Principal Electrical Engineer, Embedded Systems Leader

Unlimit Ventures; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Unlimit Ventures is seeking a Staff/Principal Electrical Engineer to lead hardware and embedded systems development across multiple programs. You will distill complex problems into workable electrical-mechanical solutions and guide cross-functional teams from concept through market readiness.

The role emphasizes mentorship, architecture definition, and risk-driven design across mechanical, electrical, software, and quality disciplines.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering and/or other relevant educational background.
• 12+ years of applied experience successfully developing electrical and embedded systems.
• In-depth hardware design experience with both system-level and component-level development.
• Experience with PLCs/microcontrollers; programming, architecture, debugging.
• Experience designing custom PCB's (in Altium or equivalent) and preparing schematics for manufacturing.
• Experience designing automotive grade power & communication wire harnesses.
• Demonstrated ability to foresee and identify technical risk, and engineering mindset of addressing risks early.
• Demonstrated experience with troubleshooting of sophisticated systems including circuit issues, EMI/EMC/ESD mitigation.
• Experience managing projects, mentoring other engineers, and interfacing with technical customers.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills to levels above, below and in-line.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical advisor on multiple concurrent development programs and provide mentorship to other engineers.
• Define priorities, identify technical risk and guide diverse technical teams in the execution of electronics and embedded systems development.
• Develop electronics architectures from board to system level for sophisticated electrical-mechanical systems.
• Ensure diverse engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software, quality, regulatory) are aligned and operating towards clear product requirements.
• Design electrical systems that meet use-case, technical, operational, manufacturing, cost and schedule requirements.
• Review and guide key component selection including sensors, actuators, controllers.
• Develop test plans and lead hardware integration, testing, debug and validation.
• Execute mixed/analog, power electronics, and digital circuit design and layout of printed circuit boards.
• Facilitate board bring-up, test, and debug of newly designed electrical hardware.
• Develop electrical system budgets including estimating labor, material, and any other relevant costs.
• Participate in design reviews and design FMEA analysis.

Skills

Plcs/microcontrollers

Programming

PCB design (Altium)

EMI/EMC/ESD mitigation

Project mentoring

Technical communication

Team leadership

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

Altium

Job description

Unlimit Ventures is seeking a Staff/Principal Electrical Engineer to lead hardware and embedded systems development across multiple programs. You will distill complex problems into workable electrical-mechanical solutions and guide cross-functional teams from concept through market readiness.

The role emphasizes mentorship, architecture definition, and risk-driven design across mechanical, electrical, software, and quality disciplines.