Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer – Wearable Neurotech

Sharper Sense; Newark, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k)

Commuter reimbursement

Hybrid work

Job summary

Sharper Sense in Newark, NJ, is seeking a hands-on Senior Electrical Product Engineer to own embedded hardware and firmware for our wearable neurostimulation products. You will design, debug, and transfer prototypes to manufacturing, collaborate with suppliers and contract manufacturers, and mentor junior engineers while maintaining strong documentation and revision control.

This role offers a competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and a hybrid work arrangement aligned with

Qualifications

• Degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field. Equivalent applied experience will be considered.
• 5+ years of hands-on embedded systems or physical-product development experience, including startup, doctoral, postdoctoral, or advanced research work.
• Strong experience with circuit and PCB design, microcontrollers, embedded C/C++, power systems, bench instrumentation, and system debugging.
• Experience owning substantial portions of a physical product through development, manufacturing transfer, release, use, and iteration.
• Direct experience with suppliers or contract manufacturers and the documentation and testing required for production.
• Ability to independently close complex engineering work and make informed tradeoffs across electronics, firmware, mechanics, reliability, manufacturing, cost, and schedule.
• Must work regularly in person in Newark, NJ.
• Must be a U.S. person, as defined by applicable U.S. export-control laws, and eligible to access Controlled Unclassified Information and export-controlled technical data required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Own embedded hardware and firmware projects from design through testing, manufacturing release, and product improvement.
• Design, bring up, and debug circuits, PCBs, microcontrollers, power systems, firmware, and hardware-software interfaces.
• Integrate electronics with flex circuits, batteries, enclosures, patch materials, fixtures, and packaging.
• Resolve system-level tradeoffs across performance, battery life, size, flexibility, reliability, usability, cost, and manufacturability.
• Transfer prototypes to production through DFM, manufacturing documentation, programming, inspection, and functional testing.
• Work directly with suppliers and contract manufacturers to resolve first-article, substitution, quality, and production issues.
• Develop reproducible engineering and production tests, investigate failures, and verify corrective actions.
• Review and mentor developing engineers while maintaining strong documentation and revision control.

Skills

Embedded systems

PCB design

Embedded C/C++

Power systems

System debugging

Manufacturing transfer

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Equivalent applied experience

Tools

PCB design tools

Microcontrollers

Firmware development tools

Job description

Sharper Sense in Newark, NJ, is seeking a hands-on Senior Electrical Product Engineer to own embedded hardware and firmware for our wearable neurostimulation products. You will design, debug, and transfer prototypes to manufacturing, collaborate with suppliers and contract manufacturers, and mentor junior engineers while maintaining strong documentation and revision control.

This role offers a competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and a hybrid work arrangement aligned with