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Electrical Engineer

Merge Labs· Device
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San Francisco Bay Area$225k - $260kFull-timePosted 9mo ago

About the role

Principal/Staff Electrical Engineer role focused on architecture, design, validation, and productization of core electronics systems for brain-computer interface research; collaboration with scientists and platform engineers to create calibrated, reusable electronics and automated validation workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, simulate, lay out, bring up, and verify complex electronics integrating custom ASICs, FPGAs, MCUs, high-speed digital interfaces, low-noise analog, clocks/triggers, and power delivery.
  • Own critical PCBAs and system-level electrical architecture, including SI/PI, grounding, clocking, EMC/EMI, thermal/electrical interactions, interconnect, and DFM/DFT tradeoffs.
  • Develop and deploy automated test and characterization infrastructure, including custom test hardware, integration firmware, and Python/C/C++ tooling for bring-up, verification, data capture, and manufacturing test.
  • Build scientist-facing electronic instrumentation—signal-conditioning modules, calibration fixtures, sensor/actuator interfaces, trigger/clock distribution, reference standards, custom DAQ/test boards, and other reusable hardware that turns expert-dependent bench setups into repeatable workflows.
  • Define quantitative performance and acceptance criteria for those systems, including noise, gain, linearity, bandwidth, dynamic range, timing skew/jitter, channel variation, drift, calibration, and measurement uncertainty as appropriate; validate with data and document procedures so another user can reproduce the result.
  • Own the technical relationship with design vendors and PCBA assembly/test houses, defining DFT strategies, inspection/test criteria, yield targets, failure-analysis loops, and production release requirements.
  • Collaborate closely with Mechanical, ASIC/FPGA, Firmware, Software/Platform, Clinical, and scientists to ensure electrical systems meet device-performance, measurement-quality, usability, and experimental requirements.
  • Mentor engineers and establish best practices for design reviews, documentation, verification, test automation, and cross-functional hardware integration.

Qualifications

  • Deep experience designing complex electronic systems and a track record of personally taking multiple hardware designs through architecture, board bring-up, debug, verification, and manufacturing transfer.
  • Advanced mixed-signal expertise: strong low-noise analog and/or power fundamentals combined with high-speed digital integration, clocking, SI/PI, grounding, and dense-system judgment.
  • Strong hands-on debugging instincts and comfort using oscilloscopes, spectrum/network analyzers, logic analyzers, electronic loads, precision sources/meters, and custom test setups to isolate root cause.
  • Practical proficiency in Python and C/C++ for hardware bring-up, automated characterization, test control, and integration.
  • A systems mindset toward instrumentation: calibration, uncertainty, repeatability, observability, documentation, and reproducibility of measurements.
  • Experience delivering manufacturable designs and working directly with vendors/CMs through release, test development, yield, and reliability issues.
  • Empathy for scientists and other technical users; desire to build durable instruments or platforms rather than temporary fixes.
  • Bonus: experience with ultrasound, imaging, scientific instrumentation, lab automation, medical devices, implantables, or large-channel-count acquisition systems.

Skills

Required:Electrical designMixed-signal analogDigital designPythonC/C++Documentation and reproducibility

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Compensation: $225K – $260K
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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