Senior Electrical Hardware Architect for Precision Sensors

FUTEK; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FUTEK is a leading manufacturer of precision sensor technology, specializing in load cells, torque sensors, and measurement solutions used across industries such as aerospace, medical, robotics, and manufacturing. The Lead Electrical Hardware & Systems Engineer will own the architecture, design, validation, and release of electrical hardware for FUTEK products.

This senior role requires high independence, guiding hardware direction across firmware, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or closely related field).
• 10+ years of professional experience developing electrical hardware, embedded hardware, or mixed-signal electronics for instrumentation or sensor products.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical hardware architecture, schematic design, PCB design oversight, validation, and release activities for precision sensor, instrumentation, and embedded measurement platforms.
• Develop analog, mixed-signal, and digital circuits for signal conditioning, bridge/sensor interfaces, excitation, data acquisition, ADC/DAC integration, power management, protection, and communication interfaces.
• Define hardware requirements, electrical interfaces, design constraints, PCB stackups, component-selection strategy, BOM structure, DFM/DFT, reliability considerations, and system-level tradeoffs in collaboration with firmware, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, quality, and product stakeholders.
• Create and review schematics, PCB layouts, component placement, routing, fabrication/assembly notes, calculations, simulations, manufacturing packages, ECOs, and release documentation using Altium Designer and controlled engineering workflows.
• Lead board bring-up, hardware validation, characterization, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions using schematics, oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, thermal tools, and other lab equipment.
• Collaborate with firmware and software engineers to support front end, sampling, sensor calibration, low-level interfaces, board-support requirements, diagnostics, production programming, and hardware/firmware integration.
• Support embedded and industrial interface hardware including CAN, Ethernet, USB, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, UART, SPI, I2C, IO-Link, and other communication or gateway-related design requirements.
• Develop and execute hardware verification, design-review, release-readiness, manufacturing-test, and production-support plans, including test procedures, test reports, design documentation, and technical risk assessments.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, design-review leadership, and project/task coordination for engineers and cross-functional contributors while maintaining direct ownership of critical hardware deliverables.

Skills

Analog design

Mixed-signal design

PCB layout

Schematic capture

Hardware validation

EMC/ESD

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

FUTEK is a leading manufacturer of precision sensor technology, specializing in load cells, torque sensors, and measurement solutions used across industries such as aerospace, medical, robotics, and manufacturing. The Lead Electrical Hardware & Systems Engineer will own the architecture, design, validation, and release of electrical hardware for FUTEK products.

This senior role requires high independence, guiding hardware direction across firmware, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing,