Founding Electrical Engineer

• →Custom Electronics Design: Design, prototype, and bring up custom circuit boards for sensing, actuation, precision measurement, and system control.
• →Autonomous Machine Integration: Develop robust electrical architecture for complex, autonomous hardware operating under stringent physical and thermal tolerances.
• →Test & Measurement Systems: Build high-accuracy test fixtures, harnesses, instrumentation, and agentic harnesses to rigorously validate hardware performance.
• →Root-Cause Debugging: Diagnose and resolve complex failures spanning electronics, firmware, software, and mechanical interactions using benchtop instrumentation.
• →Firmware & Control Development: Write low-level software/firmware necessary to drive, test, and debug custom electrical and mechatronic subsystems.
• →End-to-End Ownership: Take full technical ownership of subsystems—from early-stage architecture and schematic design to physical integration and fielded validation.

• Deep Electrical Engineering Expertise: Mastery of circuit design, signal integrity, power rails, noise reduction, and failure modes. Proven track record of personally designing, bringing up, and debugging circuit boards to verified metrics.
• Hardware Shipping Track Record: Background delivering hardware at a company that ships real, fielded products (e.g., robotics, aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial automation, semiconductor equipment, or advanced manufacturing).
• Benchtop Test & Diagnostic Skills: Extensive experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DAQs, signal generators, power supplies, and custom test fixtures to isolate issues at the bench.
• Systems & Mechanical Intuition: Solid understanding of how electronics behave in physical machines, including thermal dynamics, motor controls, vibration, sensors, grounding, and packaging.
• Strong Coding Fundamentals: Proficiency in writing firmware or code to control and debug hardware independently, built on strong fundamental programming concepts.
• Educational & Practical Background: Bachelor’s or advanced degree in EE, CS, ME, Physics, or equivalent high-impact, hands-on engineering experience.
• Work Style & Location: 100% on-site in San Francisco, CA. Comfort with an intense, high-commitment founding environment (typically 6 days/week) built around extreme ownership and rapid iteration.

1. Initial Screening: Preliminary discussion covering background, key engineering accomplishments, and alignment with high-ownership technical roles.
2. Technical Deep-Dive: In-depth technical interview focused on schematic design, circuit bring-up, real-world failure analysis, and measurement metrics from past shipped hardware.
3. On-Site Bench & Architecture Evaluation: Practical session at the San Francisco lab evaluating circuit design, benchtop debugging capability, and cross-system problem-solving.
4. Final Founding Team Conversation: Discussion with the leadership team covering mission alignment, work style, and equity/offer details.

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