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Senior Electrical Engineer

Sense

Cambridge, massachusetts


Job Details

Full-time


Full Job Description

Product Development | Cambridge, MA, United States

Our mission at Sense is to make all homes intelligent by keeping people informed about what's happening in their homes, and helping to make homes safer, more efficient, and more reliable.

At Sense, we are serious about having a real impact on climate change.

Sense was founded in 2013 by pioneers in speech recognition technologies. This background provides the team with the intuition needed to connect and unlock key data significance relating to home energy efficiency. Sense uses machine learning technology to provide real-time insights on device behavior. Customers rely on Sense for a wide range of uses including monitoring their home appliances, determining whether they left appliances running, and identifying how to reduce their energy costs.

Job Description

As an Electrical Engineer, you will be a member of a small team involved in all aspects of design, verification, certification, testing, and support of Sense products in utility meters and energy infrastructure.

This position will be onsite at our Cambridge office, conveniently located in Central Square.

We are looking for someone who is:

  • Experienced in electrical engineering and collaborating with electrical engineering teams
  • Motivated to build and develop performant, world-class designs
  • Passionate about the energy sector and climate change

What you’ll do:

  • Design, simulation, and verification of RF switching and amplification subsystems
  • Simulate RF performance of designs using an RF simulator such as Ansys HFSS
  • Engineering support for design, layout, component selection, and manufacturing
  • Coordinate and work closely with internal firmware teams and our partners
  • Work in a fast-paced, agile, highly iterative development environment

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience as an electrical engineer
  • Great communication skills
  • Self-motivated with a desire to learn
  • BA/BS or masters degree in EE or relevant field
  • Demonstrated experience with RF design and simulation (2 - 6 GHz), including PCB transformers and antennas
  • Designed and simulated PCB antenna or couplers 
  • Switching power supply, microprocessor, and data acquisition experience is a plus

Benefits

  • Flexible time away policy
  • Paid parental leave.
  • A wide range of difficult and interesting problems to be solved.
  • Work with a small team of experienced entrepreneurs creating revolutionary technology.
  • Great opportunity to gain experience at a consumer smart home startup.
  • Competitive compensation and generous healthcare benefits.
  • A great office in Central Square in Cambridge, MA right by the Red Line
  • Compensation 140k to 170k
  • Stock Options and 401k with up to 10k match

Why Sense

Join Sense and be part of our mission to reduce global carbon emissions by making homes smart and more efficient. Our energy data and tools demystify home energy use, empower people to take command of their usage, and enable utilities to build a cleaner and more resilient grid.

Sense supports a diverse and inclusive workplace where we all learn from each other. We welcome candidates with backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in tech, and we strive to foster an engaging, respectful and supportive community where everyone feels empowered to do their best work. Sense is committed to be an equal opportunity employer.

  • Be a part of building something that will make a difference in the world.
  • Have a big impact at a VC-backed consumer startup that's doing big things:
    • Best Startups in Cambridge - Tech Tribune
    • "One of the world's top 100 AI companies" - VentureBeat
    • Clean Tech Company of the Year - New England Venture Capital Association
    • 50 on Fire - BostInno
    • Top 100 - Red Herring
    • Best Consumer AI Technology - AI Dev World
    • Global Cleantech 100

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