Founding Electrical Engineer

engineeringjobs.net, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in San Francisco

Six-day work schedule

Job summary

engineeringjobs.net, Inc. is seeking a senior electrical engineer to design, prototype, bring up, and debug custom circuit boards and electrical systems for precision autonomous machines, including sensing, actuation, measurement, and control.

You will build test fixtures, develop an agentic harness for PCB fabrication, and own subsystems from architecture through working implementations, working on-site in San Francisco on a demanding six-day schedule.

Qualifications

• Senior-level electrical engineering experience.
• Hands-on circuit board design and debugging skills.
• Experience at a hardware-shipping company.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, bring up, and debug custom circuit boards and electrical systems for precision autonomous machines.
• Build test fixtures and instrumentation for validation.
• Own subsystems from architecture through working implementations, including firmware or software as needed.

Skills

Circuit Design

Debugging

Firmware Development

Hardware Testing

Systems Debugging

Robot Systems

Motion Control

Electrical Architecture

Sensing & Actuation

On-site Work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscope

PCB Design Software

Signal Generators

Logic Analyzers

Job description

Design, prototype, bring up, and debug custom circuit boards and electrical systems for precision autonomous machines, including sensing, actuation, measurement, and control. Build test fixtures and instrumentation, develop an agentic harness for the PCB fabrication machine, and own subsystems from architecture and schematics through working implementations.

Requirements

Requires senior-level electrical engineering experience, hands-on circuit board design and debugging, and a track record at a company that ships real hardware. Candidates should be skilled with lab instruments, understand mechanical and systems interactions, be able to write firmware or software, and work on-site in San Francisco on a demanding six-day schedule; a relevant degree or equivalent experience is expected.

Key Skills

Electrical Engineering, Circuit Design, Circuit Board Bring-Up And Debugging, Electronics, Sensing And Actuation, Measurement And Control, Test Fixture Design, Instrumentation, Firmware Development, Hardware Testing, Motion Control, Systems Debugging, Robotics, Mechanical Systems, Electrical Architecture