Senior Electrical Systems Engineer

About the role

InnerPlant is on a mission to transform farming by turning plants into living sensors that signal the onset of stress, enabling farmers to increase yields and reduce costs by optimizing inputs. As a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer, you will lead the design, integration, and deployment of electrical systems that power our sensing platforms and field technologies for our commercial product, CropVoice. The CropVoice platform translates signals from our living sensors to pinpoint stress well before visible symptoms, giving farmers and agronomists critical and timely insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical system architecture for next-generation sensing and imaging platforms
• Design analog and digital electronic circuits for embedded hardware and sensor interfaces
• Develop robust power distribution, battery management, and power optimization solutions for field-deployed systems
• Select components, create schematics, support PCB layout, and oversee prototype builds
• Define system-level requirements, interface specifications, and verification plans
• Perform hardware validation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
• Support environmental, EMC, reliability, and field testing to ensure dependable operation under real-world agricultural conditions
• Manage engineering documentation including design reviews, BOMs, test reports, and manufacturing documentation
• Partner with contract manufacturers and suppliers to transition designs into production

What makes you stand out

• Forward-thinking with respect to solutions that are scalable and cost-effective for near and long-term commercial objectives, balancing performance, reliability, ease of manufacture, and cost
• Collaborate across internal teams, including software, optical, mechanical, and product engineering, to deliver integrated hardware solutions
• Relentlessly strive for continuous improvement, including design enhancements
• Mentor junior members of the team and help establish engineering best practices
• Communicate cost/reliability tradeoffs of design decisions effectively

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline (Master's in EE preferred)
• 8+ years of experience developing complex electronic systems
• Strong experience with mixed-signal circuit design and embedded hardware
• Experience designing systems that integrate sensors, imaging devices, communications, or industrial electronics
• Experience with embedded Linux or microcontroller-based platforms
• Familiarity with wireless communications, GPS/GNSS, or edge computing devices
• Experience with cloud computing and fleet management platforms like AWS IoT Core, RemoteIt, etc.
• Familiarity with communication protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, Ethernet, CAN, or USB
• Experience with optical sensing, imaging systems, machine vision, or precision agriculture technologies (preferred)
• Knowledge of design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and regulatory compliance (preferred)