Senior Electrical Engineer

Sunnyvale, CAfull timeOn Site

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$180k–$297k

H1B: no

Scout AI The Senior Electrical Engineer at Scout AI designs, brings up, and validates electronics for various vehicle platforms, including rapid prototyping and production designs. The role involves working closely with mechanical, software, and firmware engineers to ensure accurate and stable sensor data.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer who is excited about working on a variety of different projects, designing, bringing up and validating electronics for a range of vehicle platforms. This role will include a mix of rapid prototyping electronics for standing up new platforms and longer term production designs for better manufacturability, better performance, smaller form factor and ease of integration.
You’ll work with experienced engineers across hardware, robotics, and AI to ensure sensor data is accurate, stable, and production-ready. We’re a startup. You’ll be moving fast, context-switching daily, and helping define the culture and process as we go. This is a rare opportunity to come in early and architect the future of defense.
Design, bring up, and implement PCBAs
Define system electrical architecture
Work closely with mechanical engineers to effectively integrate electronics into systems
Work closely with software and firmware engineers to ensure ease of bring up and implementation
Procure electrical components, PCBs, and PCBAs
Assemble and rework PCBAs and basic wiring harnesses
Work with voltage regulators, microcontrollers, compute SoMs, mixed and high speed signals
Troubleshoot integration issues with software and mechanical engineers
Contribute to building the team and shaping the road map

Qualification

8+ years of experience designingInterest in roboticsMust be a UMay be expected to obtain and hold a USee your work deployed on real systems

Required

8+ years of experience designing, testing and ramping up manufacturing of PCBAs
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
Strong fundamentals in schematic capture, layout and circuit design
Strong skills with PCBA design tools such as Altium Designer
Strong skills with electronic test equipment (Oscilloscopes, Bench Supplies, DMM, etc.)
Experience working with hardware interfaces like SPI, I2C, or UART and high speed interfaces such as PCIe, MIPI CSI
Strong debugging mindset and attention to detail
Interest in robotics, embedded systems, or hardware-adjacent software

Preferred

Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Passion about defense of the United States and its allies
May be expected to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
Work on the world’s most important frontier, ensuring U.S. and allied dominance in the age of intelligent machines
Be a core part of a team building the first defense-specific robotic foundation model
Collaborate with some of the top engineers in autonomy, AI, and national security
See your work deployed on real systems
Help define the future of intelligent defense systems

Benefits

Dental
Vision
PTO
Equity/RSU

Company

Scout AI

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