Job Description
Job Summary
We are seeking an Electrical Engineer for a direct hire opportunity in Huntington Beach, CA, supporting advanced industrial equipment, precision optical inspection systems, and aerospace-grade hardware. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys hands-on hardware design, PCB development, lab testing, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype through production.
This opportunity offers a collaborative engineering environment with strong teamwork across hardware, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing groups. Candidates can expect supportive technical leadership, meaningful product ownership, and the chance to contribute to complex systems where quality, reliability, and precision matter.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lay out multi-layer PCBs for advanced industrial and electronic hardware systems.
- Perform schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, lab testing, and prototype debugging.
- Conduct signal integrity and power integrity analysis to support reliable system performance.
- Support test fixture design, production validation, and manufacturing readiness activities.
- Collaborate with firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams to resolve design and integration challenges.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation, including schematics, BOMs, assembly drawings, and test procedures.
Compensation and Benefits
- Direct hire opportunity.
- Salary range: $90,000 to $145,000 per year.
- Role details reference $135,000 per year.
- Location: Huntington Beach, CA.
- Work environment includes a warehouse setting with moderate noise, no air conditioning or heating, approximately 30 percent standing or walking and 70 percent desk work, and occasional lifting up to 25 lbs.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans
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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.
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Additional Skills
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Design and validate electrical systems for industrial hardware and advanced electronic equipment.
- Lead PCB schematic capture, layout, bring-up, and troubleshooting activities.
- Support system integration across hardware, firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.
- Develop and maintain engineering documentation for production and test support.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 7 to 10 years of hands-on experience designing, testing, and validating electrical systems.
- Strong experience with Altium Designer or similar PCB design and layout tools.
- Solid understanding of multi-layer PCB design, signal integrity, grounding, shielding, and power integrity best practices.
- Experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and hipot testers.
- Background in power supply and DC-DC switching design.
- Familiarity with embedded systems and basic scripting, with Python experience helpful.
- Knowledge of EMC and safety compliance concepts, including CE requirements.
- Experience with wire harnesses, connectors, and electrical integration for production hardware.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with high-speed interfaces such as MIPI CSI-2 or USB3 Vision.
- Background supporting imaging systems, optical inspection equipment, or aerospace-grade hardware.
- Experience developing test fixtures and supporting production validation in a manufacturing environment.
Job Tags
Temporary work