Title: Hardware Electrical Engineer V
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (onsite)
Duration: 6+ month contract
Compensation: $71 – 91.00/hr. 
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Job Summary
The primary function of this role is a generalist Electrical Engineer supporting smart glasses case hardware development. Day-to-day work includes reviewing designs and schematics, evaluating PCB layouts, performing validation testing, and conducting failure analysis. The primary focus is hands-on lab work, executing detailed electrical measurements, troubleshooting, and system-level analysis to ensure hardware meets performance, reliability, and safety expectations. Key focus areas include power, battery, charging, and system-level measurements. The ideal candidate has strong EE fundamentals, hands-on lab skills, and experience in consumer electronics or wearables.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own validation efforts for smart glasses case systems, including defining test plans, coverage, and pass/fail criteria.
• Perform system-level electrical measurements and analysis across power rails, regulators, batteries, charging paths, and load behavior.
• Execute lab debugging and troubleshooting using oscilloscopes, power meters, DMMs, logic analyzers, and similar instrumentation.
• Conduct failure analysis of electrical issues including component failures, battery degradation, charging anomalies, and system-level faults.
• Review and evaluate PCB layouts, schematics, and designs — flag errors and suggest improvements.
• Review and approve product prototypes, working models, or simulation-based models.
• Write detailed functional specifications, test procedures, and design tradeoff documentation.
• Support new technology introduction and NPI/manufacturing validation efforts.
• Direct technicians, engineering designers, or other technical support personnel as needed.
• Ensure compliance with relevant safety and regulatory standards (e.g., EMC) and support certification activities.
• Candidates will be evaluated based on deliverables in hardware validation, prototype builds, documentation quality, and cross-functional communication.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an Electrical Engineer with hands-on lab validation and debugging experience.
• Proficiency with lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, power meters, multimeters, electronic loads, etc.).
• Demonstrated strength in system-level electrical analysis and troubleshooting (power integrity, transient response, noise, efficiency, stability).
• Experience with high-density rigid/flex board design and system integration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of driving issues to root cause.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Experience in consumer electronics, wearables, or similar highly integrated systems.
• Familiarity with automated test systems and scripting (Python, LabVIEW, or similar).
• Working knowledge of regulatory and safety considerations (EMC, safety, etc.).
• Embedded software basics — comfortable reviewing software logs and code.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing or maintaining validation methodologies for battery-powered wearable systems.
• Experience creating automated characterization setups (power profiling, regression tests, long-run stability testing).
• Experience supporting NPI/manufacturing validation and bridging lab results to production test strategies.
• Experience with SoC bring-up, sensor integration, or wireless/audio/display subsystems.

Skills:

• Good EE fundamentals.
• High-density rigid/flex board design and system integration experience.
• Hands-on lab skills. Rapid prototyping with what's available. Can-do attitude.
• Ability to drive projects with high ambiguity, multiple paths, and fuzzy future to clarity.
• Understanding of core tech areas such as SoC, sensor, wireless, audio, display, and interfaces (USB, MIPI, PCIe, SPI, I2C). Capable of designing, bringing up, and evaluating projects in those areas.
• Embedded software basics.
• Comfortable looking into software logs/code.
• Use automation to help the team improve project quality and scale to more projects.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capability, with the ability to influence without authority.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (or related engineering field) required.

Our benefits package includes: 

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!

 
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