Senior Electrical Engineer

AgZen; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6 weeks PTO

401(k) with employer matching

Health insurance

Equity

Job summary

AgZen in the Boston area is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to own electrical systems powering RealCoverage. You will drive electrical design from R&D through field deployment, including schematics, PCB layouts, and hardware bring-up for rugged agricultural hardware.

You'll work with mechanical, firmware, and field teams to ensure reliable performance in real-world environments. In-person role based in Somerville, MA with strong ownership requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 6+ years in electrical design with a track record of delivering/high-volume products or working in research/prototyping environments.
• Ability to interpret and create electrical schematics, design PCB layouts, and perform hardware bring-up and debug.
• Experience with custom PCB design from schematic entry to fabrication, assembly, testing, and production.
• Design experience with motors, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters/converters, and edge power delivery, including battery-powered systems.
• Proven ability to own hardware problems end-to-end, including field diagnostics and fixes.
• Familiarity with embedded systems and firmware constraints affecting electrical design decisions.
• Experience working on high-reliability products where field failures matter.
• Comfort working in small teams with broad ownership and fast pace.
• Experience working with vendors/contractors and managing relationships.

Responsibilities

• Engage in electrical system development through all stages from R&D to field use, defining requirements and owning schematic design at the subsystem level.
• Productize concepts and designs including manufacturability, vendor qualification, cost management, and translating docs to contract manufacturers.
• Engineer solutions to integrate with diverse sprayers and agricultural machinery for retrofitting in the field.
• Build firmware validation tooling and processes to support mass production.
• Collaborate across hardware, software and field ops to incorporate feedback and respond to priorities.
• Engineer fault-tolerant systems with graceful failure recovery.
• Develop documentation for architecture, schematics and layouts.
• Work with mechanical/product engineers to build enclosures and actuation systems.
• Support experiments and testing on agricultural sprayers to validate reliability in real environments.
• Enhance engineering documentation including design reviews, testing, code, interfaces and versioning.

Skills

Electrical design

Schematic/layout

PCB design

Altium

KiCad

Motor power electronics

Hardware bring-up

Embedded systems

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

About AgZen:

AgZen is a fast-growing precision agriculture company headquartered in Somerville, MA, built on MIT research and focused on one problem: making crop spraying more efficient. Our flagship product, RealCoverage, is the world's first system that measures and controls droplet coverage at the leaf level, giving growers real-time visibility into spray performance and cutting chemical and water use by up to 50% without sacrificing yield.

We are a small, technically deep team working at the intersection of fluid mechanics, computer vision, AI, and real agricultural environments. If you want to build technology with measurable impact on how the world grows food, this is the place to do it.

About the Role:

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will be a key contributor to AgZen's hardware portfolio, owning the design, development, and field performance of the electrical systems that power RealCoverage. This role sits at the intersection of power electronics, embedded hardware, and mechanical actuation in a demanding real-world environment. We are looking for someone who is technically strong, ownership-driven, and energized by the challenge of making hardware work reliably in the field, not just in the lab.

This role is located in Somerville, MA (Boston area) with work required to be in-person.

What You’ll Do

• Engage in electrical system development through all stages (R&D, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, installation, and on field use) by defining requirements, specifying parts, and owning schematic design and layout at the subsystem level
• Productize concepts and engineering designs – including implementation, manufacturability, vendor qualification, cost management, and translating documents and instructions to contract manufacturers
• Engineer solutions that enable our systems to integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of commercial sprayers and agricultural machinery, addressing the unique challenges of retrofitting in the field
• Build in-depth firmware validation tooling and processes to support mass production of AgZen products
• Collaborate across hardware, software and field operations teams to integrate feedback and rapidly respond to customer needs and business priorities when required
• Integrate feedback and rapidly respond to customer needs and business priorities when required
• Engineer fault-tolerant systems with graceful failure recovery
• Develop clear documentation for architectural decisions, schematics, and physical layouts
• Work closely with mechanical and product engineers to build enclosures and actuation systems
• Support critical experiments and real-world testing on agricultural sprayers, helping validate designs and ensure the product performs reliably in operational environments
• Enhance engineering documentation including design reviews, testing, code, architecture, interfaces, and versioning

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in electrical design, with a demonstrated track record of delivering/shipping high-volume products and/or working in research, prototyping, or early-stage development environments
• Proficiency in interpreting and creating electrical schematics, designing physical layouts (e.g., PCBs or panel/plant layouts), and/or performing hardware/system bring‑up and debug at the lab or field level
• Custom PCB design experience (Ex: on Altium, KiCad, etc.) from schematic entry and board layout through fabrication, assembly, testing, iteration, production and manufacturing
• Design experience with motors, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters / converters, and power electronics, including battery-powered systems and efficient power delivery at the edge
• Demonstrated ability to own hardware problems end-to-end, including diagnosing failures in the field and driving fixes through to resolution
• Familiarity with embedded systems and the firmware constraints that affect electrical design decisions
• Experience working on products that require high reliability at scale, where field failures have real operational consequences
• Comfort working on small teams where the scope of ownership is broad and the pace is fast
• Strong embedded hardware and software debugging instincts and comfort working with hardware that is partially functional or failing in non-obvious ways
• Experience working with vendors, contractors and managing the working relationship between vendors and full-time employees

Preferred:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Experience with agricultural, industrial, or other ruggedized hardware designed to operate in harsh environments
• Experience developing manufacturing tests for high-volume consumer products
• Ability to architect and implement device drivers across multiple protocols
• Proficiency in PCB assembly and SMD soldering
• Harness design and fabrication experience
• Working knowledge of standard communication buses and protocols (CAN, I2C, SPI, RS485)
• Embedded hardware and software debugging skills. Familiar with test/debug tools such as JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and signal generators.
• Familiarity with ISOBUS networks

What We Offer:

The opportunity to make an immediate and visible impact in a fast-growing company, competitive salary, early-employee equity, 401(k) with employer matching, 6 weeks of PTO, paid holidays and health insurance.