TECHEAD
Electrical Hardware Engineer (Hybrid Remote)
Rockville, District of Columbia, US
Role snapshot
TECHEAD is hiring a Electrical Hardware Engineer (Hybrid Remote) on a full-time basis. This is a remote role open to candidates in US.
- Company
- TECHEAD
- Location
- Rockville, District of Columbia, US
- Work mode
- Remote
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Posted
- Nov 6, 2026
Who this role suits
Practitioners with a few years behind them who can work independently, make trade-offs and help newer teammates.
How to prepare your application
- Prepare examples of decisions you drove, how you measured the result, and how you worked with other teams.
- Be ready to discuss trade-offs and scope, not only the tools you have used.
- Read what TECHEAD publishes about its product or team, so you can say clearly why this role and this company.
- For remote roles, show that you communicate clearly in writing and can work without close supervision.
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About the role
This position allows for 3 days per week remote / work from home.
For a complete understanding of this opportunity, and what will be required to be a successful applicant, read on.
Salary: $100,000 - 130,000/year
We are seeking a detail-oriented and self-motivated Electrical Design Engineer with around 3 years of hands-on experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will play a key part in the complete hardware development lifecycle—from initial architectural concepts and schematic capture to complex PCB layout, prototyping, and lab bring-up.
The ideal candidate possesses strong core electrical engineering fundamentals, demonstrated proficiency with Altium Designer, and a track record of taking multi-layer board designs from concept through successful production.
Responsibilities
- Design and layout complex, multi-layer printed circuit boards (PCBs) using Altium Designer, ensuring compliance with signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), and EMC/EMI best practices.
- Select optimal active/passive components, microcontrollers, power management ICs, and connectors. Create and maintain Altium schematic symbol and PCB footprint libraries adhering to IPC standards.
- Board bring-up, debugging, testing, and validation of prototype hardware in the lab using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and multimeter equipment.
- Collaborate with external PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers (CMs) to produce manufacturing deliverables (Gerbers, ODB++, IPC-2581, BOMs, assembly drawings) and resolve fabrication queries.
- Design low-power DC-DC converters, linear regulators, mixed-signal circuits, and high-speed digital interfaces (e.g., SPI, I2C, UART, USB, Ethernet, CAN).
- Lead and participate in peer design reviews (schematic and PCB layout). Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, test plans, and engineering change orders (ECOs).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Computer Engineering (BSCE), or a related technical field.
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in hardware development and PCB design.
- Demonstrated proficiency with Altium Designer (schematic capture, PCB layout, layer stackup configuration, rules/constraints, and manufacturing output generation).
- Hands-on experience with lab equipment for board debugging, signal validation, and surface-mount soldering/rework (SMD components down to 0402/0201 packages).
- Strong understanding of standard embedded communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, USB, CAN). xuwmhxw