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Staff Electrical Engineer
The Electric Plant
San Francisco, CA
- $225,000 to $245,000 USD / year
We are hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to own the sensing and signal-acquisition platform at the core of our product. This is a full electronic stack role spanning analog design,…
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Electrical Engineer III
Insight Global
Petaluma, CA
- $100,000 to $153,000 USD / year
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Senior Electrical Engineer - Test Hardware & Validation
ATOMS Careers page
San Francisco, CA
- $139,000 to $162,000 USD / year
We are seeking a Hardware Test & Validation Engineer to own the testing requirements, validation strategy, and custom test hardware for our custom PCBs. In this role, you will design the…
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Senior Electrical Engineer - Test Hardware & Validation
Pronto
San Francisco, CA
- $139,000 to $162,000 USD / year
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Electrical Engineer
Raydar
San Francisco, CA
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Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Gradient Robotics
San Francisco, CA
- $145,000 to $230,000 USD / year
We’re looking for a Senior Power Electronics Engineer to own the electrical and power architecture of Gradient’s robots: how they’re powered, how they sense, and how they’re controlled.…
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Electrical Engineer
Verne Robotics
San Francisco, CA
- $140,000 to $250,000 USD / year
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Electrical Engineer
Seneca
Sausalito, CA
- $100,000 to $160,000 USD / year
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Electrical Engineer
GPAC
Napa, CA
- $105,000 to $125,000 USD / year
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Electrical Engineer
GPAC
San Francisco, CA
- $105,000 to $125,000 USD / year
A reputable, multi-discipline Civil Engineering firm located in the metro area is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer, with a passion to deliver excellence! This firm works hard to…
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Electrical Engineer
GPAC
San Francisco, CA
- $125,000 to $155,000 USD / year
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Senior Controls & Electrical Engineer
Heirloom Carbon
Brisbane, CA
- $145,000 to $185,000 USD / year
As a Senior Controls Engineer at Heirloom, you’ll be responsible for developing industrial automation solutions that support our research, engineering, and scaled commercial deployments.…
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Electrical Engineer, Power Generation
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA
- $257,000 to $327,000 USD / year
We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to design and integrate on-site power-generation systems for large AI data center campuses. You will work across generation, substations,…
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Electronics Test Engineer II
Form Energy, Inc
Berkeley, CA
- $97,221 to $121,518 USD / year
Must have robust board-level and system-level validation experience
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Senior Antenna Engineer
Astranis
San Francisco, CA
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Electrical Design Engineer
Premier Global Links
San Francisco, CA
- $140,000 to $160,000 USD / year
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San Francisco, CA
- $90,000 to $150,000 USD / year
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Senior Electrical Engineer
Kennedy/Jenks Consulting
San Francisco, CA
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Electrical Engineer
Hinge Health
San Francisco, CA
- $135,200 to $185,900 USD / year
Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day
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Electrical Engineer
Raydar
San Francisco, CA
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Electrical Engineer
VU Talent Partners
San Francisco, CA
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Control Systems Engineer
Hypothesis.run
San Francisco, CA
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Electronics Engineer
Ulysses Inc.
San Francisco, CA
- $135,000 to $180,000 USD / year
We’re hiring an Electrical Engineer to join our already exceptional EE team to play a critical part in designing, prototyping, and bringing to production the embedded electronics that power…
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Electrical Engineer II
PAE CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC
San Francisco, CA
- $96,800 to $118,200 USD / year
PAE is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Electrical Engineer II to join our team in a hybrid work environment in our San Francisco office. This role is designed for an engineer with a…

Tacit

System Electrical Engineer

San Francisco, CA, United States

$180,000 to $220,000 USD / year

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Pay: $180,000 to $220,000 USD / year
Experience: 3+ years of experience in electrical engineering, hardware design, or hardware validation.
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 21, 2026

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About Tacit

We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. We are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Greylock Partners, with a founding team from Stanford, BrainGate, Oculus, and Tesla. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a System Electrical Engineer to validate, debug, and improve the core electrical blocks of our next-generation sensing hardware. You'll sit between design and validation: you'll bring up prototypes on the bench, find out how each architectural block really performs, root-cause what doesn't, and feed those findings back into the next schematic and layout.

