Electrical Engineering Lead
About M3 Design
M3 Design is a consultancy that brings world-class products to life for clients across healthcare, lifestyle, and industrial markets. Our multidisciplinary team blends engineering with industrial design and UI/UX to go far beyond basic engineering.
Location: Austin, TX | Full-time | Hybrid
Why This Role Is Exciting
- You’ll lead electrical designs while collaborating with creative, capable teammates who have deep engineering background and experience. We love brainstorming and problem-solving together to make each design high-performance and elegant. When there is tedious work, we pitch in and help each other knock it out.
- We do medical devices, consumer products, and capital equipment. If you love the thrill of a project in a totally new industry, you will like working here.
- We usually develop first-generation designs and hand off before sustaining phases.
What you’ll do…
- Architect, design, and debug custom electrical hardware for client products—hands-on and by guiding contractors and ODMs/JDMs.
- Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to shape compelling proposals.
- Flex into other areas when your aptitudes and business needs align.
Who you are
- Analytical, curious, creative, and driven. You want to understand the user, system, and client’s needs and business to develop the most effective design.
- A strong collaborator who would rather develop relationships than fly solo. You work well with people at all levels, inside and outside of your company.
- A researcher that studies available knowledge before launching your design.
- You start with simple models and analysis and add complexity as needed. You decide when prototypes and test beds are needed and maximize their value/effort.
- A fact-based, polished communicator.
- Committed to implementing designs optimally through the final details.
- Versatile. You do things like project management, designing in another discipline, testing and system integration, writing code, or analysis and simulation when needed.
Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering (Master’s preferred, related degrees considered with appropriate experience).
- 5+ years of experience designing electrical hardware and/or embedded systems (less could be acceptable for exceptional candidates).
- Broad foundational knowledge across EE (high-speed digital, mixed-signal, analog, and power) with deep experience and understanding of at least one boundary-pushing project or product development.
- PCB schematic and layout design (Altium or OrCad+Allegro preferred).
- Board bring-up, testing, troubleshooting from system to component level.
- Ability to prepare and release complete design packages (schematics, BOMs, PCB fab packages, analysis reports, etc.).
- Firmware, software, scripting, or data analysis skills are a plus.
- Experience in a regulated, documentation-heavy industry is a plus.
- Willingness to travel occasionally (5–10%).
What We’d Love to See
Along with your resume, please share examples of your work—a portfolio, case studies, schematics, or project stories—that show how you think and solve problems.
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