Senior Electrical Design Engineer (EE), Smart Home

About the Company:

Founded by ex-Apple Product and Engineering leaders, Level is redefining the smart home with technology that is simple, intuitive, useful, and invisible. We take a unique approach to designing products - one that shifts focus from what we make to how we make it and who we make it for. It’s an approach that results in elegant and unique solutions, raising the bar for the entire smart home ecosystem.

Now part of the Assa Abloy family, a global leader in access solutions, Level is positioned to accelerate innovation and expand our reach even further. This partnership strengthens our ability to deliver world-class smart home experiences while maintaining the vision and design excellence that have always set us apart.

About the Role:

As a Senior Electrical Design Engineer, you will drive architecture and design and choose tools and technologies to meet and exceed the requirements in categories such as reducing power consumption and battery life, BOM cost, physical size, RF performance, and usability. You will work with cross-functional teams to prototype, implement, validate and drive products to mass production. We are always looking for ways to improve existing products and in this role, you’ll be able to bring new, elegant solutions and novel insights to the table.

Responsibilities:

1. Drive the creation of products from prototype to mass production
2. Design high-level hardware system architecture and schematics
3. Oversee and participate in the build, assembly and test of initial product prototypes
4. Board bring-up and debugging, root cause analysis and corrective action
5. Interact with mechanical and firmware engineers on a near-daily basis to implement requirements, review MIL and drive to achieve solutions.
6. Maintain BOMs, schematics, layouts and other relevant documentation

Required Qualifications:

1. 4+ years of experience as an electrical engineer, having successfully shipped products
2. Excellent communication skills and ability to present information and explain
3. Strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals, both digital and analog
4. Experience with schematic entry and PCB layout software
5. Experience with low power electronics and optimizing power consumption
6. Skilled at using lab benchtop equipment (power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power meters, battery analyzers)
7. Experience hand-building & testing prototypes (hand soldered / reflow)
8. Self-motivated, capable of working quickly and independently on small team, and excited to solve complex problems
9. Excellent communicator, including to non-technical audiences

Great to Have, But Not Strictly Required:

1. Experience with ME 3D data formats, 3D printer experience
2. Familiarity with design for ESD & test procedures
3. RF-related design experience or familiarity: BLE / LoRa / WiFi layout & matching
4. Cadence / Allegro layout experience
5. Basic Python scripting / firmware skills for testing