Principal Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce rigorous design practices including worst-case circuit analysis, component derating, and DFM/DFT/DFR to ensure hardware is reliable and producible at volume
• Serve as the final technical sign-off authority on all major design decisions, design reviews, V&V plans, and product releases
• Mentor and guide electrical engineers across all levels, building technical excellence and raising the standard of hardware practice within the team
• Work with stakeholders and management to define system requirements, validate technical feasibility, and shape the hardware roadmap
• Provide expert-level technical leadership on complex, multi-disciplinary problems across the organization
• Communicate architectural vision and design decisions through clear documentation, design reviews, and presentations to technical and executive audiences

Requirements

• 10+ years of distinguished experience in electrical hardware design, with deep expertise in high-speed digital design and embedded systems
• Demonstrated track record of taking products from concept through high-volume production, with hands-on ownership at each stage of the hardware development lifecycle
• Expert-level proficiency in schematic capture (Altium preferred) with a history of producing and reviewing complex, multi-domain designs
• Mastery of PCB layout principles for high-speed digital, power, and mixed-signal systems, with proven ability to guide layout to meet stringent SI/PI and EMC requirements
• Worst-case circuit analysis and design margin methodology practiced as a standard part of the design process
• Recognized expert in at least one relevant technical domain: power electronics, RF/wireless design, high-speed digital design, or embedded systems architecture
• Proven experience defining system architecture from requirements and executing through to production hardware
• Fluency with high-speed serial interfaces (PCIe, MIPI CSI-2, USB 3.x, LVDS, SerDes)
• Experience with DFM, DFT, and EMC/EMI as practiced disciplines with a record of shipping reliable hardware at volume
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to write precise technical documentation and present complex tradeoffs to both engineering teams and executive leadership

Qualifications

• Nice to have: RF and wireless system design expertise, including antenna design, RF front-end architecture, link budget analysis, and regulatory compliance (FCC/CE)
• Experience with LoRa, FHSS, or similar long-range wireless technologies
• Background in UAV, avionics, robotics, or other applications where hardware reliability and operational environment are demanding
• FPGA design and integration experience within embedded hardware platforms
• Proficiency with multi-physics simulation tools (Ansys SIwave, HyperLynx, or similar) for signal integrity and power delivery analysis
• Experience developing technology roadmaps and evaluating silicon vendors and platforms
• Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink for system-level modeling

Skills

• High-speed digital design
• Embedded systems architecture
• RF/wireless design
• Power electronics
• Signal integrity and power delivery analysis
• Technology roadmapping
• System-level modeling

Benefits

• Competitive equity grants
• Equal opportunity employer

Pay

US Salary Range $255,000 - $357,000 USD

Schedule

Not specified