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Founding Electrical Engineer

Nine Fives is hiring a Founding Electrical Engineer in San Mateo, CA. Full brief — comp band, interview process, and hiring team — available to Employbl members.

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Founding Electrical Engineer · Nine Fives

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Job title
Founding Electrical Engineer
Job location
San Mateo, CA, US
Job description
## About the role: This is a full time salaried position. Compensation is $170,000 - $200,000/yr + equity & benefits.  As a Founding Electrical Engineer you will own products from cradle to grave. You will work with our founding team to develop the next generation of electronic test equipment.  ## Responsibilities: * Define product requirements and synthesize into schematics  * Perform component selection and BOM optimization * Schematic design and routing for digital and analog PCBs * Perform bringup and characterization of prototype PCBAs * Write and maintain a common embedded linux software stack across products ## Basic Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar.  * 3+ years experience with Altium, KiCAD, or other industry standard EDA tool sets. * 2+ years experience performing analysis with ADS or Microwave Office * 2+ years experience performing analysis with HFSS or CST studio * 2+ years experience with common RF lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and network analyzers. ## Preferred Skills and Experience: * Masters degree in electrical engineering with a focus on Radio Frequency Hardware design * Experience designing PCBAs with high speed interfaces such as DDR and/or ethernet * Experience designing RF PCBAs (LNAs, Power Amplifiers, couplers, feed networks or similar). * Experience designing medium-complexity switch mode power supplies (buck, buck-boost, flyback). * Familiarity with common interfaces for networking test equipment (SCPI, VISA, HiSlip, LXI, RESTful API) and basic knowledge of underlying network stack (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP). * 2+ years experience working on embedded Linux based systems (especially buildroot based) * 2+ years experience with Python, Go, or C/C++ development. ## Additional Requirements: * Some travel may be required * Role is in-person, 5 days a week. * Weekend work is neither required nor expected.
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