Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer — Sensors & Controls

GRAM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

Health coverage

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

GRAM in San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer, Embedded Hardware to own low-voltage electrical architecture and embedded hardware interfacing sensors, compute, and control. The role emphasizes mixed-signal design, board bring-up, EMI/EMC considerations, and reliability testing across environments.

Success means released hardware with validated signal integrity and timing, and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with embedded hardware design spanning sensors, compute, and control interfaces.
• Experience designing mixed-signal and digital interfaces for sensors, clocks, converters, and power sequencing.

Responsibilities

• Translate sensing, compute, communications, calibration, diagnostic, environmental, and fault requirements into electrical architectures, interface specifications, signal budgets, and verification plans.
• Define and verify electrical interfaces for cameras, inertial sensors, encoders, force or torque sensors, ranging sensors, embedded compute, timing devices, and communication components against measured system requirements.
• Design and release mixed-signal, digital, sensor-interface, communication, power-sequencing, and controller-support circuitry with controlled schematics, PCB layouts, bills of material, and revision history.
• Own connector selection, pinouts, cable and harness drawings, shielding, grounding, separation, derating, strain relief, service loops, continuity requirements, and electrical acceptance criteria.
• Bring up boards, sensors, compute, and networks using oscilloscopes, logic and bus analyzers, spectrum or network instrumentation, programmable supplies, thermal measurements, and automated acquisition.
• Characterize signal integrity, noise, clock and time-distribution behavior, communication margin, startup and brownout behavior, grounding, emissions susceptibility, and injected faults on representative assemblies.
• Carry embedded hardware through design review, supplier fabrication, inspection, assembly, programming support, calibration, machine integration, manufacturing test, nonconformance closure, and verified release.
• Released and brought up embedded electronics for a robot, vehicle, instrument, industrial machine, or comparable electromechanical product using controlled schematics, PCB layouts, bills of material, and revisions.
• Designed mixed-signal or digital interfaces involving sensors, embedded compute, clocks, converters, communication physical layers, protection, filtering, and power sequencing.
• Produced connector pinouts and cable or harness documentation, then verified continuity, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, communication margin, or electromagnetic performance on assembled hardware.
• Closed an electrical integration failure by reproducing it with bench instrumentation, identifying the physical or circuit-level root cause, releasing a correction, and demonstrating the fix through repeated test.

Skills

Robotics sensors

CAN

EtherCAT

Ethernet

MIPI

USB

LVDS

Precision analog acquisition

Distributed time synchronization

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field

Job description

GRAM in San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer, Embedded Hardware to own low-voltage electrical architecture and embedded hardware interfacing sensors, compute, and control. The role emphasizes mixed-signal design, board bring-up, EMI/EMC considerations, and reliability testing across environments.

Success means released hardware with validated signal integrity and timing, and collaboration across teams.