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News
Technologies
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$37M
1 round on record
Latest round
$37M
Series B · Feb 2026 · 7 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
2
8VC, PWV
The money's age
Fresh money
7 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 27 Raised a round Series B $37M · led by 8VC · YahooFinance Jun 27, 2023 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Flux Copilot – Generative AI for hardware design Apr 27, 2023 On the Hacker News front page ChatGPT for Hardware Design · 312 points 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.33%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
86 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Feb 2026 $37M 8VC lead YahooFinance
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How Flux hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
274 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Flux scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 274 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Flux is a cloud-native electronic design automation (EDA) platform specializing in AI-assisted printed circuit board (PCB) design. Operating directly in the browser, the platform features real-time multiplayer collaboration alongside an AI copilot that assists hardware engineers with component sourcing, schematic capture, automated routing, and continuous design rule checks.

News

News SiliconANGLE 23 days ago
Flux expands its platform to show whether AI coding investments are paying off
Flux expands its platform to show whether AI coding investments are paying off - SiliconANGLE
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
Flux Power Reports 2026 Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results
VISTA, Calif., Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flux Power Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLUX) (
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Flux EDA Combines PCB Design and AI
Flux EDA puts PCB design, AI, collaboration, and manufacturing tools in one place. But can it really simplify the entire hardware design process?
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News MIT Technology Review 2 months ago
The role of the astronaut is in flux
Human spaceflight has been racking up new milestones. But we're still grappling with a fundamental question: Why go in the first place?
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News textideo.com 3 months ago
FLUX 3 AI Model - Multimodal Image & Video Generation
Explore FLUX 3, a multimodal AI foundation model for image and video generation. Create realistic visuals and creative content with advanced AI technology.
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News bfl.ai 3 months ago
FLUX 3: Multimodal Video, Image & Audio
Meet FLUX 3, Black Forest Labs' multimodal model for video with native audio, image generation, and action prediction. Explore capabilities and early results.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Flux over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript50%
JavaScript50%
Node JS40%
Python10%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js50%
Redux20%
LangChain10%
LangGraph10%
Cloud & platforms
Figma100%
GitHub100%
AWS30%
GCP30%
AI & ML
LLM20%
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Full Flux tech stack 34 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$248k – $270k
Open positions
6
5 Jobs
Senior 60%
Staff 20%
Architect 20%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 3 $250k $248k – $250k
Staff 1 $250k $250k
Architect 1 $270k $270k
Highest paying role Head of Hardware Design $270k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Flux By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
7
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
273 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
29% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
Frontend
14% ▼
Hardware
14% ▼
Leadership
14% ▼
Sales
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Stripe to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Aug 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026
Added OrCAD to stack Aug 2026
Added Mentor Xpedition to stack Aug 2026
Added KiCad to stack Aug 2026
Added HyperLynx to stack Aug 2026
Added Cadence Allegro to stack Aug 2026
Added Ansys SIwave to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
7 open roles 71% engineering 50-200 est. staff $253k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Backend, Frontend
seen since Nov 2025 job postings

Jobs

$183k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
Design
Figma
Apply
$245k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
GitHub
Chips/EDA
KiCad
Cadence Allegro
OrCAD
Mentor Xpedition
Ansys SIwave
HyperLynx
Design
Figma
Apply
$183k – $248k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
Pulumi
CI/CD
AWS
Google Cloud Run
AWS Lambda
GitHub
Design
Figma
QA
Sentry
Apply
$183k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Redux
React.js
WebAssembly
Mobile
State Management
DevOps
GitHub
Design
Figma
Apply
$183k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
AWS
Grafana
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
Stripe
QA
Sentry
Apply
$183k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
LangGraph
LangChain
AI Agents
NLP
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
Redux
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
Design
Figma
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$37M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 $37M Details