Electrical Design Engineer

About The Role

As an Electrical Design Engineer, you will own the electrical hardware for our chip fabrication machines end-to-end. You will identify problems, prototype solutions, productionize your prototypes, and deliver finished solutions that revolutionize IC manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Own the clean-sheet design of PCBAs and electrical systems for our machines, driving the end-to-end process including schematic capture, layout, bringup, testing, integration, and documentation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with software, mechanical, and process teams to gather system requirements, performing independent investigations to define targets where requirements are ambiguous or missing.
• Investigate optimal design approaches and perform detailed analysis and simulations to evaluate electrical designs, strategically weighing off-the-shelf components against custom solutions.
• Break down complex hardware challenges into actionable execution plans, earning trust through consistent follow-through from prototype to small-scale production.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience owning electrical hardware design end-to-end, successfully taking systems from initial concept through to production.
• Demonstrated proficiency in analog and digital circuit design, mixed-signal design, and hands-on testing (e.g., using multimeters and oscilloscopes).
• Experience with PCB design and simulation tools (Altium, KiCad, LTSpice).
• A track record of taking broad ownership of electrical systems, with the ability to execute work autonomously and adapt quickly in a hands-on, fast-paced maker environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• High-speed digital design or low-noise analog frontend design experience.
• Experience working with RF plasmas, pulsed lasers, or semiconductor processing equipment.
• Digitally controlled switching power supply or novel power supply architecture implementation.
• Knowledge of control theory (control loop design, stability analysis) or low-voltage DC inverter design.
• FPGA or firmware development experience.
• Advanced SMT precision rework abilities.