Staff Electrical Engineer: Sensing & IoT Hardware

The Electric Plant; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

The Electric Plant in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to own our sensing and signal-acquisition platform. This role spans analog design, embedded systems, sensor validation, and field deployment.

You’ll scale from working devices to fleet management, evolving versions and new products. You’ll design from electrode interfaces to firmware, collaborate with scientists and ML engineers, and drive data quality and platform capabilities across the hardware stack.

Qualifications

• Strong analog and mixed-signal design experience.
• Hands-on schematic capture, PCB bring-up, and debugging.
• Experience with electrophysiology or sensor interfaces is a plus.
• Technical leadership across engineering disciplines.
• Embedded C/C++ on ESP32/ARM and RTOS basics.
• Ability to validate sensors against reference data.
• Clear, low-ego communication and collaboration with teams.
• Proof of shipping end-to-end hardware products.

Responsibilities

• Set the electrical architecture for the sensing platform across analog front end, embedded systems, power, and field deployments.
• Own the mixed-signal front end for plant electrophysiology — electrode interfaces, instrumentation amplifiers, filtering, ADCs, and noise-floor characterization.
• Design, review, and bring up schematics and PCBAs across the IoT hardware stack.
• Establish the validation methods and characterization protocols that determine whether a signal is trustworthy.
• Partner with science and foundation-model teams to improve signal quality and data trainability.
• Build custom lab and research hardware — sensors, test rigs, and instrumentation.
• Contribute to embedded firmware development in C/C++ across ESP32 and LoRa platforms.
• Drive technical decisions influencing hardware performance and dataset quality.
• Bring up every new build with hands-on testing using oscilloscopes and analyzers.

Skills

Analog design

Mixed-signal design

Schematic capture

PCB bring-up

Embedded firmware (C/C++)

RTOS experience

Hardware validation

Collaboration with scientists

Tools

Altium

KiCad

ESP32 toolchain

LoRaWAN hardware

Job description

The Electric Plant in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to own our sensing and signal-acquisition platform. This role spans analog design, embedded systems, sensor validation, and field deployment.

You’ll scale from working devices to fleet management, evolving versions and new products. You’ll design from electrode interfaces to firmware, collaborate with scientists and ML engineers, and drive data quality and platform capabilities across the hardware stack.