Linus Meierhoefer
| Linus Meierhoefer | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, software engineer |
|---|---|
| Known for | Founder of Stillwind |
Linus Meierhoefer is a technology entrepreneur and the founder of Stillwind, a company developing tools for autonomous electrical engineering. The company's first product, Stillwind Search, is a search engine that allows users to find electronic components using natural language queries rather than traditional parametric search interfaces.[1]
Career
Meierhoefer founded Stillwind with the goal of modernizing and ultimately automating aspects of the electrical engineering workflow. According to reporting by Huge Magazine, Meierhoefer is one of four ETH Zurich graduates behind the company.[2]
The company's initial product, Stillwind Search, addresses a longstanding problem in electronics design: the difficulty of locating suitable electronic components across fragmented and poorly indexed databases. Existing distributor catalogues and datasheet aggregators typically rely on coarse-grained categorization schemas and lack the ability to handle queries that combine semantic intent with exact specifications. For example, a query such as "a microcontroller I can put into a toy rocket with 5V operating voltage" is difficult to resolve using conventional embedding-based search or traditional parametric filters alone. Stillwind Search converts natural language queries into fine-grained specifications and matches them against a proprietary database containing millions of electronic parts.[3]
Stillwind describes the search engine as the first step in a broader roadmap toward autonomous electrical engineering. The company's published roadmap outlines several additional planned capabilities beyond component search. These include real-time digital simulation tools intended to give electrical engineers a fast trial-and-error feedback loop comparable to what software developers experience, analog circuit modeling using machine learning methods, firmware-in-the-loop testing, and spatial reasoning capabilities for component placement and routing — a task the company notes that language-based foundation models handle poorly by default.[4]
As of early 2026, Stillwind Search was in development with a public waitlist available on the company's website.
References
- ↑ "Stillwind – Autonomous Electrical Engineering". 'Stillwind}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Stillwind Thinks Finding Electronic Parts Should Be as Easy as Texting". 'Huge Magazine}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Stillwind – Autonomous Electrical Engineering". 'Stillwind}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Stillwind – Autonomous Electrical Engineering". 'Stillwind}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.