Senior Electrical Engineer

Mission

Own Teleo's board-level electrical hardware from schematic to production. Take ownership of existing PCB designs, bring them up to a professional standard, and establish the processes and rigor needed to design, validate, and manufacture reliable boards at the pace of a fast-growing startup.

Core Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of PCB design: schematic capture, layout, simulation, prototyping, validation, and production release
• Take ownership of existing board designs — clean up schematics, BOMs, and documentation to a maintainable, professional standard
• Design power stages, sensor interfaces, high-precision analog I/O, digital I/O, and galvanic isolation circuits
• Establish and own validation and test practices: bench testing, ESD, load testing, resonance tuning, and whatever else the design demands
• Manage DFM reviews and own the relationship with contract manufacturers and fab houses
• Own compliance and EMC testing
• Collaborate with the embedded firmware team on board bring-up and hardware-software integration
• Provide high-level systems guidance on cable harnesses and electrical architecture to junior engineers

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional electrical engineering experience with a focus on PCB design through production
• Strong analog and digital circuit design fundamentals
• Experience designing low-voltage power circuits with high-current stages
• Proficient in KiCad (schematic capture, layout, BOM management)
• Hands-on validation and debugging: oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, load testing
• Experience managing contract manufacturers and fab houses through DFM and production
• Demonstrated ability to own board designs end to end with minimal oversight
• Comfortable working on-site in Palo Alto, CA

Strong Experience With

• Mixed-signal design: high-precision analog, sensor interfaces, galvanic isolation
• DFM practices: panelization, tolerancing, component selection for manufacturability
• Compliance and EMC testing processes
• Rapid iteration: comfortable spinning boards quickly without sacrificing quality
• Maintaining clean, well-documented schematics and BOMs across multiple active designs

Nice to Have

• Experience in automotive, heavy equipment, or ruggedized industrial environments
• Familiarity with embedded firmware concepts — enough to be a strong partner during bring-up
• Experience establishing electrical engineering standards and validation processes on a small team
• Early-stage startup experience — comfortable with broad ownership and fast iteration