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Industrial · Anywhere · 20–2,000 employees

Hardware Engineering Company

License CAD assemblies, circuit designs and test results from real products.

  • You earn up to

    $81,000

  • Company earns

    $60K–$810K

    Depends on assembly count and completeness

Houston scopes the data, signs an NDA and runs the export, removing or protecting personal information.

About

We're looking for engineering teams with native CAD vaults: complete assemblies with their feature history, circuit board designs, drawings and the test results that go with them. Automotive, aerospace, robotics and industrial equipment are the priority.

Location
Anywhere
Company size
20–2,000 employees
Track record
Several product generations
Kinds of companies
Automotive suppliers, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment, product design consultancies, EV and drone makers

Is it a fit?

What we're looking for

  • Full multi-part assemblies in native CAD with feature trees, not only exported meshes
  • Designs the company owns, not customer IP
  • Several products or product generations

Not a fit

  • Single parts or parts catalogs
  • Designs owned by your customers

Who knows companies like this

Mechanical and electrical engineers, PLM administrators, and robotics founders.

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What the license covers

  • CAD assemblies and drawings
  • Circuit designs
  • Simulation and test files

Nice to have, adds to what the company earns

  • PCB designs and Gerber files
  • Drawings and bills of materials
  • Firmware
  • FEA and CFD simulation files
  • Measured test results for designs

Tools we work with

  • SolidWorks PDM
  • PTC Creo
  • Siemens NX
  • Autodesk Fusion
  • Onshape
  • Altium
  • KiCad
  • ANSYS

Questions we'll ask the company

If the company can answer these, it is likely a good referral.

  1. Which CAD system, and roughly how many assemblies?
  2. Do you own the designs, or do customers?
  3. Do you keep simulation or test results?
  4. Which industries are your products in?

How referrals work

  1. 1

    Find a fit

    Pick an open request and think of a company that matches.

  2. 2

    Refer them

    Share the company and a few details about it, in about a minute.

  3. 3

    We do the work

    We scope their data, agree a license and handle the export.

  4. 4

    You get paid

    Up to $81,000 per company, after their first delivery.

On this request

Up to $81,000

  • 10% of what we agree to pay the company
  • Confirmed when the company signs its data license
  • Paid after their first delivery
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