This position allows for 3 days per week remote / work from home.
Salary: $100,000 - 130,000/year
We are seeking a detail-oriented and self-motivated Electrical Design Engineer with around 3 years of hands-on experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will play a key part in the complete hardware development lifecycle—from initial architectural concepts and schematic capture to complex PCB layout, prototyping, and lab bring-up. The ideal candidate possesses strong core electrical engineering fundamentals, demonstrated proficiency with Altium Designer, and a track record of taking multi-layer board designs from concept through successful production.
Responsibilities:
Design and layout complex, multi-layer printed circuit boards (PCBs) using Altium Designer, ensuring compliance with signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), and EMC/EMI best practices. Select optimal active/passive components, microcontrollers, power management ICs, and connectors. Create and maintain Altium schematic symbol and PCB footprint libraries adhering to IPC standards. Board bring-up, debugging, testing, and validation of prototype hardware in the lab using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and multimeter equipment. Collaborate with external PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers (CMs) to produce manufacturing deliverables (Gerbers, ODB++, IPC-2581, BOMs, assembly drawings) and resolve fabrication queries. Design low-power DC-DC converters, linear regulators, mixed-signal circuits, and high-speed digital interfaces (e.g., SPI, I2C, UART, USB, Ethernet, CAN). Lead and participate in peer design reviews (schematic and PCB layout). Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, test plans, and engineering change orders (ECOs).
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Computer Engineering (BSCE), or a related technical field. Minimum 3 years of professional experience in hardware development and PCB design. Demonstrated proficiency with Altium Designer (schematic capture, PCB layout, layer stackup configuration, rules/constraints, and manufacturing output generation). Hands-on experience with lab equipment for board debugging, signal validation, and surface-mount soldering/rework (SMD components down to 0402/0201 packages). Strong understanding of standard embedded communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, USB, CAN).
