Senior Hardware Development Engineer
Los Altos, CA
Hardware /
Full-time /
On-site
The Afero next-generation IoT PaaS accelerates time to market, provides hardened security from device
to cloud and from factory to customers, simplifies onboarding to help maximize customer connections,
and uses data ontology to streamline machine learning. The platform is supported by elastic, multi-cloud
services that deliver reliability and responsiveness, and a new software engineering model that unifies
embedded, mobile, and cloud development. Afero has assembled world-class mobile, hardware, security,
and cloud veterans from Google, Apple, Nest, Danger, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, and Netflix. To learn
more about Afero, please visit www.afero.io.
Why You’ll Want to Work With Us
For a small team, Afero engineers collectively do a little bit of everything—from cloud applications and
infrastructure to mobile development on multiple platforms, firmware on a wide range of devices, to
board-level hardware design and implementation of secure wireless devices. Everyone here can follow
their curiosity to broader horizons. If you enjoy deep dives into assorted technology stacks to understand
end-to-end system workflows, can adapt past experiences to new solutions, and can communicate ideas
clearly among diverse audiences, Afero is a fantastic opportunity to explore and to expand your expertise.
Candidates would be expected to:
- Provide engineering expertise in the design, development, and test of secure wireless embedded systems
- Perform system design and prototyping, schematic capture and layout, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification and signal characterization of internal hardware as well as partner hardware
- Support product development all the way from inception through development and into end-product production
- Work closely with firmware engineers on bringup of new architectures and new product categories
- Be self driven
- Be comfortable working at arms length with partner companies on products
- Have the right to work legally in the USA
- Be able to travel internationally
Candidates should have the following at a minimum:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in electrical engineering or computer engineering
- 5 years of relevant work experience developing consumer or commercial products in a fast-paced environment
- Professional New Product Introduction (NPI) experience with consumer electronics, wireless devices, and/or low power embedded platforms - with at least one product shipped
- Real world experience with low power, embedded systems, signal integrity, EMI/EMC, layout, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Test (DFT)
- Demonstrated history working with OEM/ODM partners
- Ability to work in a self-directed manner with a thorough attention to detail
The following skills and experiences are also valued:
- Embedded system experience - especially small battery powered devices
- 5+ years of board level experience taking multiple new hardware designs from concept through NPI and into high-volume production
- Experience with rapid prototyping of proof of concepts by repurposing off the shelf products
- Strong understanding of embedded firmware and scripting languages a plus (C/C++ and Python in particular)
- A working knowledge of RF and antenna design
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Afero is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.
