Staff Systems Electrical Engineer- Hardware Development
$170,000–$185,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the electrical architecture across power stages, battery integration, control electronics, and sensing interfaces from concept through certification and production. Define system boundaries between hardware, firmware, thermal, and mechanical domains while managing platform reuse and cross-functional tradeoffs. Lead design reviews, drive DFMEA analysis, and establish standards for derating and component qualification. Act as the senior technical counterpart to JDM partners, guiding the transition of manufacturing and architecture work in-house. Build characterization tooling and support engineers through bench time and design reviews.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant experience (or 8+ with an MS) designing electronics that shipped at volume, including at least two products taken from concept through mass production, with direct ownership of EVT/DVT/PVT gates, build support, and production test yield at ramp
- Demonstrated ownership of system-level architecture: partitioning, interface definition, requirement flowdown
- Involvement in building to BOM cost and COGS targets, with experience contributing to cost-down cycles and second-sourcing
- Analog and mixed-signal depth: sensor interfaces, ADCs, signal conditioning, grounding and return paths
- Embedded software fluency and debugging judgment across domains: enough fluency to specify and review firmware, and the ability to judge whether a symptom is electrical, firmware, thermal, or mechanical
- Comfort using and building AI tools. We use LLMs and agentic tooling in daily engineering work — analysis, scripting, design review, documentation — and we're interested in people who build the tools they need
- Experience taking designs through EMC and product safety certification (UL, IEC, FCC, or similar)
- Experience with design for safety and compliance, including mains isolation, creepage/clearance, and implementation of safety standards like UL/IEC 60730
- Clear technical communication, in writing and in person. The ability to net out complicated technical topics for internal and external stakeholders at all levels of technical comprehension
Desired Qualifications
- Battery systems, BMS, or energy storage integration experience
- Familiarity with battery safety/compliance standards (e.g., UL 9540A, UL 1973, IEC 62133)
- Power electronics: switch-mode converters, resonant inverters, magnetics
- Induction heating, motor drive, or another high-power switching application
- Platform or product-family architecture, where designs had to serve more than one product
- Consumer appliance experience, including UL 858 or equivalent
- Python and SCPI scripting for characterization and test automation
- Experience building an in-house hardware capability that had previously been outsourced
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