Electronic Engineer

The company

A billion people live with obesity. They can't afford a $30/day GLP-1 — but they could afford a $1/day one. What stands between those numbers is manufacturing.

Anaula is building the operating system for autonomous biomanufacturing: cheap bioreactors that sense, control, and optimise living biology themselves, deployed as a fleet. Cheap hardware plus an intelligent control layer that makes it productive and scalable. The moat is the platform, not the box.

We're pre-seed, Dublin-based, founder-led with a technical co-founding team (ex-Intel, Google, MSD), and we have a contracted anchor customer in pharma. We prototype on the bench, run live cultures, and move fast.

The role

You'll own two things that are really one problem: the electronics that run the reactor, and the control system that makes it think.

Today we have prototype-grade code. You'll build the real control stack from the ground up, with the hardware it runs on. This is a founding role. You set the architecture, and what you build becomes the foundation every future reactor runs on.

The signature challenge is automated scaling. A bioprocess that works in a small reactor normally takes a specialist team months to re-engineer at each new scale. We're building a control stack that does it automatically: bench to production, and across a fleet, without manual re-tuning. Solving that turns cheap hardware into an autonomous manufacturing platform. You'd own it.

What you'll build

The real-time control, automated scale-up logic, and optimisation system that runs the reactor fleet. Custom mixed-signal PCBs and embedded subsystems for distributed LED control, sensing, and actuation. Robust embedded firmware for control loops, data acquisition, fault handling, and comms. Bring-up, test fixtures, and validation for repeatability and safety.

What we're looking for

• Full-cycle PCB design (schematic capture, layout, DFM/DFT) with strong mixed-signal fundamentals
• Bare-metal or RTOS C/C++ firmware for microcontrollers
• Practical control systems: PID, system identification, real-time scheduling, stability
• Sensor integration: conditioning, filtering, calibration, noise mitigation
• Fluent with scope and logic analyser across hardware, firmware, and system level
• 3 to 6 years hands-on, or the absolute chops to match it
• High agency, comfort with ambiguity, desire to build a company not just a board

Why apply

Real founding equity, not a token grant. You set the architecture. The problem is genuinely hard and genuinely matters.

If "teaching a fleet of reactors to scale a living process by themselves" sounds like the most interesting problem you've heard this month, apply and send us something you've built.

We care more about what you've shipped than your CV.