About this role
Job title: Electrical Engineer
About the Role Formlabs is seeking an Electrical Engineer to lead the electronics design of 3D printing and related products, bridging analog and digital worlds. You will design boards from concept to prototype and mature them to mass production, develop firmware to control complex electromechanical systems, and deliver elegant solutions to real-world problems.
What You'll Do
- Lead the electronics design of 3D printing and related products
- Full-stack design, able to go from concept to initial prototype and mature the design to mass production
- Ownership of designs throughout the product life cycle
- Make EE architecture decisions and tradeoffs while observing all facets of a design, including cost, reliability, flexibility, etc to achieve business goals
- Ensure soundness of designs by performing necessary engineering calculations and experiments
- Design for wired and wireless connectivity options such as Wifi, Bluetooth, Ethernet
- Design that involves physical sensors and actuators
- Write basic code to test the functionality of designs
- Hands-on experience with prototyping, validating, debugging, and reworking boards
What We're Looking For
- A minimum of 2 years of experience designing and debugging electronics
- An electrical engineering generalist, comfortable with analog and digital design, PCB layout, validation, and debugging techniques
- Basic familiarity with embedded systems or another software engineering discipline
- Familiarity with consumer electronics standards and certifications
- Experience in the consumer electronics industry
- Working knowledge of English: able to read and write documentation and present technical ideas verbally
Nice to Have
- Portfolio encouraged