Electrical Hardware Design Engineer

Electrical Hardware Design Engineer

Location: Costa Mesa, CA - 5 days onsite

Duration: 6-month contract with extensions and potential conversion to permanent

Pay Rate: $60-65hr

Overview

We are seeking an Electrical Hardware Engineer with strong hands-on hardware design experience and ownership of products from concept through deployment. This role is heavily focused on circuit and hardware design, with additional responsibility for board bring-up, debugging, root cause analysis, and post-deployment support.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical hardware designs from concept, prototyping, and design review through deployment
• Design analog, digital, and power electronics circuits
• Develop schematics and support PCB development, layout, and stackup decisions
• Perform board bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Support manufacturing, integration, and hardware issues after product deployment
• Perform component selection, worst-case analysis, and thermal evaluation
• Partner with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and systems engineering teams

Must Haves

• Strong electrical hardware design experience with hands-on circuit design ownership
• Experience taking hardware products from design/prototype through release and deployment
• Strong fundamentals in analog, digital, and power electronics
• Experience with buck converters, MOSFETs, power supplies, op-amps, and thermal considerations
• Experience with schematic design, PCB development, board bring-up, and debugging
• Understanding of I2C, SPI, PCB stackups, and worst-case analysis
• Experience investigating and resolving hardware failures after deployment
• Strong technical communication skills with the ability to draw circuits, whiteboard designs, and clearly explain engineering decisions