Electrical Engineer (Sustaining/Validation)

Insight Global; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global's client is seeking a hands-on Electrical Engineer to support validation, sustaining, and continuous improvement of complex electrical systems. The role focuses on troubleshooting, failure analysis, testing, and root-cause investigation of PCBAs and system-level hardware.

The ideal candidate will work at the bench, perform soldering, probing, and debugging, and independently drive corrective actions across design, manufacturing, and quality teams to improve reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on electrical troubleshooting and failure analysis of PCBAs and system hardware.
• Ability to identify root causes of electrical failures and drive corrective actions.
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuits, power management, and mixed-signal systems.
• Experience reading and troubleshooting from electrical schematics.
• Soldering, rework, probing, and hardware debugging with lab equipment.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on electrical troubleshooting and failure analysis of PCBAs and system-level hardware.
• Independently identify root cause of electrical failures and drive corrective action and validation.
• Troubleshoot analog, digital, power, and mixed-signal circuits.
• Perform soldering, component rework, probing, and bench-level debugging.
• Analyze customer returns, RMAs, production failures, and field failures.
• Determine whether failures relate to design, components, manufacturing, or system integration.
• Develop and execute electrical validation and test plans.
• Validate components and subsystems to improve product quality and reliability.
• Drive electrical changes related to reliability, manufacturing, and supply-chain issues.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret test and field data.
• Partner cross-functionally with design, manufacturing, quality, and other engineering teams.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

PCBAs

Soldering

Bench testing

Schematic reading

Lab equipment

Cross-functional communication

Power management

Analog/digital/mixed-signal

Job description

Insight Global's Client is seeking a hands-on Electrical Engineer to support the validation, sustaining, and continuous improvement of complex electrical systems. This position will focus heavily on electrical troubleshooting, failure analysis, testing, and root cause investigation of PCBAs and system-level hardware. The ideal candidate has strong electrical engineering fundamentals and can independently troubleshoot complex hardware issues from initial failure through root cause, corrective action, and validation. This role requires someone who is comfortable working directly at the bench and enjoys soldering, probing boards, running tests, analyzing failures, and solving problems hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on electrical troubleshooting and failure analysis of PCBAs and system-level hardware
• Independently identify root cause of electrical failures and drive issues through corrective action and validation
• Troubleshoot analog, digital, power, and mixed-signal circuits
• Perform soldering, component rework, probing, and bench-level debugging
• Analyze customer returns, RMAs, production failures, and field failures
• Determine whether failures are related to design, components, manufacturing processes, or system integration
• Develop and execute electrical validation and test plans
• Validate components and subsystems to improve product quality and reliability
• Drive electrical component and PCB changes related to reliability, manufacturing, and supply-chain issues
• Collect, analyze, and interpret test and field data
• Partner cross-functionally with design, manufacturing, quality, and other engineering teams

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong electrical validation, test, and failure analysis experience
• Proven ability to independently root cause PCBA and system-level electrical failures
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuits, power management, and mixed-signal systems
• Experience reading and troubleshooting from electrical schematics
• Hands-on experience with soldering, rework, board probing, and hardware debugging
• Experience using lab equipment including:
• DMMs
• Logic analyzers
• Power analyzers
• Power supplies
• Demonstrated experience personally owning technical investigations, rather than solely supporting troubleshooting led by other engineers
• Strong ownership, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with high-speed electrical interfaces
• Experience with MIPI CSI, D-PHY, or C-PHY
• Experience troubleshooting power supplies and power-management circuitry
• Experience analyzing field, production, or reliability data
• Experience supporting hardware through mass production and post-production sustaining
• Bash scripting or other test automation experience
• Ability to obtain FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment