Senior Application Engineer

JITX is transforming hardware design by letting electrical engineers write code to design electronics. This new way of design captures expert hardware engineering knowledge and makes it reusable, and scalable like software. Our vision at JITX is to automate hardware design for the benefit of science and the welfare of humanity. Dedicated to solving difficult problems with huge impact, our first step is to automate circuit board design.

Application Engineer: Electrical Engineering

We are seeking an innovative Application Engineer with a background in Electrical Engineering to serve as a technical bridge between our product and our customers. A critical role in our team, it is equally important to hit the ground running. You will come equipped with deep knowledge of circuit boards. You will learn JITX and our programming language, Stanza, quickly to bring customers into the activation phase.

This role may be customer facing, creates engaging demonstrations, tracks feedback to our Product Manager, and contributes to our documentation library. Documentation maintenance looks like taking input from customer success and creating examples to respond to questions or feedback. You will be a single person responsible for making sure documents are updated with new features. A successful candidate will be flexible to the needs of our organization, while technically proficient, and excellent communication skills.

You would use JITX to build new and exciting examples of design, craft content and onboard our new customers -- showing off the power of using a programming language for hardware design. Expect projects like creating small to complex designs as quickly as possible, generating analog circuits for signal processing, scripting microvia BGA fanouts. You will build starting examples of designs and build documentation around these to assist users where stuck or consistent feedback. You’ll partner with internal and external expert electrical engineers - we want you to be coding focused but have some basic experience designing your own electronics.

This role is anticipated to be a Mid- Senior Level Individual Contributor candidate hire showcasing multiple years of industry experience additional to academic. Eligible candidates would be able to speak through a project that they took from start to finish in areas of a motor controller, FPGA board, board using a Jetson or similar SoM as examples of their work.

Preference to local Bay Area candidates will be given. This candidate will be expected to be local (or relocated from another state within the USA).

Summary of Responsibilities and Qualifications

Provide comprehensive technical support to customers, including answering questions. Create examples to illustrate usage of features.

Participate in building customer demos, helping to identify bottlenecks as we scale.

Design small to complex design project examples that can be documented, with user feedback.

Own the documentation process, ensuring deep product knowledge is reflected through clear, helpful, and accurate documentation. Updates are timely with new features.

Collaborate with Customer Success to update documentation based on customer feedback, with relevant examples and instructions. Ideal documentation intends that as we build our product that guidance through trial becomes hands off.

Maintain responsibility for documentation reflecting product enhancements. Updates with new features and common questions are served. Contribute to application engineering efforts by building and documenting starting examples to the JITX standard library.

Partner with Customer Success in ensuring that trial users are getting the most out of their tool. Activation means that they have applied a real project and navigated features and integration smoothly.

A pivotal role in shaping the interaction between JITX and our users. Serve as the primary technical point of contact for users. Provide a hands-on, white glove experience with new customers as they go through the trial and become a user. Maintaining contact, ensuring continued activation.

Mission Driven: Genuine excitement in our mission and what we are doing. Knowing the capabilities of JITX and how it can be applied to a customer workflow will be your metric to success.

Documentation and Content Accuracy: This role will become the single point of contact representing the integrity of new features and that documentation is up to date. Build and document starting examples, expanding and maintaining the JITX standard library of designs.

Coding Skills: Wide breadth of experience in software development in your board design, such as Python, C, C++, firmware, RTL. While not necessary to be a Git master, you need to understand how to create PRs, push/pull, make commits and be able to craft code scripts.

Circuit Board Design: Requiring 4+ years of design experience (industry) in circuit board design. Ability to speak through designs shipped from prototype to production.

Experienced at all phases of hardware product engineering including architecture, management, PCB design, schematic, layout, routing, bring up, validation, test, manufacturing, debugging, scripting, software development, firmware, and more.

Please showcase any projects!

Education: Degree or degrees in Electrical Engineering.

Selection Process

Portfolio or Sample of work (Designs preferred, coding samples, technical writing samples)

Talent Vetting (with Head of People + Talent)

Onsite Interview / Collaboration

Team Meet & Greet to follow

References

Offer Readiness

Process may be modified and / or extended at any given time.

Relocation Policy: Preference to local Bay Area candidates will be given. This candidate will be expected to be local (or relocated from another state within the USA)

Immigration Policy: As an employer committed to diversity and talent acquisition, we welcome applications from individuals requiring visa sponsorship. Our immigration policy ensures fair and equitable treatment for all candidates, regardless of their immigration status. Selected applicants will receive full support and assistance throughout the visa sponsorship process, reflecting our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

EEOC Policy:At JITX, we celebrate and support differences. We are learning everyday by drawing on our differences in who we are, what we've experienced, and how we think to make JITX thrive. JITX is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.

3rd Party / Agency Policy: We do not accept resumes represented by headhunter and agencies. JITX will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with JITX. If you have a candidate with interest in JITX, they are encouraged to apply on their own.