Embedded / Electrical Engineer

The role

An electrical engineer will lead PCB and power systems for wearable capture hardware. This involves high-speed, mixed-signal work in tight wearable form factors.

What you will do

• Lead PCB and power systems for wearable capture hardware
• Integrate compute modules and custom carrier boards
• Route high-speed interfaces from modules to peripherals
• Coordinate bring-up with firmware
• Own end-to-end rigid-flex and high-density PCB design
• Design power architecture and battery systems
• Integrate multi-camera arrays and various sensors
• Perform board bring-up, debugging, and validation
• Conduct signal integrity, power integrity, and timing diagnosis
• Support EMC pre-scans and compliance

Required qualifications

• Strong PCB design in Altium, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad
• High-speed digital design: differential pair routing, impedance control, stack-up
• SI/PI simulation and validation
• Compute module / SoM carrier board experience
• Lab debugging instincts (scope, logic analyzer, network analyzer)

Nice to have

• Multi-camera array design (3+ concurrent cameras)
• High-speed SerDes routing
• ARM SoC carrier work (Qualcomm, NXP, or similar)
• Wearable / body-worn product background
• Hot-swap power design
• FCC / CE / RoHS compliance and DFM handoff experience

About the company

Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, the lab builds custom hardware products and publishes research.