Hardware Engineer

Location:

San Francisco -- Alabama St.

Experience:

Minimum 10+ years hands‑on

Work Mode: 4 Days Onsite in Office (minimum)

• Work cross functionally with business and product teams, while designing the electronic systems in Gradient's product roadmap.
• Lead product system requirement generation, architectural design, detailed design, layout, testing, and evaluation of mechanical and electro‑mechanical devices, and controls to meet regulatory, safety, quality standards.
• Building on existing schematics, part lists, and engineering requirements.
• Defining function, configuration, and arrangement for circuit boards and system wiring and driving component selection to meet BOM cost targets.
• Prototyping and testing electronic designs.
• Performing schematic capture and PCB layout for analog and digital, and power circuit boards through fabrication and assembly drawings generation.
• Run cross functional design reviews to evaluate electronics including circuit boards within Gradient's products.
• Establish and implement best practices around circuit design, board layouts, hardware verification, and electronics design controls.
• Interface with and support electronics consultants to meet company objectives.
• Evaluate, diagnose, and optimize performance of new electrical designs.
• Build electronics supply chain relationships and manage vendors for prototype builds, and interface with the operations team heading into production.
• Work with contract manufacturers to design functional circuit test (FCT) and In‑Circuit Test (ICT) fixtures.
• Mentor and coach early career engineers to expand their technical expertise.

• Track record of shipping new consumer or industrial electronics products on a tight schedule.
• Experience with motor‑control systems development.
• Experience designing split analog/digital/power electronics.
• 15+ years developing custom mixed signal electronic systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
• Experience with Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, and Design for Testability.
• Experience with ECAD libraries and library configuration management.
• Experience managing others, either internal teams or consultants.

• Experience designing systems that incorporate wireless communication SoCs, especially WiFi and BLE.
• Proficiency with Altium.
• Experience shipping 2 or more consumer products.
• Experience with field‑oriented control of BLDC motors.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Other

IT Services and IT Consulting