Your work spans the product from prototype to mass production: bring-up, design updates, and test implementation. The goal of each design cycle is better performance, lower power, and smaller area. As our products move toward production, there is room to grow into supporting builds with our contract manufacturers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Bench validation and characterization
Bring up prototype boards and get them to a stable, measurable state.
Write and run validation plans for architectural blocks: power rails, battery charging and power management, high-speed interfaces, sensor front ends, and mixed-signal paths.
Characterize blocks across voltage, load, temperature, and operating modes, and compare results against design intent.
Debug and root cause
Run systematic debug across analog, digital, and power domains using oscilloscopes, logic and protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, and current probes.
Root-cause issues such as rail noise and ripple, signal integrity problems, noise coupling into sensitive analog paths, unexpected resets, and excess power draw.
Separate real failures from measurement artifacts, and back conclusions with data.
Design improvement for performance, power, and area
Turn validation findings into concrete schematic and layout changes for the next prototype cycle.
Own schematic and PCB updates for the blocks you validate, working with the senior hardware team on architecture and component choices.
Find savings in power consumption, quiescent current, board area, and component count without losing performance.
Test implementation, yield, and reliability
Build repeatable bench test setups and automate measurements where it speeds up learning.
Use statistics across units and builds to set limits, spot outliers, and track yield.
Run reliability and stress testing, and feed failure findings back into the design. Over time, help turn bench tests into production tests and support builds with contract manufacturers.
Cross-functional work
Work closely with mechanical, firmware, and software engineers on bring-up, debug, and design trade-offs.
Write clear validation reports and debug summaries that drive design decisions.

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in electrical engineering, hardware design, or hardware validation.
Strong EE fundamentals: analog and mixed-signal circuits, power conversion and regulation, signal integrity, power integrity, and grounding.
Strong hands-on debug skills, with a track record of root-causing hardware issues on real boards.
Hands-on experience with board bring-up and lab instruments such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, and probes.
Experience with schematic capture and PCB design for multi-layer boards, in Altium Designer or an equivalent tool.
Working knowledge of high-speed interfaces such as USB, Quad-SPI, MIPI, or DDR, and low-speed buses such as I2C, SPI, and UART.
Experience with power and battery systems: DC-DC converters, LDOs, PMICs, and Li ion/Li-poly charging.
Ability to write clear validation plans and reports.
Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup where engineers own large parts of the hardware.

STRONG CANDIDATES MAY HAVE

Python or similar scripting for lab automation and instrument control (PyVISA, SCPI).
Embedded firmware experience in C/C++, enough to add test hooks and diagnostics.
Background in signal integrity and power integrity simulation, using tools such as HyperLynx, Ansys SIwave, or Cadence Sigrity.
Familiarity with RF circuits and components.
Experience with wearable, body-worn, or battery-powered devices with tight power, size, and thermal limits.
Experience with low-noise analog front ends, biopotential sensing, or other sensitive sensor interfaces.
Statistical analysis of test data across units and builds, such as yield, limits, and outlier detection.
Production test exposure: test fixtures, boundary scan/JTAG, ICT, or calibration flows. Experience supporting EVT, DVT, or PVT builds with contract manufacturers.
Familiarity with EMI/EMC pre-compliance testing and reliability or environmental testing.

SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE

Each prototype is brought up quickly, and its key blocks are measured and understood.
Hardware issues are caught early and root-caused with data, not guesswork.
Each design cycle shows measurable gains in performance, power, or board area.
Validation plans cover the real technical risks, and bench results match how the product behaves in use.
Bench tests become repeatable and automated, ready to carry into production test as builds ramp.

BENEFITS

Competitive equity package
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
Company size: 40-60 people
Unlimited PTO
Visa sponsorship
4% 401k matching

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