Senior Electrical Engineer

About the position

Safe Fleet develops innovative electronics for the emergency vehicle market, including lighting systems, pressure governors, sensor-based controls, and other mission-critical components. Our products help fire, EMS, and utility professionals operate more safely and efficiently in the field. We’re growing and looking for a hands-on Senior Electrical Engineer to help lead product development while managing a small team of engineers. As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the design and development of embedded electronic products—from concepts through production. You'll lead electrical architecture decisions, oversee PCB development, and guide a team of 2–3 engineers. This is a technical leadership role for someone passionate about building reliable, field-ready products and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop embedded electronic systems for products such as vehicle lighting, pressure governors, sensors, and control modules.
• Drive hardware development, including schematic design, PCB layout functional and system level testing.
• Lead technical decision-making and provide day-to-day guidance for a team of 2–3 engineers.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineers, software developers, manufacturing engineers, and product managers to deliver robust, manufacturable solutions.
• Define product architectures, select components (microcontrollers, sensors, drivers, etc.), and ensure performance and regulatory compliance.
• Manage development schedules, priorities, and resource planning for your team.
• Support product testing, validation, and transition to manufacturing.
• Improve development processes, documentation, and design standards.
• Develop and maintain HW component, system level specifications and functional test plans.
• Work with teams to improve techniques and drive engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of microcontroller-based hardware design. (e.g. ARM family of processors)
• Strong understanding of electronic design for EMC / EMI compliance
• Hands-on experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools (e.g., Altium).
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a team environment.
• Strong understanding of communication protocols (CAN, I2C, SPI, UART, etc.).
• Experience integrating wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular, LoRa).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Strong understanding of SoC integration challenges at subsystem and full chip level.
• Experience with test equipment such as signal generators, multimeters, oscilloscopes, etc.
• Hands-on experience with laboratory test and debug.

Nice-to-haves

• Background in automotive, off-road, industrial, or emergency vehicle systems.
• Familiarity with sensors, power electronics, and motor control applications is a plus.
• Exposure to safety and regulatory standards such as SAE, UL, CE and FCC.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

Benefits

• 401k
• health_insurance
• paid_holidays
• professional_development