Principal Electrical Engineer

The Elevator Pitch

As Evolv’s Principal Electrical Engineer, you’ll define the technical direction for our most complex products. You’ll be the organization’s top electrical engineering authority, trusted to solve problems no one else can, and to make high impact design decisions that shape our technology roadmap. You’ll lead by example, mentoring a team of talented engineers, raising the technical bar, and ensuring every design meets the highest standards of performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

Your deep expertise in RF, mixed-signal, digital, and low-noise PCB design will guide the development of systems that push the boundaries of innovation and deliver exceptional value to our customers. If you excel at seeing the big picture while diving into the most intricate technical challenges, and you’re also ready to have a direct, visible impact on our products and our business, then this is your role.

Success

in the Role:
What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

In the first 30 days, you will:

• Establish working relationships across Engineering, Manufacturing, Technical Support, and Field Service.

• Develop a full understanding of Evolv’s products, workflows, and hardware development roadmap.

• Participate in product builds at Contract Manufacturing partners and observe at least one customer installation.

• Provide initial peer review feedback on active hardware designs, highlighting top technical risks.

Within 3 months, you will:

• Become recognized asthe primary technical authority for complex electrical engineering challenges.

• Lead design work on high-priority projects, delivering solutions to critical technical problems.

• Partner with quality and manufacturing to improve product yield and reliability through targeted design changes.

• Conduct and lead schematic and printed circuit board design reviews, reducing production risk.

• Ensure product requirements are consistently met without costly late-stage changes.

By the end of the first year, you will:

• Set and maintain technical standards for electrical engineering across all projects.

• Deliver measurable contributions to key program milestones and the technology roadmap.

• Implement at least two process or tool improvements that shorten design cycles or improve product quality.

• Mentor and coach team members, raising overall technical capability.

• Close identified gaps in design-for-manufacturing, design-for-test, and design-for-serviceability practices, reducing lifecycle costs.

The Work:
What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Work across engineering functions to architect, design, and help direct the execution of assigned projects.

• Work cross-functionally (product, manufacturing, regulatory, service and quality) to develop system architecture, specifications, verification testing, and troubleshooting

• Work within engineering to translate product requirements (PRDs) into design specifications for assigned projects.

• Hands-on design of electronics that successfully integrate with electromechanical and software subsystems.

• Mastery in contemporary tools for simulation, CAD, analysis, and documentation.

• Contribute to detailed electrical and firmware design, including analog, digital, power supply, power electronics, timing and PLLs, and low-noise PCB design.

• Create and maintain test protocols for design verification and validation activities as required.

• Oversee the execution of testing to prescribed protocols, documenting results and creating final reports for assigned projects.

• Create and maintain a traceability matrix between requirements, design, specifications, and testing for assigned projects.

• Work with the Product Management team to define and execute system integration activities and usability studies within projects.

• Prepare, present, and participate in comprehensive technical and/or design reviews.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team?

You will join the R&D team, be a key member of the Electrical Engineering team, and report to the Electrical Engineering Manager. The R&D organization…