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Founding Electrical Engineer

Nine Fives
San Mateo, CA
Full Time
Compensation
$170,000–$200,000/year

Job Description

About the role:

This is a full time salaried position. Compensation is $170,000 - $200,000/yr + equity & benefits. 

As a Founding Electrical Engineer you will own products from cradle to grave. You will work with our founding team to develop the next generation of electronic test equipment. 

Responsibilities:

  • Define product requirements and synthesize into schematics 
  • Perform component selection and BOM optimization
  • Schematic design and routing for digital and analog PCBs
  • Perform bringup and characterization of prototype PCBAs
  • Write and maintain a common embedded linux software stack across products

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar. 
  • 3+ years experience with Altium, KiCAD, or other industry standard EDA tool sets.
  • 2+ years experience performing analysis with ADS or Microwave Office
  • 2+ years experience performing analysis with HFSS or CST studio
  • 2+ years experience with common RF lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and network analyzers.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

  • Masters degree in electrical engineering with a focus on Radio Frequency Hardware design
  • Experience designing PCBAs with high speed interfaces such as DDR and/or ethernet
  • Experience designing RF PCBAs (LNAs, Power Amplifiers, couplers, feed networks or similar).
  • Experience designing medium-complexity switch mode power supplies (buck, buck-boost, flyback).
  • Familiarity with common interfaces for networking test equipment (SCPI, VISA, HiSlip, LXI, RESTful API) and basic knowledge of underlying network stack (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP).
  • 2+ years experience working on embedded Linux based systems (especially buildroot based)
  • 2+ years experience with Python, Go, or C/C++ development.

Additional Requirements:

  • Some travel may be required
  • Role is in-person, 5 days a week.
  • Weekend work is neither required nor expected.

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Job Details

Category
Electrical
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
San Mateo, CA
Posted
Compensation
$170,000 - $200,000 per year

About Nine Fives

Simple, Networked, Driverless, RF Test Equipment

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