Senior Electrical Engineer (Hardware Design)
Hawthorne, CA$140k - $200kfull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior Electrical Engineer responsible for the design and development of custom electronics for Freeform’s AI-native metal 3D printing factory systems, applying first-principles problem solving across analog/digital hardware, embedded systems, motion control, and high-speed data handling.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly design, develop and test highly reliable electronics for metal printing
- Drive electrical architecture, product requirements, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, product management, productization, manufacturing, and test
- Challenge assumptions and learn new design approaches
- Drive component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test
- Hands-on debugging of the unexpected via the use of laboratory test equipment, custom instrumentation, and testing setups
- Model and simulate circuit designs for analysis and performance
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering discipline
- 5+ years of professional experience designing and delivering complex electrical hardware
- Broad electrical engineering background; well versed in electrical engineering fundamentals and comfortable taking a first-principles approach to solving problems
- Experience designing, developing, and testing analog and digital circuits (e.g. generating electrical schematics, analyzing circuits, breadboarding prototypes, designing circuit boards, etc.)
Skills
Required:Electrical engineering fundamentalsAnalog circuit designDigital circuit designSchematic capturePrototyping and bring-upDebugging with lab equipmentModeling and simulation
Benefits
- Significant stock option packages
- 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (premium PPO and HMO options)
- Life insurance
- Traditional and Roth 401(k)
- Relocation assistance provided
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
- Generous Paid Parental Leave and extended transition back to work for the birthing parent
- Free daily catered lunch and dinner, and fully stocked kitchenette
- Casual dress, flexible work hours, and regular catered team building events
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Freeform
Engineered for simplicity, speed and scale.
Creative manufacturing company specializing in AI-native manufacturing systems with origins linked to SpaceX engineers.
ManufacturingAIMetal 3D PrintingAutomationIndustrial
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