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Staff Systems Electrical Engineer (Hardware Development)
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$70,000 – $185,000 / year
Location:
San Francisco, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
14 August 2026
What they need
- We’re hiring a Staff Systems Electrical Engineer to own the electrical architecture across our products: power stage, battery integration, control electronics, sensing, and the cross-functional interfaces to firmware, thermal, and mechanical
- Most of our difficult problems cross discipline boundaries. In the cooktop, coil drive efficiency is a magnetics problem, a control problem, and a thermal problem at the same time. Emissions compliance is largely determined by layout and switching decisions made months before the first system-level test is completed
- Driving the electrical architecture of the products you’re responsible for, from concept through certification and production, requires someone who works comfortably at all levels and can make the tradeoff calls even when the answer isn’t clear
- Because we’re building a product line rather than a single appliance, your products both inherit from and contribute to a shared platform. Deciding what to reuse, what to build specifically, and where to spend on flexibility we can’t yet justify is a large part of the work
- We’re also changing how we build. We’ve relied on JDM partners for execution up to this point and will continue to run those programs, but we’re bringing more architecture, design, and even manufacturing work in house. Leveraging your expertise to help guide this transition is another major area of responsibility for this role
- System architecture. Partition functionality across boards, processors, and software. Own requirement flowdown from product spec to subsystem spec, along with the tradeoff analysis and documentation behind it
- Interfaces. Define and maintain the boundaries: hardware to firmware, board to board, electrical to thermal and mechanical
- Platform reuse. Decide what your products take from the shared platform and what they contribute back, and keep that boundary honest as the line grows
- Cross-domain problems. Control loop behavior across varying loads, sensing accuracy under thermal and electrical stress, noise coupling and emissions, fault detection and its coverage
- Design review. Lead electrical design reviews and set the standards our designs are held to
- Build versus buy. Own the technical analysis behind which subsystems we bring in house and which stay with partners, and build the standards and review process to support the ones we own
- Reliability and risk. Own DFMEA for the electrical system: drive the analysis and keep it tied to real design decisions rather than a document that gets filled in once. Set derating and component qualification standards, and own root cause on field and factory failures (e.g. MIL, EFFA)
- Partner engineering. Act as the senior technical counterpart to our JDM and CM partners, some of them outside the US, including DFM and production test architecture. Will require travel, roughly 4-6 trips a year
- Compliance. Own the electrical path through EMC and product safety certification
- Internal tooling. Build the tooling that gives a small team leverage over a large system: characterization and analysis pipelines, design review support, documentation. We expect this to be increasingly AI-assisted
- Mentorship. Support the engineers around you through design review and time at the bench- Experience with design for safety and compliance, including mains isolation, creepage/clearance, and implementation of safety standards like UL/IEC 60730
- Embedded software fluency and debugging judgment across domains: enough fluency to specify and review firmware, and the ability to judge whether a symptom is electrical, firmware, thermal, or mechanical
- Clear technical communication, in writing and in person. The ability to net out complicated technical topics for internal and external stakeholders at all levels of technical comprehension
- 10+ years of relevant experience (or 8+ with an MS) designing electronics that shipped at volume, including at least two products taken from concept through mass production, with direct ownership of EVT/DVT/PVT gates, build support, and production test yield at ramp
- Analog and mixed-signal depth: sensor interfaces, ADCs, signal conditioning, grounding and return paths
- Experience taking designs through EMC and product safety certification (UL, IEC, FCC, or similar)
- Comfort using and building AI tools. We use LLMs and agentic tooling in daily engineering work — analysis, scripting, design review, documentation — and we’re interested in people who build the tools they need
- Demonstrated ownership of system-level architecture: partitioning, interface definition, requirement flowdown
- Involvement in building to BOM cost and COGS targets, with experience contributing to cost-down cycles and second-sourcing
- Battery systems, BMS, or energy storage integration experience. Familiarity with battery safety/compliance standards (e.g., UL 9540A, UL 1973, IEC 62133) is huge plus
- Power electronics: switch-mode converters, resonant inverters, magnetics
- Induction heating, motor drive, or another high-power switching application
- Platform or product-family architecture, where designs had to serve more than one product
- Consumer appliance experience, including UL 858 or equivalent
- Python and SCPI scripting for characterization and test automation
- Experience building an in-house hardware capability that had previously been outsourced- Intro call with our People Operations Team
- Interview with our Director of Engineering
- Onsite interview with our Electrical and Hardware teams, our Principal Technical Program Manager, and our Software team
- A short conversation with our COO &/or Founder and CEO
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