Staff Electrical Engineer

The role

You will own the sensing and signal-acquisition platform by designing and validating electronic hardware. This role spans analog design, embedded systems, and field deployment to capture electrical signals from plants and trees.

What you will do

• Set the electrical architecture for the sensing platform.
• Own the mixed-signal front end for plant electrophysiology.
• Design, review, and bring up schematics and PCBAs.
• Establish validation methods and characterization protocols.
• Partner with science and foundation-model teams to improve signal quality.
• Build custom lab and research hardware.
• Contribute to embedded firmware development in C/C++.
• Drive technical decisions for hardware performance and reliability.
• Bring up new builds using oscilloscope, logic analyzer, and spectrum analyzer.

Required qualifications

• 6–12 years developing and shipping electronic products.
• Strong mixed-signal and analog design experience.
• Hands-on schematic capture, PCB design, bring-up, and debugging.
• Technical leadership across disciplines.
• Comfortable setting technical direction.
• Embedded experience with C/C++ on ESP32/ARM and RTOS basics.
• Experience proving sensor accuracy through analog front end characterization and validation.

Nice to have

• Biosensors, electrophysiology, neural interfaces, bioelectronics, or other low-signal sensing systems
• Plant science exposure
• Low-power IoT stacks (LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, LTE-M) and battery-life optimization
• DSP, digital filtering, or signal-processing experience
• Prior experience at a deep-tech or hardware-software company
• Prior outdoor or agricultural product experience

Benefits

• Standard benefits

About the company

The Electric Plant Co. is building a new category of plant and tree intelligence using IoT hardware and foundation models. They are a small, fast-moving company in San Francisco working at the intersection of biology, hardware, AI, and IoT.