Founding Electrical Engineer
Hybrid (San Mateo, CA)$170k - $200kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Founding Electrical Engineer for Nine Fives, a startup producing RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones. In-person, full-time role led by the founding team to own products end-to-end with equity and benefits.
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
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
Skills
Required:LinuxEmbedded LinuxPCB designSchematic design
Nice to have:GoPythonFirmwarePrototyping
Benefits
- equity & benefits (as per description)
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nine Fives
Simple, Networked, Driverless, RF Test Equipment
RadarTelecommunicationsElectronics
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