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Hardware Entrepreneur & Co-Founder, Shape (YCS15)
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Comment · 8 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com/careers/) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | 3D Computer Vision ▪ Sr EE ▪ Sr Data Scientist ▪ Sr ME ▪ and more | $120K-170K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We recently closed our Series A and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the software and hardware, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side, we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging, and data collection.

Apply at:

- Senior Electrical Engineer: https://grnh.se/61db15562

- 3D Computer Vision Engineer: https://grnh.se/b47072fa2

- Senior Data Scientist / Geometric Deep Learning: https://grnh.se/5315a4df2

- Senior Mechanical Engineer: https://grnh.se/9d6421fb2

We also have a few more roles coming up for January including : Sr. Full Stack Developer, Back-end Software Developer, Office Manager, Firmware Engineer (Linux), Production/Program Manager/NPI. For which you can already reach out at [email protected].

Comment · 8 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com/careers/) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | 3D Computer Vision ▪ Senior EE ▪ Senior Data Scientist ▪ Technical Recruiter ▪ Senior ME | $120K-150K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We recently closed our Series A and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the software and hardware, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side, we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging, and data collection.

Apply at:

- Senior Electrical Engineer: https://grnh.se/61db15562

- 3D Computer Vision Engineer: https://grnh.se/b47072fa2

- Senior Data Scientist / Geometric Deep Learning: https://grnh.se/5315a4df2

- Senior Technical Recruiter: https://grnh.se/3feb2bc92

- Senior Mechanical Engineer: Not open yet, but should open up in a few days.

Comment · 8 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | StartX F17) (https://shapescale.com/careers/) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Embedded Firmware (Linux) Engineer | $120K-200K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the software and hardware, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side, we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging, and data collection.

The position is perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast-growing startup that comes with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

More info on the Embedded Linux role and apply at: https://grnh.se/ooeswi6u2

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Also will begin hiring soon for Mechanical Engineers (ideally with manufacturing experience and working with moving parts), Computer Vision Engineers, 3D Software Engineers, Full Stack- as well as Backend Engineers. These roles will likely only open in September, but feel free to send an email to [email protected] to get a head start.

Comment · 8 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com/careers/) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Embedded Firmware (Linux) Engineer | $120K-200K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the software and hardware, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side, we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging, and data collection.

Both positions are perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast-growing startup that comes with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

More info on the CV role and apply at: https://grnh.se/glwdm1tk2

More info on the Embedded Linux role and apply at: https://grnh.se/ooeswi6u2

Comment · 8 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Embedded Firmware (Linux) Engineer | $120K-200K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the software and hardware, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side, we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging, and data collection.

Both positions are perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast-growing startup that comes with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

More info and apply at https://shapescale.com/careers/

Comment · 9 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Senior Mechanical Engineer | $80K-130K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's a challenging product on the mechanical side, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm.

The position is perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast-growing startup that comes with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

More info and apply at https://shapescale.workable.com.

Comment · 9 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Mechanical Engineer | $80K-180K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale, and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the mechanical and computer vision side, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side, we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging, and data collection.

Both positions are perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast-growing startup that comes with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

More info and apply at https://shapescale.workable.com.

Comment · 9 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Mechanical Engineer | $80K-150K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the mechanical and computer vision side, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging and data collection. Both positions are perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast growing startup that come with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

Apply at https://shapescale.workable.com.

Comment · 9 years ago
Shape (YC S15 | Start X F17) (https://shapescale.com) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Computer Vision Engineer, Mechanical Engineer | $80K-150K + substantial equity

Shape is the company behind ShapeScale, a 3D personal body scanner, scale and fitness tracker that digitizes your body in photorealistic 3D. Its companion app then shows you where exactly you have been gaining muscle and losing fat by color-grading your 3D avatar.

We have recently launched a pre-order with thousands of sales and are looking to expand our engineering team. It's challenging both on the mechanical and computer vision side, due to ShapeScale's robotic, rotating and expanding arm. On the computer vision side we face interesting challenging involving 3D reconstruction, rejigging and data collection. Both positions are perfect for those looking to take a leading role in a fast growing startup that come with great opportunities for personal and career growth.

Apply at https://shapescale.workable.com.

Comment · 10 years ago
As a founder the biggest turn off for me is the fact that you cannot take on more than 500 non accredited investors. As soon you exceed that number and rake up $25M in assets you will be forced to go public, which is absolutely bonkers.

Now to me equity crowdfunding is inherently powerful that you can make investments as little as $100. This dramatically lowers the risk, and makes it a small gamble for small time investors. But as an entrepreneur with a max of 500 investors you end up with a mere $50k, which almost defeats the effort for most startups.

Comment · 10 years ago
You are discounting the power of small investors. There is a good chance that your unaccredited investors altogether will cast a larger network than your VCs. Also if done right they could become super fans and the best possible promoters of your product. They definitely bring something to the table, but it will be somewhat different than what you'd expect from a YC.
Comment · 10 years ago
Any day better than what you get on Kickstarter. It's a start and a full-audit costs 25-50k which would literary defeat the purpose of this.
Comment · 10 years ago
What are some good strategies you guys used to narrow and improve your messaging for your crowdfunding campaigns?

Did you rely on qualitative feedback (by real people or usertesting) or on quantitative results (A/B conversions testing on ad copies and landing pages)? Or did you just go with your gut?

Comment · 10 years ago
For those of you that did Kickstarter and not Indiegogo or a selfstarter (Celery/Tilt/Shopify) campaign:

How happy were you with the experience so far? There are a few up and downsides as drabie had mentioned before.

Taking all of that into account, would you use Kickstarter again if you had the choice again?

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