Senior Electrical Engineer, Sustaining & Reliability

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Job summary

Firestorm in San Diego is seeking a Sustaining Electrical Engineer to own released electrical hardware throughout the product lifecycle, spanning PCB and system-level design, production scaling, field support, and continuous improvement. This role emphasizes keeping products reliable, manufacturable, testable, serviceable, and cost-effective as they scale in the field.

It may be filled at the Senior or Staff level based on experience and demonstrated ownership across electronics hardware

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of professional experience developing or sustaining complex electrical hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement electrical changes across schematics, PCBAs, power distribution, wiring, interfaces, and supporting hardware.
• Own electrical sustainment of released products from production ramp through field support and end-of-life.
• Troubleshoot PCBAs, electronic assemblies, wiring, power systems, and integrated hardware down to the component level.
• Drive root-cause investigations for production, test, and field failures and implement corrective actions.
• Own ECR/ECO execution and maintain released design documentation and configuration control.
• Define and execute verification, regression, and reliability testing for sustaining changes and product improvements.
• Support production and NPI transitions by addressing test failures, yield issues, and manufacturability challenges.
• Evaluate component substitutions and supplier-driven changes, owning qualification of alternate parts.

Skills

Electrical debugging

Lab testing skills

PLM documentation

DFM/DFT knowledge

Power electronics

Cross-functional comms

Education

Bachelors in EE

Tools

PLM systems

Job description

Firestorm in San Diego is seeking a Sustaining Electrical Engineer to own released electrical hardware throughout the product lifecycle, spanning PCB and system-level design, production scaling, field support, and continuous improvement. This role emphasizes keeping products reliable, manufacturable, testable, serviceable, and cost-effective as they scale in the field.

It may be filled at the Senior or Staff level based on experience and demonstrated ownership across electronics hardware