What You\'ll Do: Primary Responsibilities Include:
- Contribute to the full lifecycle design of security-focused products, from concept through production.
- Analyze cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale, and raise them to senior engineers or leads.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including mechanical, firmware, industrial design, sourcing, and product management.
- Support the product development process from early-stage concept, through prototyping, testing, and production, helping ensure products meet requirements, cost, and schedule targets.
- Develop and execute prototype testing, including designing test strategies to validate product performance and help resolve issues.
- Participate in design reviews and discussions with suppliers and global manufacturing partners to help optimize designs for mass production.
- Flag resource or knowledge gaps to leads and engage the right subject-matter experts when needed.
- Support communication and design execution with global manufacturing partners.
- Contribute to the Technical Requirements Document in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Support product architecture and system-level design work, ensuring alignment with product requirements, performance goals, and cross-functional constraints.
- Translate system requirements into detailed, actionable tasks and deliverables for your own scope of work.
- Support risk identification and mitigation activities within your area of the program.
- Stay current with emerging technologies, sensors, and manufacturing processes to inform product design.
- Drive your own workstreams forward with a reasonable sense of urgency.
What You\'ll Bring: - Bachelor\'s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience, ideally including some exposure to consumer products.
- Familiarity with optimizing designs for battery operation with low power usage.
- Experience contributing to the design and development of complex systems, from concept toward mass production.
- Exposure to design validation planning, including test coverage across electrical, RF, connectivity, audio, or imaging subsystems.
- Ability to work effectively both as a systems-level contributor and as a hands-on technical contributor.
- Experience in embedded systems design, including design with UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, SDIO, MIPI, etc.
- Familiarity with RF technologies including Sub-GHz, WiFi, and BLE.
- Strong preference for candidates with a demonstrated bias for action.
- Travel: Willing to travel to our manufacturing partners in China 1-3 times per year
What Values You\'ll Share- Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
- Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
- No Ego - Maintaining a \"no job too small\" attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.
- One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
- Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
- Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.
What We Offer- A mission- and values-driven culture and a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow and thrive
- A comprehensive total rewards package that supports your wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families (For more information on our total rewards please click here)
- Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that bring people together, give opportunities to network, mentor and develop, and advocate for change.
The target annual base pay range for this role is $84,900 to $113,200.
This target annual base pay range represents our good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this role. We use a market-based compensation approach to set our target annual base pay ranges and make adjustments annually. We carefully tailor individual compensation packages, including base pay, taking into consideration employees\' job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and other relevant business factors.
Beyond base pay, we offer a Total Rewards package that may include participation in our annual bonus program, equity, and other forms of compensation, in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits. More details can be found here.
We\'re committed to fair and equitable pay practices, as well as pay transparency. We regularly review our programs to ensure they remain competitive and aligned with our values.
