Hands-on Hardware Validation Engineer for PCBAs

Insight Global; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global’s client in San Mateo, CA is seeking a hands-on Hardware Electrical Engineer to support the validation, sustaining, and continuous improvement of complex electrical systems. This role focuses 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

Qualifications

• Strong experience with electrical validation, testing, troubleshooting, and failure analysis.
• Proven ability to diagnose root cause of PCBA and system-level electrical failures.
• Strong understanding of analog, digital, power-management, and mixed-signal circuitry.
• Experience reading electrical schematics and using them to troubleshoot hardware.
• Hands-on soldering, component rework, board probing, and bench-level debugging.
• Proficiency with electrical lab equipment including oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and bench power supplies.
• Ability to own investigations from initial failure to corrective action and validation.
• Strong problem-solving, technical ownership, and cross-functional communication skills.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Electrical validation

Root cause analysis

PCB troubleshooting

Analog & digital circuits

Power-management circuitry

Schematics reading

Bench debugging

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Oscilloscopes

DMMs

Logic analyzers

Power analyzers

Bench power supplies

Soldering equipment

Job description

Insight Global’s client in San Mateo, CA is seeking a hands-on Hardware Electrical Engineer to support the validation, sustaining, and continuous improvement of complex electrical systems. This role focuses 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