Kyros Engineering
The engineering team for companies that have a product to build and no team to build it.
We are a Cleveland product-development firm that takes hardware from concept to manufacturable reality — system architecture, electronics, PCB design, and embedded firmware for regulated and performance-critical products. Senior engineers only, on the work that decides whether a product ships.
Who should take the meeting
Founders building a physical product
You have a product to build and no team to build it — or a team that is strong everywhere except the electronics. We are the engineering group that takes it from block diagram to a board you can put in front of a customer.
Investors with hardware in the portfolio
Hardware is usually the schedule risk in the deck, and it is the hardest line item to diligence. We read architectures for a living. If a portfolio company is late and nobody can explain why in plain language, that is a conversation worth having.
Corporate innovation and R&D leads
Internal teams are excellent and permanently oversubscribed. We take the idea-stage and MVP-stage work your engineers cannot context-switch into, run it as a dedicated pod, and hand it back documented.
What is on the bench right now
Client names are withheld by policy. The discretion is part of what we sell — a firm that names its customers on a marketing page is telling you what it will do with yours.
NASA SBIR photonics program
Six boards on one program — analog front ends, a low-noise transimpedance detector module, a light-source board with current and thermoelectric control, and a mixed-signal sensor board — carried from schematic review through layout, controlled fab release, and turnkey build.
Optical diagnostics and patient-contact instrumentation
Device architecture and electrical design for regulated products — an optical diagnostic instrument and a patient-contact therapy device among them — worked against IEC 60601-1 and FDA submission requirements from the first architecture decision rather than retrofitted at the end.
Inherited firmware, on real hardware
The work nobody else wants: a device that hangs mid-operation, in code we did not write, when the four obvious theories are all wrong. Our published fault-forensics case study walks the dead ends as well as the fix.
Who you would actually be working with
Peter Sords
Founder & Director of Engineering
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Lehigh University. M.S. Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University — control theory, analog, power electronics, and robotics. Trained at two of the country's top product-development firms, including Kaleidoscope Innovation, plus implantable-neurostimulation startups and MRI RF.
Roughly a decade in medical devices and dozens of shipped consumer, industrial, and energy products. Every Kyros engagement is architected and reviewed by Peter personally — one number, one person accountable, and a hand-selected team built per project rather than whoever happens to be on the bench.
- Amazon Proteus autonomous warehouse robot
- Honda Factory 4.0 line systems
- 7T MRI RF coils and delta-sigma converters (QED)
- Class III implantable neurostimulators (SPR)
- Smart thermostats, water heaters, and connected consumer devices
Delivered in prior roles at established product-development firms, not as Kyros engagements.
We published 19 engineering tools. They are free.
Not lead magnets behind a form — working tools we built because we needed them, and publish because a founder shouldn't have to buy a consulting hour to get an answer this basic. They are also the fastest way to judge whether we know what we are doing, and you can do it without ever speaking to us.
Regulatory Pathway Finder
Fifteen questions returns your FDA classification, the applicable IEC and ISO standards, and a prioritized documentation checklist.
Power Budget Calculator
Operating modes and duty cycles against 110 datasheet-verified components — a battery-life number that matches reality.
BOM Cost Estimator
Volume-tiered pricing at 1, 100, 1K and 10K units, with risk flags on obsolete parts and alternates suggested.
DHF Starter Kit
Generates a Design History File scaffold to 21 CFR 820.30, tailored to device class and software safety class.
We start with a paid architecture and roadmap study
Not a proposal, and not free consulting. A short, scoped, paid study that settles the expensive fork before anyone commits a build budget to it — the architecture, the risks that actually govern the schedule, and what the whole program is likely to take. Most of the money lost in hardware is lost in the first four weeks, on a decision made without enough information.
You own the work product. If we never work together again, you still have a roadmap you can hand to anyone.
What I am looking for
Mostly, people. Founders whose hardware is the risky part of the plan. Investors and operators who run into that problem across a portfolio and have nowhere good to send it. Engineers worth knowing.
Kyros is founder-owned and funded by its own revenue, so there is no round open and no deck behind this page. That said — if you invest in or build hardware companies in this region and think a serious engineering execution layer is worth backing, I am genuinely interested in the conversation.
And if you are raising right now and the hardware is the part of the deck you are least sure about, that is exactly the conversation I want to have.