Principal/Senior Electrical Engineer

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

Job summary

Unlimit Ventures is seeking a Principal/Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electronics and embedded systems across multiple concurrent programs, from architecture to validation. You will distill complex problems into workable systems and guide cross-functional teams through full-cycle product development.

The role emphasizes technical mentorship, risk identification, and delivering robust electrical designs for market-ready products, with opportunities to accelerate your career within the

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of experience developing electrical and embedded systems.
• Strong hardware design experience at system and component levels.
• Experience with PLCs/microcontrollers; programming and debugging.
• PCB design experience and manufacturing-ready schematics (Altium).
• Experience designing automotive grade power and data wiring harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical advisor on multiple concurrent development programs and mentor engineers.
• Define priorities, identify technical risk and guide diverse teams in electronics and embedded systems development.
• Develop electronics architectures from board to system level for complex electromechanical systems.
• Ensure cross-functional teams are aligned on product requirements (mechanical, electrical, software, quality, regulatory).
• Design electrical systems meeting use-case, technical, operational, manufacturing, cost and schedule requirements.
• Review and guide 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 PCBs.
• Facilitate board bring-up, test, and debug of new hardware.
• Develop electrical system budgets including estimating labor, material, and costs.
• Participate in design reviews and design FMEA analyses.

Skills

Hardware design

PLC/microcontroller programming

System-level design

Project mentoring

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

Altium

Job description

As a Principal/Senior Electrical Engineer at Unlimit Ventures, you will apply your breadth of knowledge and engineering leaderships to a variety of new products as they are prepared for market launch. You will distill complex problems into workable electrical-mechanical systems and guide execution of diverse teams in full-cycle product development. Dedication and determination as a member of the Unlimit Ventures team results in the opportunity to accelerate your career within the new ventures being launched and experience developing many different products you will be proud of for years to come.

Job Type: Full-Time or Contract

Values

• Prudent optimism …glass-half-full, with a dose of caution to challenge our assumptions.
• Intrinsic motivation …driven by autonomy, goal clarity and regular feedback.
• Commit to desired outcomes …define desired outcomes and achieve them vigorously

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.

Basic 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.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated full-cycle experience (early stage ideation, to production, to post launch development) of multiple hardware products.
• Experience successfully launching products in one or more of the following industries: industrial robotics & automation, clean/renewable technologies, health & wellness technologies.
• Recognized thought leadership and continuous improvement as demonstrated by trade association activity, completed training programs and/or other distinctions.

Unlimit Ventures is a venture studio that formulates, de-risks and launches new companies. We are a diverse team of innovators, builders and entrepreneurs, developing advanced technologies for practical use in robotics & automation, climate impact, and health & wellness… to name a few.