Electrical Engineer — Multidisciplinary Tech Consulting

Exponent Inc.; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Exponent, the premium engineering and scientific consulting firm, is seeking an Electrical Engineer for its Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Practice in Menlo Park, CA. You will join a multidisciplinary team addressing urgent, high-profile challenges across consumer electronics, medical devices, and energy infrastructure.

Define and shape your consulting practice based on your skills and interests.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or closely related field (Applied Physics or Optics).
• 1-2 years of relevant industry or postdoc experience preferred.
• Technical focus in electronics, semiconductors, circuits, electromagnetics, power electronics, or related cross-disciplinary areas.
• Experience building bench-top or product-level optical systems or medical devices strongly preferred.
• Experience with electrical test equipment, designing, validating and conducting electrical tests, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to convey technical conclusions to both technical and non-technical staff in engineering, business, and industry.
• Self-starter with strong fundamentals and first-principles thinking.
• Strong desire to help clients with their technical needs.
• presently legally authorized to work in the United States; no immigration sponsorship or processing required

Responsibilities

• Performing analysis/consulting on a variety of scientific/engineering problems in electrical/electronic components, products, and systems.
• Supporting project areas that include both reactive and proactive issues facing our clients: failure analysis, risk assessment, reliability, design, manufacturing, and others.
• Working as an individual contributor as well as in multidisciplinary teams.
• Researching and developing novel methodologies to answer cutting-edge scientific-and engineering-based problems.
• Participating at every stage of a project lifecycle: scoping and proposals; design of experiments; conducting and supervising tests; collecting and analyzing data; preparing reports; and presenting to clients.
• Pursuing business development opportunities

Skills

Electronics focus

Bench-top optical systems

Medical device experience

Electrical test equipment experience

Cross-functional communication

Self-starter

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or closely related field

Tools

Electrical test equipment

Job description

Exponent, the premium engineering and scientific consulting firm, is seeking an Electrical Engineer for its Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Practice in Menlo Park, CA. You will join a multidisciplinary team addressing urgent, high-profile challenges across consumer electronics, medical devices, and energy infrastructure.

Define and shape your consulting practice based on your skills and interests.