Staff Systems Electrical Engineer- Hardware Development

The role

The Staff Systems Electrical Engineer will own the electrical architecture across products including power stage, battery integration, and control electronics. This role involves driving products from concept through certification and production while managing cross-functional interfaces and transitioning work from partners to in-house.

What you will do

• Own system architecture and requirement flowdown
• Define and maintain hardware, firmware, and mechanical interfaces
• Manage platform reuse and product contributions
• Solve cross-domain problems involving control loops, sensing, and emissions
• Lead electrical design reviews and set standards
• Perform technical analysis for build versus buy decisions
• Own DFMEA, component qualification, and root cause analysis
• Act as senior technical counterpart to JDM and CM partners
• Own the electrical path through EMC and product safety certification
• Build internal characterization and analysis tooling

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience or 8+ years with an MS
• Experience designing electronics that shipped at volume
• Ownership of at least two products from concept through mass production
• Direct ownership of EVT/DVT/PVT gates, build support, and production test yield
• Demonstrated ownership of system-level architecture
• Experience building to BOM cost and COGS targets
• Analog and mixed-signal depth including sensor interfaces, ADCs, and signal conditioning
• Embedded software fluency and debugging judgment
• Comfort using and building AI tools
• Experience taking designs through EMC and product safety certification (UL, IEC, FCC, or similar)
• Experience with design for safety and compliance including mains isolation and creepage/clearance
• Clear technical communication in writing and in person

Nice to have

• Battery systems, BMS, or energy storage integration experience
• Familiarity with battery safety/compliance standards (e.g., UL 9540A, UL 1973, IEC 62133)
• Power electronics: switch-mode converters, resonant inverters, magnetics
• Induction heating, motor drive, or another high-power switching application
• Platform or product-family architecture
• Consumer appliance experience, including UL 858 or equivalent
• Python and SCPI scripting for characterization and test automation
• Experience building an in-house hardware capability that had previously been outsourced

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Health
• Vision
• Dental
• Commuter
• Fitness

Before you apply

• Intro call with People Operations Team
• Interview with Director of Engineering
• Onsite interview with Electrical, Hardware, Principal Technical Program Manager, and Software teams
• Conversation with COO and/or Founder and CEO

About the company

Impulse is a team of engineers, designers and innovators based in San Francisco building high-performance products for whole-home electrification.