Senior / Staff Electrical Engineer, Hardware (Wearable Consumer Device)

Note: This is a full-time, on-site opportunity in San Francisco, CA (no remote).

About:

Our investment is an early-stage BCI wearable tech startup employing an innovative mix of generative AI with patent-pending breakthroughs in hw/sw for SOTA electronic consumer devices. They are seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to own major portions of the electrical system from early architecture through production, working across compact, high-density, battery-powered products.

What you’ll do

• Lead electrical architecture and board-level design for mixed-signal hardware systems
• Own schematics, component selection, system partitioning, and design reviews
• Design high-density multi-layer PCBAs with controlled impedance and fine-pitch components
• Work across sensors, compute, connectivity, power, and battery systems
• Lead bring-up, validation, debugging, and root-cause analysis
• Support EVT, DVT, PVT, DFM/DFT, manufacturing partners, and production ramp
• Collaborate closely with mechanical, firmware, software, and manufacturing teams

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years in electrical or hardware engineering
• Experience shipping consumer electronics, ideally compact, wearable, or battery-powered products
• Strong PCB design experience, including HDI, BGAs, SI/PI, and high-speed interfaces
• Solid analog, mixed-signal, power architecture, and DC-DC converter experience
• Hands-on lab validation experience with scopes, logic analyzers, probes, and related tools
• Startup-ready ownership style and comfort working across the full hardware stack

Nice to have

• Wearables or body-worn device experience
• Altium or similar PCB tool experience
• Manufacturing test, automation, Python, embedded firmware, EMI/EMC, or thermal experience

SF Bay Area preferred. Senior IC role at an early-stage company building a category-defining hardware product.

About Us:

Greylock is an early-stage investor in hundreds of remarkable companies including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Workday, Cloudera, Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Coinbase, Palo Alto Networks, among others. More can be found about us here: https://greylock.com/

How We Work:

We are full-time, salaried employees of Greylock and provide free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments. We will contact anyone who looks like a potential match--requesting to schedule a call with you immediately.

Due to the selective nature of this service and the volume of applicants we typically receive from our job postings, a follow-up email will not be sent until a match is identified with one of our investments.

Please note: We are not recruiting for any roles within Greylock at this time. This job posting is for direct employment with a startup in our portfolio.