Build the lab
Lab buildout, floor planning, rack-mounted equipment, power requirements, workstations, and installation readiness.
Hardware R&D Lab Operations
Elif(EH-leef)Sanchez
Engineering environments, made ready
Building the spaces, systems, and test infrastructure that let hardware teams move.
CurrentHardware Lab Manager
Based inSan Francisco (SOMA)
Operating approach
A hardware lab should feel invisible when it works.
Elif combines hands-on electronics work with the operational discipline required to build, scale, and maintain fast-moving engineering environments. The result is practical infrastructure, reliable equipment, and fewer blockers between an idea and a test.
Keep it ready
Procurement, receiving, inventory, asset lifecycle, vendor coordination, safety standards, and practical SOPs.
Support the hardware
Prototype builds, electrical testing, wiring, soldering, fixtures, troubleshooting, validation, and NPI support.
Selected experience
From the bench to the buildout.
2025 - Present
Base Power
Hardware Lab Manager
Owns the operating model and physical infrastructure for an R&D lab supporting prototype electrical systems, hardware validation, and engineering testing.
2025 - 2025
Tesla
Industrial Engineering
Improved hardware manufacturing capacity, workstation layouts, equipment readiness, and process flow, including throughput gains of up to 20%.
2023 - 2025
GraphWear Technologies
Production and Lab Manager
Led biosensor prototype lab operations, electrical testing, technician workflows, fixtures, procurement, and hands-on hardware troubleshooting.
2020 - 2022
Goldmaster Electronics
Industrial / Production Engineer
Supported electrical hardware assembly, functional testing, root-cause analysis, equipment readiness, documentation, and NPI.
Inside the work
Built alongside good people.
From early prototypes to operating labs, the best hardware work is grounded in shared ownership and hands-on problem solving.
What she brings
Technical enough to troubleshoot. Structured enough to scale.
Elif's experience spans lab management, industrial engineering, hardware manufacturing, prototype assembly, and validation. She pairs cross-functional coordination across facilities and contractors with hands-on work using oscilloscopes, wiring, soldering, and custom fixtures.
- 100%+
- Weekly output improvement through fixture redesign
- 20%
- Throughput improvement from equipment and process changes
- 4
- Hardware environments spanning R&D and production
