Electrical Engineering Lead

moss robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

moss.inc is hiring an Electrical Engineering Lead to own the electrical direction across all sensor products. You will oversee architecture, PCB design, bring-up, firmware, and field testing in a fast-moving hardware team that ships globally.

You will mentor interns and engineers, collaborate with mechanical and robotics teams, and travel to customer sites and manufacturing partners as needed.

Qualifications

• Shipped hardware product from concept to production; can explain failure causes and fixes.
• Designed RF boards with impedance matching, GNSS, and RF front ends.
• Strong systems architecture covering power input to compute and sensors.
• Deep PCB design: schematics, high-speed routing, power integrity, grounding strategy.
• Power systems design: DC-DC regulation, battery integration, EMI considerations.
• Experience with high-speed/mixed-signal: USB, Ethernet, MIPI/CSI, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C.
• Electronics for harsh outdoor environments: sealing, IP rating, vibration, thermal.
• Firmware proficiency in C/C++ for board bring-up and peripherals.
• Experience integrating autonomous hardware (LiDAR, cameras, GPS, IMUs, Jetson)
• Production with overseas contract manufacturers; lead yield and failure analysis.
• Experience leading engineers or mentoring interns.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and manufacturing partners.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical architecture decisions and PCB layout for moss products.
• Take current sensor kit through production: sourcing, DFM, production test, and field repairs.
• Design next sensor kit revision and bring to production.
• Validate hardware against IP, vibration, thermal, and fatigue; fix failures.
• Write bring-up and board-level firmware in C/C++.
• Collaborate with mechanical, perception, and robotics teams to fit hardware and software.
• Manage relationships with manufacturing partners and suppliers in US and overseas.
• Lead design reviews with suppliers and partners.
• Test hardware with customers in real deployments.
• Mentor interns and junior electrical engineers.

Skills

PCB design

RF design

Systems architecture

Power electronics

High-speed/mixed-signal

Firmware (C/C++)

Hardware bring-up

Manufacturing with contract makers

Mentoring interns

Customer-site travel

Job description

About Us

At moss.inc, we are making the physical world searchable. Our sensor kits mount to vehicles our customers already drive, and turn every drive into a measured 3D record of their site, across agriculture, construction, and energy. Our AI models then parse through those 3D maps and decipher important information for each of our customers. We started with tree farms, where a single field holds millions of plants no human has ever fully inventoried.

We're a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, messy, on-the-ground problems today, while working toward a future where AI agents understand the physical world.

If our mission aligns with how you work and think, we'd love to learn more about you.

The Role

Join us as our Electrical Engineering Lead, a full-time role on a team of seven.

Our current product is a sensor kit that combines LiDARs, cameras, GPS, and IMUs with onboard compute. It mounts on customer vehicles, runs in the field every day, and ships to paying customers worldwide. We move fast by iterating it rapidly, and our first project is its next revision. As we expand, we will build many new products and start prototyping for brand new industries. You will lead the electrical work on all of them.

Here, you will take each design through the full cycle: architecture and PCB design, bring-up and debug, firmware, enclosures and mounting with mechanical engineering, sourcing and manufacturing partners, and field testing with customers. You will own the technical direction of electrical engineering at moss, and you will mentor the interns and full-time engineers who work alongside you.

Minimum Requirements

• Shipped at least one hardware product from concept to production, and can explain what broke along the way and how you fixed it

• Designed RF boards (antenna integration, impedance matching, GNSS and radio front ends, RF layout and test)

• Strong systems architecture capability (able to define the full electrical stack from power input to compute and sensors)

• Deep PCB design experience (schematics, high-speed routing, power integrity, grounding strategy)

• Experience designing power systems (DC-DC regulation, battery integration, power budgeting, protection, EMI considerations)

• Experience with high-speed and mixed-signal design (USB, Ethernet, MIPI/CSI, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C)

• Experience designing electronics for harsh outdoor environments (sealing and IP rating, vibration, thermal, EMI)

• Comfortable making first-principles engineering trade-offs, even with partial information

• Firmware proficiency (C/C++) for board bring-up, microcontrollers, and peripheral integration

• Strong experience integrating autonomous system hardware (LiDAR, cameras, GPS, IMUs, Jetson or similar compute platforms)

• Experience running production with contract manufacturers, including overseas (DFM reviews, sourcing, production test strategy, yield and failure analysis)

• Experience leading other engineers or mentoring interns

• Able to travel to customer sites and manufacturing partners

What You'll Do

• Own electrical architecture decisions, component selection, and PCB layout for every moss product

• Take the current sensor kit through production: sourcing, DFM, production test, failure analysis, and field repairs

• Design the next revision of the sensor kit and bring it to production

• Validate hardware against IP, vibration, thermal, and fatigue failures, and fix what fails

• Write bring-up and board-level firmware in C/C++

• Work with mechanical, perception, and robotics engineers on how hardware and software fit together

• Own relationships with manufacturing partners and component suppliers, in the US and overseas

• Lead design reviews internally and externally with suppliers and partners

• Test hardware with customers in real-world deployments

• Mentor interns and future electrical engineers