Electrical Engineer - Hardware Design

Client is looking for an Electrical Engineer with 2+ years of experience building physical hardware to join our lean, high-impact team designing the next generation of solar-powered highway camera systems. You're someone who has owned a full PCB design end-to-end, seen your hardware fail in the real world, and learned from it. Client is scaling from dozens of deployed cameras to hundreds across the country, and we need methodical, hands-on engineers who can make our hardware more robust, reliable, and manufacturable.

This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves getting their hands dirty, and is excited to solve open-ended problems — from designing circuits to testing them on the highway.

• End-to-End PCB Design: Own the entire hardware lifecycle in Altium—from initial schematic capture and layout to component selection, prototyping, manufacturing, and field deployment.
• Power Optimization: Enhance our solar-charging, battery management, and DC-DC power systems to ensure high reliability under incredibly tight power budgets and extreme outdoor environments.
• Lab Validation & Debugging: Get hands-on in our electronics lab using oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, and other test gear to diagnose, debug, and validate hardware.
• Firmware & Automation: Write embedded C/C++ or Python scripts to bring up, test, and automate the validation of your custom hardware designs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with our embedded systems, software, and operations teams. You will occasionally travel (approximately quarterly) to assist with field installations, testing, and calibration under real-world conditions.

• 2 to 6 years of experience in hardware electrical engineering.
• Full-Lifecycle PCB Ownership: Proven track record of taking custom boards from a blank canvas in schematic capture through to manufactured, fully functional, and tested physical hardware.
• Startup Mindset: Experience in a small team or startup environment where you had broad hardware ownership rather than being siloed into a single narrow task.
• Harsh-Environment Deployments: Prior experience designing hardware that survives unattended in harsh, rugged, or outdoor environments (e.g., IoT, outdoor field devices, automotive, or marine systems).
• Education: BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.

• EDA Tools: High proficiency in Altium Designer (or equivalent EDA software).
• Power Systems: Solid understanding of solar charging, battery management systems (BMS), and DC-DC conversion.
• Coding/Scripting: Ability to write Embedded C/C++ or Python for hardware test automation and basic firmware bring-up.
• Hardware Protocols: Experience with serial and networking protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet).

• Self-Directed Problem Solver: You don’t wait for a product manager to hand you a step-by-step ticket. You independently identify hardware failures, root causes, and propose robust solutions.
• Thrives in Ambiguity: You love getting your hands dirty, trying things, failing quickly in the lab, learning from those failures, and iterating fast.