Electrical Engineer: Connected Sensors & Field Deployment

Empathy Talent; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid position (SF Bay Area)

Equity

Job summary

Empathy Talent is partnering with an early-stage technology company developing connected sensing and monitoring products for critical power and industrial equipment. The client is moving from validated technology into broader field deployment and commercialization, building hardware and connected systems designed to improve how electrical assets are monitored and maintained.

This is an opportunity to join at an early stage and work across product development, field engineering, and customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 0-3 years of relevant industry, research, internship, or project experience.
• Strong foundation in electrical engineering, embedded systems, instrumentation, or related product development.
• Hands-on experience integrating, testing, and debugging sensors, embedded hardware, networking, and connected systems.
• Willingness to travel approximately 20-30% for customer deployments and field testing.

Responsibilities

• Support integration, bring-up, testing, validation, and troubleshooting of sensors, embedded hardware, and connected systems.
• Assemble, configure, and validate pilot and early-production systems while helping improve build and test processes.
• Work across hardware, firmware, software, and data systems to troubleshoot integration issues and improve product performance.
• Deploy and commission systems at utility, energy, data center, manufacturing, and other industrial sites.
• Configure field devices, networking, connectivity, and supporting data infrastructure.
• Perform system testing, signal validation, diagnostics, and root-cause analysis during development and field deployment.
• Serve as a technical point of contact during customer installation, onboarding, commissioning, and post-deployment support.
• Translate field results and customer feedback into product, reliability, and deployment improvements.
• Help establish repeatable testing, deployment, documentation, and quality processes as the product scales.

Skills

Electrical engineering basics

Embedded systems

Sensors & hardware

Diagnostics & troubleshooting

Customer interaction

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Python

Test automation

MQTT

Modbus

Job description

Empathy Talent is partnering with an early-stage technology company developing connected sensing and monitoring products for critical power and industrial equipment. The client is moving from validated technology into broader field deployment and commercialization, building hardware and connected systems designed to improve how electrical assets are monitored and maintained.

This is an opportunity to join at an early stage and work across product development, field engineering, and customer