Senior Electrical Engineer - PCBA Design Engineer (EMC)

Location: On-site in San Diego, CA, US; a flexible workplace arrangement may be available for suitable roles for up to two days per week remotely. The role requires on-site presence for work-related events, training, and meetings, and requires work in a clean room environment.

Base annual salary: $143,063–$209,825.

Company

Develop highly reliable electronic systems and connectivity solutions that enable hirify.global's EUV source and lithography technology.

What you will do

• Lead electrical connectivity architectures covering PCBAs, cables, harnesses, racks, cabinets, and subsystem interconnects.
• Define hardware requirements, specifications, interface definitions, validation plans, design rules, and layout constraints.
• Design, review, validate, and qualify PCBAs for control, monitoring, and communication applications.
• Drive EMC/EMI compliance, signal integrity, grounding, shielding, safety, reliability, and electrical architecture trade studies.
• Lead troubleshooting, failure analysis, root-cause investigations, supplier design reviews, and technical risk mitigation.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with system, software, mechanical, manufacturing, service, support, supplier, and development teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering; an advanced degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of industry experience in electronic hardware development, including at least 5 years designing PCBAs and electronic modules for semiconductor, industrial, aerospace, medical, automotive, or similarly demanding applications.
• Strong analog and digital circuit-design fundamentals, FPGA design technology knowledge, and experience with PCBA design, schematic capture, component selection, design review, validation, and hardware release.
• Experience developing electrical connectivity solutions involving cabling, harnesses, racks, enclosures, and interconnect systems.
• Hands-on EMC/EMI design, qualification, emissions and immunity testing, plus grounding, shielding, filtering, and signal integrity strategies.
• Experience troubleshooting analog and digital electronics at board, module, and system levels using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and communication bus analyzers.
• Experience with schematic capture and hardware design tools; Capital, XPedition, Altium Designer, or similar platforms are preferred.
• Familiarity with Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, and PCIe interfaces; understanding of MTBF, HALT, ALT, and DFMEA.
• Experience with configuration management, engineering change processes, suppliers, and outsourced development partners; strong technical leadership, communication, troubleshooting, risk-management, mentoring, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• EMC certification and compliance testing to IEC, EN, CISPR, FCC, CE, or equivalent standards.
• High-speed digital PCB design and signal integrity analysis, functional safety, and hardware qualification in regulated or high-reliability environments.
• Experience with semiconductor capital equipment, industrial automation, motion control, precision mechatronic systems, or EMC-related field investigations.
• SAFe Agile methodology experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Multidisciplinary collaboration with global stakeholders, suppliers, and development partners.
• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and participation in the company 401(k) plan.
• Eight hours of vacation leave per month and 13 paid holidays annually.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available for applicants and employees with disabilities.
• Access to controlled technology requires legal authorization under United States export regulations before beginning work.

Hiring process

• New hirify.global jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.
• Applicants requiring an accommodation may contact USHR_Accommodation@hirify.global.com to initiate the accommodation process.