It’s the perfect time

Join us to build the world’s most advanced touch technology!

About Sensel

Sensel is a VC-funded startup located in Sunnyvale, CA. We’re enabling people to enjoy more expressive interaction with their devices using the world’s most advanced touch technology. Our first product, the Morph, won “Best in Show” at SXSW 2017, and is currently shipping to customers worldwide. We’re integrating our pressure-responsive sensors into trackpads, displays, and everything else that involves human interaction. Sensel is a progressive and open-minded meritocracy and we have big plans. We know that a diverse team is fundamental to innovation and long term success, so if you’re smart, good at what you do, and nice to work with, we’d love to talk to you about opportunities!

Openings

Senior Electrical Engineer

Do you thrive on innovating for consumer electronics hardware? Are you an experienced and creative System Engineering Lead? Come help us and lead electrical development efforts for Sensel’s product lines, based on the world’s most advanced touch technology.

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Responsibilities

Work with Product Management to define features of touch sensor prototypes and products
Create schematics and layout PCBs using Altium
Develop and run tests to validate functionality of new features prior to release
Work with fab and assembly suppliers to get boards fabricated and assembled, locally and overseas
Work with senior engineers, supply chain managers and suppliers to choose and procure parts
Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues in the factory and from the field
Develop functional tests to support factory builds & work with contract manufacturers to resolve test failures
Collaborate with mechanical engineers and firmware developers to create industry-leading touch devices
Participate in EMC and Regulatory process
Assist with development of custom batteries for future products, support existing battery in production

Requirements

Skilled in board design, signal integrity, and analog circuitry
Have designed one successful product from concept through mass production
Experience in selecting components & creating electrical schematics and layout
Understand board & system level communication interfaces (UART, I2C, SPI, USB)
Knowledge and experience using standard electrical test tools including bench power suppliers, oscilloscopes, digital multimeters and function generators.
Understanding and experience with PCB manufacturing process, DFM rules, PCBA assembly process and DFA for SMT
Experience designing systems with consideration for reliability testing, including HALT and HASS
Understanding of common factory tests, including flying probe, X-ray and ICT
Experience generating electrical bills of material
Ability to manage projects and deliver according to a schedule
BS degree in Electrical Engineering

Bonus Skills

Experience with touch technology, mobile devices, power and battery management
Experience with EMC testing and best design practices and resolution of issues arising from regulatory testing
BLE and RF system design principles
Resistive force sensors
HDI designs and flexible PCB

At Sensel, you will be working on the
world’s most advanced interactive
touch technology

Sensel technology is powerful and widely applicable

Morph wowed the SXSW crowd in 2017, winning best in show, and was named one of the best MIDI controllers of 2019 by MusicRadar. It’s shipping worldwide, is just the beginning and the first commercially available example of what can be done with Sensel technology.

Sensel technology has applications today, in touch pads and displays

Wherever you want to control or interact with electronics or other objects, there is an opportunity for Sensel technology, which is compatible with the natural human impulse to use interactive touch to explore and address the world.

Sensel technology will have ever-increasing applications over years to come, including wildly different form factors – non-planar, human shaped, glove, wrist, distributed, large area….and different domains – notebooks, mobile, automotive, industrial, medical, and more yet to discover.

Our Opportunity

There are lots of fun things for engineers, designers and developers to work on, including mechanical, electrical, user experience, materials, algorithms, firmware, software, manufacturing, human factors and more, as we make our technology ever more responsive, expressive, miniaturized and create a new language of pressure-aware touch.

We’re focussed on getting things done and building a new world of expression, not on limiting or micro-managing each other.

It’s a rare chance to get in on the ground floor of a successful startup with a major customer list.

Come help us invent and discover a gorgeously expressive and natural way to interact with our devices, to reduce fatigue, increase user satisfaction, adapt to changing needs, be universally accessible, and delight us all!