Merge Labs
Electrical Engineer
$225K–$260K
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
About the job
Own the architecture, development, validation, and productization of electronics systems and scientific instrumentation for brain-computer interface research.
What you'll do
- Design and verify complex electronics, including PCBAs, mixed-signal systems, and ASIC/FPGA integrations.
- Build automated test infrastructure and reusable instrumentation for repeatable scientific measurements.
- Manage manufacturing transfer and vendor relationships; establish engineering practices and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Track record of personally taking multiple hardware designs from architecture through bring-up, verification, and manufacturing transfer.
- Advanced mixed-signal expertise spanning low-noise analog and/or power, high-speed digital integration, and system-level design.
- Practical proficiency in Python and C/C++ for hardware bring-up, characterization, and test automation.
- Experience working with vendors or contract manufacturers through release, test development, yield, and reliability issues.
Nice to have
- Experience with ultrasound, imaging, scientific instrumentation, lab automation, medical devices, or implantables.
- Experience with large-channel-count acquisition systems.
Pay
$225K – $260K USD base salary
Tools
ASICs, FPGAs, MCUs, Python, C/C++, PCBAs
AI focus
The electronics support brain-computer interfaces that integrate with advanced AI; no specific AI development work is stated.
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