Hands-on Electrical Engineer: PCBAs & 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 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.