Electrical Engineer

Avive; Brisbane (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avive is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our R&D team. You will design, develop, and test products, conduct benchtop prototyping, debugging, schematic design, and test execution across new and existing devices.

In a fast-paced environment, you will gain exposure to the full product development cycle and directly observe life-saving impact in the field.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering is required.
• 1–3 years of industry experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience designing, testing, and analyzing mixed-signal circuitry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with electrical, firmware, mechanical, and QA engineers to develop life-saving products.
• Analyze and debug circuits across MCUs, power supplies, ECG, audio, and wireless modules.
• Design schematics and PCB layouts for development boards, rapid prototypes, and test fixtures.
• Support benchtop bring-up of new PCBAs and validate electronics for production readiness.
• Design and execute test suites, document results, and present data-driven conclusions.
• Perform soldering, rework, and hardware modifications during prototyping phases.

Skills

Circuit analysis

Schematic design

PCB design

Lab equipment operation

Soldering

Firmware basics

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

About Avive:

Avive Solutions, Inc. https://avive.life is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are a dynamic organization that builds elegant, creative solutions to solve complex problems. Ultimately, our mission is for all cardiac arrest victims to have rapid access to life‑saving defibrillation.

Avive is taking a fresh approach to addressing this decades‑old problem by innovating AED technology, coupled with a first‑of‑its‑kind software platform solution to enable a quicker and more streamlined response to SCA emergencies. We believe that this unique combination of deploying advanced – yet still accessible – hardware, and software, has the potential to revolutionize out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrest response and massively impact SCA survival rates.

Check out this short video that shows a glimpse of how our team is working to re‑think cardiac arrest response and save lives! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p4zfOWo62E

Learn more about working at Avive: https://avive.life/careers/

Summary/Objective:

We are looking for an Electrical Engineer to join our R&D team and contribute to the design, development,and testing of our products. In this role, you’ll solve challenging technical problems and drive benchtopprototyping, debugging, schematic design, and test execution for both new and existing products. As a fast‑paced company with a small team, at Avive you’ll quickly gain exposure to every stage of the product development cycle and have the opportunity to directly see the life‑saving impact of your work in the field.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with electrical, firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, test, and quality engineers to develop and launch features for life‑saving products and accessories.
• Analyze and debug circuits across a wide range of electronic modules (MCUs, power supplies, high voltage, ECG, audio, cellular, Wi‑Fi, and more).
• Instrument, operate, and interpret data from oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, logic analyzers, and other lab equipment to support development of new features, identify failure mechanisms, stress‑test designs, and characterize trade‑offs.
• Design schematics and PCB layouts for development boards, rapid prototypes, and test fixtures.
• Support benchtop bring‑up of new PCBAs. Validate electronics for production readiness.
• Design and execute test suites, document results, write technical reports, analyze data, and present data‑driven conclusions.
• Perform soldering, rework, and hardware modifications during prototyping phases.
• Implement minor firmware adjustments to support hardware tests or enable debug features.
• Analyze firmware‑hardware interactions to develop features, identify issues, and recommend design improvements.
• Support products in the field through cross‑functional debugging spanning electrical failure analysis, system log reviews, and collaboration with the quality, manufacturing, and customer success teams.
• Support ongoing manufacturing of products through BOM improvements, alternate component selection and qualification, and debug of failed devices from the manufacturing line.

Required Education and Experience

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 1‑3 years of industry experience
• Strong technical foundation in circuit theory and analysis.
• Hands‑on experience designing, testing, and analyzing mixed‑signal circuitry.
• Familiarity using lab equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, etc.).

Preferred Experience and Qualifications

• Experience with PCB design tools (e.g., Altium Designer)
• Understanding of basic firmware principles (Embedded C)
• Expertise in a select area of electrical design (e.g., power electronics, analog circuitry, wireless communications).
• Bonus – Experience with scripting programming tools (e.g., Python)
• Bonus – Experience working on medical or health devices (e.g., in an FDA or ISO regulated environment)

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

NOTE: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties or functions to be performedby the incumbent. Personnel are required to follow any other job‑related instructions and to perform any other job‑related duties/functions requested by their supervisor.

Anticipated salary range: $100,000 - $130,000