SENIOR Hardware Engineer – Embedded Systems and Electronics

p-Chip® is an entrepreneurial technology company bringing to market a distinctive digital authentication and traceability platform that helps protect the products and materials people depend on every day. Our technologies can support authentication, provenance, chain of custody, and track-and-trace applications across pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, agriculture, automotive, electronics, and other critical markets.

Our platform connects the physical and digital worlds through uniquely serialized silicon microtransponders, reader technology, and software. Together, these components can create a persistent digital identity for an object, enabling organizations to verify what it is, where it came from, and how it has moved or changed.

We are a small, collaborative company where people work across disciplines and have a meaningful impact. We encourage everyone to have a voice and contribute ideas as we build technology intended to make products, supply chains, and information more trustworthy.

p-Chip® is an entrepreneurial technology company bringing to market a distinctive digital authentication and traceability platform that helps protect the products and materials people depend on every day. Our technologies can support authentication, provenance, chain of custody, and track-and-trace applications across pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, agriculture, automotive, electronics, and other critical markets.

Our platform connects the physical and digital worlds through uniquely serialized silicon microtransponders, reader technology, and software. Together, these components can create a persistent digital identity for an object, enabling organizations to verify what it is, where it came from, and how it has moved or changed.

We are a small, collaborative company where people work across disciplines and have a meaningful impact. We encourage everyone to have a voice and contribute ideas as we build technology intended to make products, supply chains, and information more trustworthy.

Join p-Chip's engineering team to help develop and advance our proprietary reader technology, which enables the identification and authentication of uniquely serialized silicon microtransponders.

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you will take ownership of key aspects of reader hardware and embedded systems development, from design and prototyping through debugging, testing, and validation. Your work will contribute directly to improving reader performance, reliability, and manufacturability as we continue advancing our commercial technology.

This is a hands-on engineering role in a small, collaborative team. You will work primarily across electronic hardware, embedded firmware, and system-level performance optimization while collaborating on related technologies, including RF and analog signal processing, optical systems, FPGA-based decoding, wireless communications, and mechanical integration.

We are looking for someone who combines strong technical fundamentals with practical engineering judgment, enjoys solving challenging problems through experimentation and measurement, and is comfortable taking responsibility for technical outcomes.

• Reader hardware — schematic capture, PCB layout and review, component selection, bring-up, and design-for-manufacture on multi-board systems
• Firmware — microcontroller firmware in C, including power management, wireless communication, peripheral interfaces, and secure-element integration
• Rx/Tx development — iterative characterization and improvement of the communication path between the p-Chip® microtransponder and the reader, directed toward better signal detection, robustness, and read performance
• Analog and RF…