Hardware Design Engineer

At Pulse Forge, we’re expanding the boundaries of advanced manufacturing through pulsed-light technology. As an Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll design the hardware behind our systems from power delivery and precision instrumentation to controls and system integration. You’ll work and collaborate across electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to take new products from concept through customer deployment.

At Pulse Forge, we’re expanding the boundaries of advanced manufacturing through pulsed-light technology. As an Electrical Design Engineer, you’ll design the hardware behind our systems from power delivery and precision instrumentation to controls and system integration. You’ll work and collaborate across electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to take new products from concept through customer deployment.

The Team

You’ll join a growing electrical engineering team at the heart of every sub-system developed, tested, supported, and shipped at Pulse Forge.

Every board that ships in a Pulse Forge system comes from this group. That means you'll see your work go from concept to production and hear directly how it performs in the field. There is very little distance between the engineer who designed the hardware and the outcome.

You’ll be working on and developing differing systems ranging from instrumentation, mixed-signal electronics, power systems, control and safety systems.

• Develop schematics, select components, and evaluate design tradeoffs on hardware you own from concept through release
• System specifications and requirement gathering and definition
• Plan and develop PCB layouts following best practices for signal integrity, thermal performance, noise immunity, and EMI mitigation
• Bring up, debug, characterize, and validate new designs at the bench
• Design and execute test plans, fixtures, and experiments, and use data, simulations, and measurements to guide design decisions
• Collaborate with software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to develop solutions that work not only on the bench, but in production and at customer sites
• Help with sustaining work and product improvements across our installed base.
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 2+ years of experience designing, building, and testing electronic hardware
• Experience developing original circuits and making design decisions from first principles, rather than only modifying existing designs.
• Substantial research, competition, hobby, or personal project experience may count toward this requirement when it demonstrates meaningful design, build, test, and debugging work
• Strong fundamentals and comfort working at the boundaries between analog, digital, and power.
• Comfortable at the bench with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and common lab equipment
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• High-voltage power electronics and high-energy power delivery
• Optical instrumentation and precision sensing
• Embedded control hardware and data acquisition
• Computing modules, firmware, and FPGA-based systems
• High-speed measurement and diagnostics
• Safety-critical industrial equipment
• Strong Analog Design experience
• Firmware or FPGA development, and comfort working across hardware and software during integration and debugging
• Power supply or mixed-signal circuit design
• Experience working on systems subject to harsh environments and demanding specifications
• You’ve designed something that was built and tested
• You enjoy working at the bench and using measurements to resolve technical questions and guide decisions
• You improve systems you inherit instead of simply documenting their flaws
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and…