Impulse Labs
Staff Systems Electrical Engineer- Hardware Development
$170K–$185K
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience, or 8+ with an MS; includes at least two products from concept through mass production.
About the job
Own the electrical architecture of Impulse’s product line from concept through certification and production, including system interfaces, reliability, compliance, partner engineering, and the transition toward in-house design and manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Define system architecture, requirements, interfaces, and platform reuse; lead electrical design reviews.
- Own electrical reliability, certification, production test architecture, and technical coordination with JDM and CM partners.
- Guide build-versus-buy decisions and develop internal engineering tools, including AI-assisted tooling.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of relevant experience, or 8+ with an MS, designing electronics shipped at volume; at least two products taken from concept through mass production, with direct ownership of EVT/DVT/PVT gates, build support, and production test yield at ramp.
- Demonstrated system-level architecture ownership, including partitioning, interface definition, and requirement flowdown; experience with BOM cost/COGS targets, cost-down, and second-sourcing.
- Analog and mixed-signal expertise, embedded software fluency, and experience with EMC and product safety certification.
- Experience with safety and compliance design, including mains isolation, creepage/clearance, and standards such as UL/IEC 60730; comfort using and building AI tools.
Nice to have
- Battery systems, BMS, or energy storage integration; power electronics; induction heating, motor drive, or other high-power switching applications.
- Platform or product-family architecture, consumer appliances, Python and SCPI scripting, or building in-house hardware capability.
Pay
$170,000 - $185,000 (base salary); $170K – $185K (compensation; basis not specified)
Tools
LLMs, Python, SCPI, UL, IEC, FCC, UL/IEC 60730, ADC
AI focus
Use and build AI tools, including LLMs and agentic tooling, for engineering analysis, scripting, design review, documentation, and internal tooling.
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