Staff Electrical Engineer, Hardware for Restaurant Tech

Toast; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast’s Hardware team designs and develops world-class hardware devices in conjunction with JDM & ODM partners. We focus on Android devices, long-term reliability, and cost-conscious design to deliver restaurant-grade hardware solutions that keep Toast customers productive.

The Staff Electrical Engineer will work with Product Management, Architecture, Industrial Design, and executives to define new products, validate form factors, and ensure performance targets across size, weight, and cost

Qualifications

• BS/ME or equivalent practical experience in Electrical Engineering.
• 7+ years designing, implementing, debugging and characterizing electrical systems for current/future products.
• Prototype devices with product design teams to validate form factors/features.
• Optimize integration of electrical systems for size, performance and cost.
• Plan and lead validation including functional verification, RF testing, signal characterization, power modeling and coexistence testing.
• Collaborate with Mechanical, Layout, Thermal and SI teams to deliver robust hardware.

Responsibilities

• Lay groundwork for future hardware products as part of the Hardware Team.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture and leadership on new product definitions.
• Integrate electrical systems across devices to meet use cases, thickness, weight and cost targets.
• Discuss engineering tradeoffs across antennas, cameras, sensors, displays and batteries.
• Partner with global Product Engineering teams to bring future products to market and apply lessons learned.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance development workflow, improve velocity and drive innovation.

Skills

PCB layout & schematic

WLAN & Bluetooth

LTE connectivity

Soldering & rework

Antennas, sensors & power

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence

Allegro

Job description

Toast’s Hardware team designs and develops world-class hardware devices in conjunction with JDM & ODM partners. We focus on Android devices, long-term reliability, and cost-conscious design to deliver restaurant-grade hardware solutions that keep Toast customers productive.

The Staff Electrical Engineer will work with Product Management, Architecture, Industrial Design, and executives to define new products, validate form factors, and ensure performance targets across size, weight, and cost