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Senior engineering, without the overhead.

We help founders, startups and mid-size companies get hardware built without a long hiring search, a risky hire or a project that needs managing. You get senior mechanical engineers, a prototype lab in Kearny, New Jersey, and a plan you can see from estimate to handoff.

Prototyping wall in the Flores Engineering lab in Kearny, NJ, with SLA and FDM printers, a laser cutter and a desktop CNC
Why I started Flores

Sergio Flores

Founder & principal engineer

I spent my career inside hardware companies: MakerBot, Stryker and ULC Robotics. The engineering was rarely the hard part. The hard part was everything around it.

Teams waited months to hire an engineer, and sometimes the hire did not work out. Outside firms added account managers and padded quotes. Projects stalled because nobody owned the plan, and founders spent their time chasing updates instead of building their company.

I started Flores Engineering in 2024, and went full time in 2025, to fix that. You get senior engineers who start in a week, a cap on every phase, and a live project page so you always know where things stand. We run the plan, so you do not have to manage us.

The bigger goal is simple: help more good hardware get designed, built and manufactured here, by making professional engineering easy to start for founders, startups and mid-size teams.

Experience before Flores (work that belongs to those companies)

MakerBot
Method XL exterior paneling and gantry
Stryker CMF
Test fixtures and design for manufacturing
ULC Robotics
Utility robotics
What we take off your plate

Engineering that just runs.

Built for founders with an idea, startups racing to a prototype, and mid-size teams whose roadmap outgrew their headcount.

No hiring riskNo 45-day search, no recruiter fee and no bad hire to undo. Turn senior engineers on for a phase and off when you are done.
No project to manageWe own the plan. You get weekly updates and a live project page with cost, status and timeline, so nothing needs chasing.
No overheadNo account managers and no padded quotes. You pay for the hours you need, with a cap on every phase.
The team

Small on purpose.

Full-time mechanical engineers at the core, with industrial design and electrical engineering brought in when a project needs them.

RemonMechanical engineer · full timeCAD, drawing packages and design for manufacturing on client projects.
KendrickMechanical engineerMechanical design and CAD support across projects.
John LloydMechanical sustaining engineerEngineering changes, drawing updates and supplier questions after release.
Blake ShermerIndustrial designerConcepts, renders and color, material and finish.

Electrical and firmware engineers join on projects that need a custom board.

Tools and partners we work with
CAD & design
SolidWorksFusion 360
In our lab
Formlabs SLABambu Lab X1C & H2SCarvera CNC
Manufacturing partners
SendCutSendProtolabsFictiv
How we think

Three rules on every project.

Simplicity firstSolve the problem with the fewest moving parts.
Honest scopingSay what is hard, costly or uncertain before you spend on it.
Built to manufactureDesign for the factory from day one, not as a final step.
Where we work

Our office and lab, under one roof in Kearny.

Clients are welcome at the lab to see prototypes running and review parts in person.

Office & lab
78 John Miller Way, Suite 430
Kearny, NJ 07032 · minutes from NYC
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Flores Engineering sign on the glass wall of Suite 430 in Kearny, NJClear SLA resin housing with a circuit board insideCarvera desktop CNC turning a shaft on its rotary axisLab workbench, tool chest and engineering stations in the Flores Engineering lab