Electrical Engineer – San Jose, CA

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Next Flex, America’s Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute, is a public-private partnership and non-profit with the mission of advancing the capabilities and strengthening the industrial base for U.S. manufacturing of Hybrid Electronics (HE). Next Flex was designed to facilitate the development of enabling manufacturing technologies and knowledge sharing with institute members and the U.S. Government. Our work enables the next generation of electronics and packaging for government and commercial applications for healthcare, wearable, industrial, communications, automotive, aerospace, and agricultural markets, as well as novel applications for emerging markets.

Complementing Next Flex’s focus on developing and commercializing innovative technologies, Next Flex’s Education and Workforce Development department is creating the next-generation STEM workforce for the electronics industry. In support of our education and workforce development goals, Next Flex develops and operates a portfolio of learning programs designed to be adopted by various stakeholders (employers, higher education, non-profit, and K-12 entities) across the country with the goal of attracting and training the future advanced manufacturing workforce and upskilling and retraining the existing workforce.

Next Flex offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Next Flex is looking for a hands‑on hardware design engineer to join the Systems Design team. In this role, you will design, prototype, and test the next generation of additively manufactured flexible hybrid electronic solutions.

This is a unique role perfect for an engineer who is interested in owning advanced projects. You will have the opportunity to participate in all phases of system design and test. You will work closely with our experts in system integration, firmware, software, testing, and process, in a broad range of industries from medical devices to consumer electronics.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design, develop and test electrical devices on systems with advanced additive manufacturing techniques.
• Schematic capture and layout; create footprint elements in parts libraries.
• Communicate and collaborate with a multi‑disciplinary team of engineers and scientists.
• Assist and participate in the development of embedded C/C++ software.

• B.S. with 3 years of experience or MSEE with 1 year experience or Ph.D. graduate.
• Experience designing PCBs for size, weight, and power constrained applications.
• Experience with all phases of PCB design: part selection, schematic creation, constraint setting, library management, board layout, and manufacturing document creation.
• Experience with PCB ECAD tools.
• Experience with wireless systems such as BLE, WIFI, UWB, NFC.
• Strong EE fundamentals and HW debugging skills with lab equipment.

• Proficiency with Siemens EDA Xpedition Schematic and Layout tools.
• Proficiency with Hyper Lynx SI/PI, Hyper Lynx Full Wave Solver, or HFSS.
• Experience designing for low‑power systems with multiple mixed signal ICs, power management devices, wired/wireless charging, and sensors.
• Experience with layout for low noise applications/high‑noise environments.
• Experience designing Flex devices or non‑planar electronics.
• Experience with the following common communication protocols: SPI, UART, USART, I2C, USB.
• Experience with designing electrical devices for medical systems.
• Experience with firmware development in C or C++ for embedded systems.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

On‑site office work will be conducted…