Staff Electrical Engineer
Element Science, Inc. · Redwood City, CA · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$170k–$185k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Deliver board-level designs including analysis, schematics, and PCB layout for Class III products with sensitive analog front-end circuits, sensors, power, and high voltage.
- Lead electrical design work-streams within multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring scope, schedule, and deliverables are met.
- Drive technical decision-making, balancing performance, cost, manufacturability, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and characterize designs through bench testing, system integration, and the creation of supporting test fixtures.
- Qualify critical alternate components as necessary that meet design needs.
- Perform failure analysis and document investigations to support manufacturing scale.
- Sustaining engineering efforts: Develop designs with components selected for cost reduction or obsolescence, and support qualifying alternate suppliers.
- Dry-run engineering tests and conduct / guide design verification test protocols.
- Support EMC/EMI testing and compliance activities, including preparation, execution, and troubleshooting to ensure designs meet applicable IEC standards such as IEC 60601.
- Document design descriptions and engineering analysis to support Manufacturing and Quality.
- Support Commercial Stage activities including manufacturing support, New Product Introduction programs, and Field Failure Analysis.
- Provide technical support for cross-functional teams, including Systems, Mechanical, Firmware, and Manufacturing Engineering.
- Facilitate effective collaboration across disciplines, aligning design activities with project milestones and product requirements.
- Provide peer review of designs and documentation.
- Mentor junior engineers as the team size grows.
Qualifications
- MSEE or BSEE with at least 10+ years of analog electronics design experience.
- Electrical design, test, and sustaining experience for products with microprocessors, FPGAs, analog, and high-voltage electronics.
- Experience with board bring-up, debug, and integration of embedded systems including ability to modify and compile C code for microcontrollers to support hardware testing.
- Good understanding of product life cycle(s) management from concept through production including manufacturing follow up. DFM, DFT.
- Experience working directly with fab and assembly CMs.
- Familiarity with medical standards and verification to those standards and QMS for Class III medical devices.
- Preferred knowledge of digital signal processing concepts for electrophysiology and other sensor data.
- Familiarity with low power circuit design techniques.
- Familiarity with electrical safety standards and HV isolation.
- Experience with circuit and system simulation techniques desired.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience with project leadership, including coordination with multiple disciplines from concept through manufacturing transfer.