Electrical Engineer II

SimpliSafe is seeking an Electrical Engineer II to help shape security-focused products across the full lifecycle, from early concept through production. In this hybrid role based in Boston, MA, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and support prototype testing to ensure designs meet performance, cost, and schedule targets.

You will also contribute to system-level design and help translate requirements into clear, actionable work for your scope. The role includes evaluating design tradeoffs, supporting manufacturing readiness, and continuously improving electrical and system execution as the product scales.

What you’ll do

• Contribute to the full lifecycle design of security-focused products, from concept through production.
• Analyze tradeoffs between design alternatives and escalate key considerations to senior engineers or leads, including impacts to performance, schedule, cost, risk, complexity, and scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including mechanical, firmware, industrial design, sourcing, and product management.
• Support product development from early-stage concept through prototyping, testing, and production, helping ensure alignment with requirements, cost, and schedule targets.
• Develop and execute prototype testing, including designing test strategies to validate product performance and resolve issues.
• Participate in design reviews and work discussions with suppliers and global manufacturing partners to optimize designs for mass production.
• Flag resource or knowledge gaps to leads and engage appropriate subject-matter experts when needed.
• Support communication and design execution with global manufacturing partners.
• Contribute to the Technical Requirements Document in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Support product architecture and system-level design to align with product requirements, performance goals, and cross-functional constraints.
• Translate system requirements into detailed, actionable tasks and deliverables for your scope.
• Support risk identification and mitigation activities within your area of the program.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, sensors, and manufacturing processes to inform product design.
• Drive your own workstreams forward with a reasonable sense of urgency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience, ideally including exposure to consumer products.
• Familiarity with optimizing designs for battery operation with low power usage.
• Experience contributing to the design and development of complex systems from concept toward mass production.
• Exposure to design validation planning, including test coverage across electrical, RF, connectivity, audio, or imaging subsystems.
• Ability to contribute effectively both at a systems level and hands-on technically.
• Experience in embedded systems design, including design with UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, SDIO, MIPI, etc.
• Familiarity with RF technologies including Sub-GHz, WiFi, and BLE.
• Strong preference for candidates with a demonstrated bias for action.

Technologies

• UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, SDIO, MIPI, Sub-GHz, WiFi, BLE

Travel

• Willing to travel to manufacturing partners in China 1–3 times per year.

Compensation

• USD 84,900 - 113,200 per year

Benefits

• Mission- and values-driven culture with a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow, and thrive.
• Comprehensive total rewards package supporting wellness and providing security for SimpliSafers and their families.
• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that support networking, mentoring and development, and advocacy for change.

Values

• Customer Obsessed - build deep empathy for customers and keep them at the core of the work.
• Aim High - challenge ourselves and others to raise the bar.
• No Ego - maintain a “no job too small” attitude with an open, inclusive, humble approach.
• One Team - succeed through a highly collaborative approach.
• Lift As We Climb - invest in developing others and helping teammates succeed.
• Lean & Nimble - work with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.