Sr Electrical Engineer

 The Electrical Engineer is a contract to hire position that will serve as the primary technical owner for Synapse ITS Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and supercapacitor product lines. This role focuses on power electronics development, advanced energy storage management, and hardware reliability for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and traffic control infrastructure. Travel exceeding 50% is expected during the first 6–9 months to support onboarding, customer engagement, product validation, and field support activities. 

Essential Job Functions 

• Maintain and enhance electronic designs for existing product lines. 
• Own the electronic system design cycle from requirements through launch and beyond. 
• Design, develop, test and debug electronic designs. 
• Integrate, verify and validate new product designs and design changes. 
• Perform design reviews. 
• Interface with a cross-functional engineering team. 
• Support the Tech Support team with intimate product knowledge. 
• Contribute to a fun and innovative work environment. 

Education: Degree in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering 

Skills and Experience: 

• 6+ years of experience in power electronics design, embedded systems, or industrial hardware development.  
• Hands-on experience with converter/inverter topologies, switching power supplies (SMPS), magnetics design, and high-current PCB layout. 
• Familiarity with supercapacitors, battery management systems (BMS), or cell balancing architectures. 
• Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium. 
• Circuit simulation. 
• DFx Experience (e.g. Assembly, Manufacturing, Test, etc.) 
• Experience in microcontroller based digital design. 
• Experience in basic analog design. 
• Knowledge of wired communication interfaces, such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB and Ethernet. 
• Knowledge of wireless technologies, such as Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi. 
• Experience with oscilloscopes, multi-meters and similar tools, to debug and validate electronic designs. 
• Familiarity with PCBA manufacturing processes. 
• Experience qualifying designs for EMC/EMI compliance. 
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, organizational and follow-up skills. 
• Solid problem-solving skills. Highly technical, quickly grasping how things work. 
• Presents technical concepts, ideas, and information in terms that both engineers and non-engineers can understand. 
• Motivated by continuous learning and development. 
• Functions well in a small company/startup environment.  (High visibility, accountability and development velocity) 
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and collaboratively with a cross functional team. 
• Disciplined engineering approach. 
• Differentiates value added activities from waste. 
• Demonstrates systems thinking. 

Physical/Mental Requirements

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and operate an office computer/laptop most of the day.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision. 

Work Environment:  The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounter while performing this job's essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.   

Travel:  >50% for first 6-9 months on the job 

Less than 10% after the first 6 months