company has secured significant investment, as well as generating impressive interest from the industry, which all suggests it will continue to grow as time goes on.
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Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$14m
SERIES A
Dec 2020
$3.5m
SEED
Total funding: $17.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Generous life and disability insurance for you and your family
- Flexible PTO
- 401K retirement plan with employer match
- Other financial benefits and services to give you financial peace of mind
- Up to 16 weeks of parental leave
- Equity
- Flexible spending accounts
- Work-from-home setup
- Remote & hybrid options (role dependent)
- Amazing office in Downtown LA
Company HQ
Los Angeles, California
Leadership
Karan Talati
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former SpaceX Manufacturing and Software Engineer, and former Data Engineer at Sense360. Before this, they interned in Advanced R&D Engineering at Samsung Electronics and in Mechanical Development for Motorola Mobility.
Neal Sarraf
(Co-Founder & Boardmember)Investor and former OnDeck Fellow, who previously worked in Corporate Development & Strategy for Uptake. They also worked in Investment Banking for William Blair, and Strategy Consulting for PwC.
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