Electronics Engineer

About The Role

Electronics Engineer Onsite in Foster City, CA | 5 days in office

Responsibilities

• Directly work with electrical engineers to build, bring up, and rework vehicle components and PCB assemblies.
• Help scale the existing work into production.
• Assemble and rework multi layer electronic circuit boards.
• Build, modify, and repair automotive-grade wire harnesses using industry-standard connectors (eg. TE, Molex, Deutsch).
• Assemble and wire electrical control panels, test hardware on industrial rack systems and test benches.
• Help maintain, expand and improve the electronics lab and workspaces and its capabilities, including helping buy and oversee maintenance of tools and stocking of parts.
• Create, manage and track electrical components, connectors, and consumables; proactively restock parts to ensure zero downtime for engineering sprints.
• Create and maintain a "Lend/Receive" system for high-value equipment(s) to ensure accountability across team members / teams.
• Manage the intake of prototype parts and the outbound shipment of test fixtures to external sites or vehicle teams.
• Conduct detailed inspections of PCBAs and cable assemblies to locate and resolve assembly issues.
• Handle purchases of various components needed for engineers within team and cross-team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with electronic product assembly, with 2+ years of work experience.
• Hands-on experience in prototype work and functional verification (testing) specifically with electronics.
• Some level of mechanical knowledge is desirable.
• Hands-on and fluent with basic lab equipment: DMM, power supplies, electronic loads.
• Ability to read electrical schematics and BOMs.
• Experienced and comfortable working under a microscope.
• Hands-on experience with mechanical hand-tools common in electronic assemblies.
• Good documentation and communication skills (strong technical writing).
• Strong computer skills and proficiency on MacOS or Windows with browser-based applications.
• Ability to proactively communicate with all employees and work well in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and input from multiple sources (Managers, Engineers).
• Pride in detail-oriented, methodical, careful, and clean work that leads to a very low rate of defects in the field.

Bonus Qualifications

• Ability to diagnose electrical systems a plus.
• Experience working on safety-critical electronics destined for harsh environments such as for vehicles, aircrafts, missiles, or space systems a plus.
• PCB Design on Altium / KiCAD.
• CAD skills in Altium Designer or SolidWorks a plus.
• Jira and Confluence skills a plus.
• Comfortable in using Linux environments.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Engineering.
• Preferred: Master's in Electrical Engineering, Master's in Electronics Engineering, Master's in Mechatronics, PhD in Electrical Engineering.