Colare raises $2.5M to move hardware engineer hiring assessments to the front
Rohan Paul comments on Colare raising a $2.5M pre-seed round: hardware engineer hiring typically consumes about 50 hours of senior engineers' time, yet the stage that truly tests actual working ability often comes last. Colare moves this stage forward, having candidates complete real tasks in a browser under proctored conditions using CAD, PCB, and FEA tools, and scoring candidates' trade-offs and reasoning process as well as their final designs against rubrics developed for that specific role.
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View original postWe’ve raised a $2.5M pre-seed to fix hardware hiring. The most reliable way to know if an engineer can do the job is to watch them work. In hardware, that’s been almost impossible to do at scale. Colare runs simulation-based assessments that show how candidates actually work, in the tools they’d use on the job, before anyone books an interview. We assess across: - Mechanical (CAD, DFM, FEA) - Electrical (PCB, schematics) - Systems - Manufacturing, & more. Candidates solve problems from first principles. Hiring teams see that across their whole pool, so engineers only interview people who’ve already cleared the bar. We're already working with everyone from seed-stage startups to multi-billion-dollar aerospace manufacturers. If you’re hiring hardware engineers, let’s talk: https://t.co/QGXxlg0QVh
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We’ve raised a $2.5M pre-seed to fix hardware hiring. The most reliable way to know if an engineer can do the job is to watch them work. In hardware, that’s been almost impossible to do at scale. Colare runs simulation-based assessments that show how candidates actually work, in the tools they’d use on the job, before anyone books an interview. We assess across: - Mechanical (CAD, DFM, FEA) - Electrical (PCB, schematics) - Systems - Manufacturing, & more. Candidates solve problems from first principles. Hiring teams see that across their whole pool, so engineers only interview people who’ve already cleared the bar. We're already working with everyone from seed-stage startups to multi-billion-dollar aerospace manufacturers. If you’re hiring hardware engineers, let’s talk: https://t.co/QGXxlg0QVh
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Hiring 1 hardware engineer takes roughly 50 hours of senior engineering time.
The rounds that test the real job come last.
Looks like @colareai is moving that test to the front.
Candidates do real work in CAD, PCB and FEA tools in the browser, proctored, and get scored on their trade-offs and reasoning as well as the final design, against rubrics engineers built for that specific role.
Congrats on the $2.5M pre-seed, @esthxrtho and @nain_abdi.