Senior Electrical Engineer

About SimpliSafe

We’re embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday – working together in person and choosing where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.

What You’ll Do:

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Contribute to the full lifecycle design of security focused products, owning specific subsystems or domains end-to-end.
• Identify and analyze cross-functional tradeoffs between design alternatives, including impact on performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including mechanical, firmware, industrial design, sourcing, and product management.
• Execute the product development process from early-stage concept, through prototyping, testing, and production, to ensure products meet requirements, cost, and schedule targets.
• Lead prototype development and testing, including designing test strategies to validate product performance and resolve issues.
• Lead design reviews and discussions with suppliers and global manufacturing partners to optimize designs for mass production.
• Lead the communication and design execution with global manufacturing partners.
• Contribute to the Technical Requirements Document in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to product architecture and system-level design, with deep ownership of your assigned subsystems and ensuring alignment with product requirements.
• Translate high-level product and system requirements into detailed, actionable tasks and deliverables within your domain.
• Participate in risk identification activities and escalate issues appropriately to program leadership.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, sensors, and manufacturing processes to inform product design and innovation.
• Drive your areas of ownership forward with a strong sense of urgency.
• Provide technical input to product roadmap discussions.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, with at least 2 years working on consumer products.
• Experience optimizing designs for battery operation with very low power usage.
• Proven experience contributing to the design and development of complex systems from concept to mass production, with ownership of subsystems or components.
• Experience working with product management to understand the data-driven "why" and to be the voice of the customer.
• Strong communication, EQ, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience owning design validation plans, including defining test coverage across electrical, RF, connectivity, audio, and imaging subsystems in coordination with domain specialists and quality.
• Ability to contribute at both the systems engineering level and as a hands-on technical contributor.
• Experience in embedded systems design including UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, SDIO, MIPI, etc.
• Experience 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.

The target annual base pay range for this role is $106,100 to $141,500

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.