job_060414a: Senior Electrical Engineer, MindTribe, San Francisco CA

From: Kristin Burns <kristin.burns_at_stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:59:36 -0700

>I'm Adam, an electrical engineering manager at
>Mindtribe. Let me tell you about what we do, and why I love to work here.
>
>Mindtribe is a product development consultancy:
>a tightly integrated team of electrical,
>mechanical and firmware engineers developing
>innovative technology products. At the core of
>Mindtribes method is a change-tolerant
>development process. Not only are our teams
>accepting of new inputs, we actively seek
>them–technology-related learnings, what the
>competition iis doing, changing business needs,
>and most importantly, what customers want.
>Clients come to Mindtribe wanting to be
>technology leaders, and they look to us to help
>them define, design and build their next big thing.
>
>We are looking for electrical engineers who have
>the right skills, who are excited about what
>we're doing and how we're doing it, who will
>mesh well with our team, and who are ready to
>grow with us. Is this you? You know it is when
>you love the same things about your work as we
>do. Here is what I love about working at Mindtribe.
>
>
>I love working in a collaborative environment with other badass engineers.
>
>Hey, come take a look at this. What do you
>think?I'm working on a schematic for a prototype
>of a tiny new product. The switching power
>supply is millimeters away from the RF
>transceiver. It's going to be a sensitive
>layout, and proper bypassing and optimized
>routing will be key to reducing coupling from
>the regulator into the RF receiver. I can rely
>on my coworkers for clever ideas, design
>reviews, and troubleshooting support when I need it. And they rely on me.
>
>I love challenging electrical engineering problems.
>
>I'm working on an inductive charger for a
>medical device. If the firmware ever locks up,
>even during development, the primary coil might
>be physically destroyed by an over-current
>condition. I need to design a robust mechanism
>that detects the dangerous condition, and
>instantly overrides the microcontroller's MOSFET
>gate control signal without interfering with the rest of the system.
>
>I love constantly learning.
>
>Henry Otts Electromagnetic Compatibility sits on
>a desk. I open up to shielding techniques. This
>is good stuff. I say, I'm going to read it cover
>to cover. My coworkers are skeptical. I'm giving
>it a try anyway, because it's something I don't know much about.
>
>
>I love wearing more than one engineering hat.
>
>I pop open SolidWorks. I open the solid model of
>the product for which I'm designing the
>electrical system. Got a sec to look at this?
>The lead ME on the project pulls his chair next
>to mine. We're looking at how to add a cable
>shield connection across a very small and
>physically constrained interposer board with a USB micro-b connector.
>
>I don't love upside-down ground symbols.
>
>I open a reference schematic from a vendor. I
>cringe because there are ground symbols facing
>sideways. At least they aren't upside-down, I
>think to myself. I love a schematic that tells you what it does.
>
>
>I love working with engineers who are passionate about their work.
>
>We're at our weekly happy hour. We've been
>having an intense 45-minute discussion, napkin
>sketches and all, about how a higher F-stop in a
>camera increases depth of field.
>
>
>I love that my work is not the only important thing in my life.
>
>I race a little sailing dinghy with around San
>Francisco Bay with my wife. I play music in a
>band. I routinely explore the vast culinary
>landscape of San Francisco. My job is not my
>life, but one makes the other even better.
>
>Do you love the same things I do? If so, send us
>an email atÂ
><mailto:mtjobs_at_mindtribe.com>mtjobs_at_mindtribe.comÂ
>to tell us about yourself, and why you'd be excited to do what we do.
>
>We're looking for senior EE's, which means
>you've done all of the following. You've worked
>for more than a few years on designing
>electronics for embedded systems. You've
>architected systems with microcontrollers and
>sensors. You've overseen multi-layer board
>layout. You've led teams of electrical designers.
>
>I̢۪m eager to hear from you


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