Electrical Engineer at LMK Recruiting Solutions in Palo Alto, California, United States

Job description

• As a Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer, you will own the end-to-end design of complex electrical subsystems — from requirements capture through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring-up — on our client's flagship autonomous robotic dispensing system. This role carries significant technical ownership and offers the opportunity to shape both the hardware architecture and the team's engineering standards in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Responsibilities

• Full Lifecycle Subsystem Design: Own electrical subsystems across power distribution, motor drives, sensor interfaces, and mixed-signal circuits — from initial requirements through schematic, layout, prototyping, and production bring-up.
• Schematics & PCB Layout: Create and maintain schematics, PCB layouts, and bills of materials (BOMs), following established release processes while driving improvements to team-wide design, documentation, and test standards.
• Component Selection: Evaluate and qualify sensors, actuators, and power management components specifically for use in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Testing & Validation: Define and execute testing specifications across subsystems to guarantee intended functionality and safe operating conditions. Document findings, root causes, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
• Hardware Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve challenging hardware issues across prototyping and production phases, including signal integrity, thermal management, and EMC/EMI compliance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with firmware and mechanical engineers to co-develop interface definitions, connector pinouts, harness routing, and integration test plans.
• Design for Excellence: Apply DFM (Design for Manufacturability), DFT (Design for Testability), and supply chain considerations to ensure all designs are production-ready from day one.

Requirements

• Experience: 5–10+ years of hands-on electrical engineering experience across multiple complete product development cycles, with demonstrated technical leadership on multi-board or multi-subsystem products.
• Subsystem Ownership: A proven track record of taking complex electrical subsystems end-to-end from blank-page requirements through production bring-up.
• Domain Expertise: Deep hands-on experience designing and validating circuits for power electronics, motor control, sensor interfaces, or mixed-signal design (with broad working familiarity across the others).
• Tools & Bench Skills: Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB layout, and BOM management using industry-standard tools (Altium, KiCad, or equivalent). Strong hands-on bench skills to bring up new boards and drive issues to root cause.
• Standards & Compliance: Experience driving design reviews and contributing to team-wide engineering standards. Familiarity with compliance testing and design practices related to EMC, safety, or environmental standards.
• Documentation Habits: Strong discipline in documenting design rationale, characterization test results, and post-mortem lessons learned.

Skills

Required

• Hands-on electrical engineering
• Schematic capture
• PCB layout
• BOM management
• Altium
• KiCad
• Power electronics
• Motor control
• Sensor interfaces
• Mixed-signal design
• EMC/EMI compliance
• DFM (Design for Manufacturability)

Benefits

• Compensation: Highly competitive base salary plus meaningful, early-stage equity in an automated healthcare startup scaling nationally.
• Benefits: Full health coverage, 401(k), and unlimited PTO.
• Culture: High-visibility role working alongside world-class engineers, AI researchers, and healthcare experts with zero bureaucracy and maximum accountability.