Wearable Electronics Engineer — Sensor & Hardware Bring-Up

Snap; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc. in Paris is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design and develop wearable hardware enabling advanced sensing capabilities and user-centric experiences.

You will own hardware characterization, PCB layout, and integration with firmware and algorithms, collaborating across hardware, software, mechanical teams to move prototypes toward repeatable production. You will work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment that values rigorous testing, documentation, and

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in electrical or hardware engineering.
• Experience taking electronic hardware from schematic through bring-up, characterization, and iteration.
• Experience integrating analog and digital circuitry, power management, sensors, and embedded hardware interfaces within a larger system.
• Experience analyzing and characterizing sensor signals using laboratory equipment, filtering, spectral analysis, and noise and interference measurements.
• Experience collaborating across hardware, firmware, mechanical, and software disciplines to resolve system-level integration issues.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop electrical systems for wearable prototypes, from early architecture through implementation and validation.
• Integrate sensors, analog front ends, power, clocks, communications, and embedded interfaces into compact wearable platforms.
• Partner with remote hardware engineering teams to align on system integration, requirements, and technical tradeoffs.
• Support schematic capture, PCB design reviews, component selection, design-for-test, and hardware documentation.
• Lead board bring-up and debug using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, and other laboratory equipment.
• Characterize signal quality, noise, interference, power behavior, and system performance in realistic wearable conditions.
• Build test plans and automated or semi-automated validation workflows for prototype hardware.
• Collaborate with firmware and algorithms engineers to expose reliable sensor data and diagnose end-to-end system issues.
• Work with mechanical and industrial design partners to package sensors, boards, connectors, and flexes within compact wearable form factors.
• Translate experimental prototypes into robust designs suitable for repeated builds, field studies, and productization.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly through design reviews, documentation, test reports, and concise engineering updates.

Skills

Circuit design

Power delivery

Signal integrity

Sensor interfaces

Embedded hardware

EEG signals

Signal processing

Lab instrumentation

English fluency

Cross-functional work

Education

Master's EE

Tools

Cadence Allegro

OrCAD Capture

Altium Designer

SPICE simulations

Job description

Snap Inc. in Paris is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design and develop wearable hardware enabling advanced sensing capabilities and user-centric experiences.

You will own hardware characterization, PCB layout, and integration with firmware and algorithms, collaborating across hardware, software, mechanical teams to move prototypes toward repeatable production. You will work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment that values rigorous testing, documentation, and