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About the Role
First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. We are seeking a Sr. Hardware Development Electrical Engineer to own electrical boards end-to-end, from requirements and system trades through to production release and test.
Responsibilities
- Own electrical boards end to end: requirements and system trades, architecture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, debug, documentation, production release, and test.
- Perform your own PCB layout, including part placement and routing.
- Design mixed-signal boards for harsh environments (salt air, heat, vibration) including controllers, gate drive, sensing and instrumentation, power supplies, and interface/communications boards.
- Build test fixtures, bring up boards, and document findings for future revisions.
- Participate in board manufacturing and field deployment, including failure analysis.
- Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, firmware, test, and supply chain teams.
- Critically evaluate requirements and adapt designs based on data.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
- 5+ years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
- Proven experience taking new boards from schematic to production, including layout.
- Proficiency in at least one ECAD tool (KiCad preferred; Altium or similar acceptable).
- Ability to manage a shared library and release process.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Skills
- Mixed-signal layout
- Processors or FPGAs
- Ethernet
- High-speed serial
- DDR
- I2C/SPI
- Op-amps
- ADCs/DACs
- Power supply design
- Power electronics layout
- Switching converters
- Gate drive
- Current sensing
- Magnetics placement
- EMI/EMC-aware design
- Environmental or compliance testing
- Bench and field electronics debugging and testing
- Python
- C/C++
- Defense hardware experience
- Aerospace hardware experience
- Maritime hardware experience
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics
- Master's degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline (Nice to Have)
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000–$220,000 base
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
About the Company
- First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era.
- Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy.
- Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production.
Equal Opportunity
- FOE is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with FOE is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.