This hands-on Electrical Engineer role focuses on supporting and advancing PCBA-based product designs that are in late-stage development as well as contributing to new hardware initiatives. You will work across the full product lifecycle, from schematic capture and PCB layout through board bring-up, testing, EMI/EMC validation, and documentation, while owning defined portions of projects and contributing independently with minimal ramp-up time.

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Responsibilities

• Support and own electrical design work across multiple PCBA-based products throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Contribute to schematic capture and PCB layout, providing practical layout input and making design modifications as needed.
• Assist with board bring-up, troubleshooting, and late-stage design validation for production hardware.
• Act as the primary electrical engineer on assigned portions of projects, owning specific sections of board bring-up and electrical functionality.
• Develop, update, and maintain clear and accurate design documentation for new and existing electrical designs.
• Support EMI and EMC testing, including coordinating and accompanying products to third-party test houses and working through test results and compliance issues.
• Provide a detailed second review of existing designs during final validation phases to identify potential issues and improvements.
• Use standard lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and logic analyzers to debug, validate, and characterize hardware performance.
• Collaborate closely with other electrical engineers and cross-functional team members, sharing troubleshooting insights and contributing to design decisions.
• Take ownership of assigned projects from start to finish, ensuring designs move successfully from concept through validation and into production.

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Essential Skills

• Hands-on experience working through the full product lifecycle for hardware products, from initial design through validation, documentation, and production.
• Practical PCBA experience with real production hardware, including board bring-up and lab-based debugging.
• Experience with schematic capture and exposure to PCB layout, with the ability to support and modify designs independently.
• Comfort working independently and contributing immediately with minimal onboarding, taking responsibility for defined project sections.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset, with the ability to diagnose and resolve electrical issues on complex boards.
• Collaborative approach when working with other electrical engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Solid understanding of digital hardware fundamentals, including digital signals, microcontroller interfacing with external circuitry, and basic communication protocols such as I²C.
• Practical analog and power fundamentals, including signal integrity and signal switching, simple amplifier circuits and gain stages, protection circuitry, and transistor basics such as NPN devices.
• Experience driving PWM-controlled loads, such as heaters or similar components.
• Ability to create, maintain, and interpret clear technical and electrical documentation.
• Proficiency using standard lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, and related test instruments.
• Ability to take projects from start to finish, understanding both analog and digital fundamentals and full product development flows.

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Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Prior experience with Altium Designer for schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Exposure to EMI and EMC test house environments, including supporting compliance testing and troubleshooting failures.
• Experience working with complex, multi-layer boards, even if PCB layout responsibility was partial.
• Comfortable in fast-paced hardware development environments with multiple concurrent projects.
• Familiarity with C programming as it relates to digital hardware and microcontroller-based systems, even if firmware development is not a primary responsibility.
• Knowledge of digital circuit design, analog circuit design, and general digital hardware principles.
• Ability to work effectively in a lab-centric environment and adapt quickly to evolving design and test priorities.

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Work Environment

This role is 100% on-site at a hardware-focused facility in the Portland, OR area (SW 72nd Ave). You will work in a lab environment that relies heavily on standard electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, and related tools to support board bring-up, debugging, and validation activitie