Electrical Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-05
-
Engineering
Electronics Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer, Embedded Software Engineer
Ascential Medical & Life Sciences
San Diego, CA 92127, USA
Position Summary - Electrical Engineer
Designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates electronic systems, PCBA's, parts, components, or integrated circuitry for electronic equipment, or other hardware systems and electrical engineering applications. Determines design approaches and parameters, analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results. Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability, and may participate in the assessment of vendor capability to support product development.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 2–5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 0–2+ years of experience.
Qualifications
- Experience with analog and digital circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, hardware bring-up, and system-level debugging. It's an advantage if the candidate has experience with the Altium Designer tool.
- Familiarity with common embedded interfaces and communication protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, and wireless (drop in modules) technologies.
- Comfortable with direct client interaction, including presentation of technical designs.
- Experience with testing and troubleshooting of PCBA designs using common test equipment.
- Experience with cable design and documentation.
- Knowledge of regulatory processes and requirements, including creating designs compliant with common FCC, UL, CSA, and EU regulatory requirements.
- Experience with integrating sensors, motor controls, power electronics, and embedded peripherals.
- Experience developing embedded systems using C/C++ on microcontrollers and RTOS-based platforms.
- Comfortable with direct client interaction, including presentation of technical designs.
- Working knowledge of software development tools and practices including Git, debugging tools, automated testing, and version control workflows.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux, Python, C#, or development of engineering and test tools is a plus.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering, software development, or test automation tools is desirable.
- Exposure to FPGA development, VHDL, or Verilog is a plus.
- Experience with design methods and requirements for medical devices including ISO
13485, IEC
60601 is desirable.
This is a contract to hire position onsite in San Diego. Annualized salary range: $110,000-$140,000
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).