About the role
About the role:
This is a full time salaried position. Compensation is $170,000 - $200,000/yr + equity & benefits.
As a Founding Electrical Engineer you will own products from cradle to grave. You will work with our founding team to develop the next generation of electronic test equipment.
Responsibilities:
- Define product requirements and synthesize into schematics
- Perform component selection and BOM optimization
- Schematic design and routing for digital and analog PCBs
- Perform bringup and characterization of prototype PCBAs
- Write and maintain a common embedded linux software stack across products
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar.
- 3+ years experience with Altium, KiCAD, or other industry standard EDA tool sets.
- 2+ years experience performing analysis with ADS or Microwave Office
- 2+ years experience performing analysis with HFSS or CST studio
- 2+ years experience with common RF lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and network analyzers.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Masters degree in electrical engineering with a focus on Radio Frequency Hardware design
- Experience designing PCBAs with high speed interfaces such as DDR and/or ethernet
- Experience designing RF PCBAs (LNAs, Power Amplifiers, couplers, feed networks or similar).
- Experience designing medium-complexity switch mode power supplies (buck, buck-boost, flyback).
- Familiarity with common interfaces for networking test equipment (SCPI, VISA, HiSlip, LXI, RESTful API) and basic knowledge of underlying network stack (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP).
- 2+ years experience working on embedded Linux based systems (especially buildroot based)
- 2+ years experience with Python, Go, or C/C++ development.
Additional Requirements:
- Some travel may be required
- Role is in-person, 5 days a week.
- Weekend work is neither required nor expected.
About Nine Fives
RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
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Job details
Salary
$170,000 - $200,000
Equity
0.5% - 2%
Location
San Mateo, CA
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
