Senior Electrical Engineer, Butlr
$150-200k
Office located in Burlingame, CA
AI data platform for anonymous ambient sensing
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AI data platform for anonymous ambient sensing
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
Office located in Burlingame, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable smarter buildings and an increased quality of life by making spaces people-aware without compromising privacy.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field
- A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in hardware design and testing, preferably in an embedded systems environment
- Proven, hands-on track record troubleshooting and resolving complex hardware issues at the system level
- Demonstrated experience managing external vendors and manufacturing partners, including technical escalations, design reviews, and holding suppliers to spec
- Experience developing, executing, and documenting system-level test plans, including some RF or wireless testing (e.g. range, interference, throughput, link reliability)
- Demonstrated experience and understanding in circuit design, power design, sensor integration, and noise filtering techniques
- Strong communication, project management, and documentation skills — able to drive workstreams to schedule and produce clear test plans, reports, and root-cause analyses others can rely on
- Experience providing technical management or direction to test engineers, including a remote or overseas office across time zones
- Comfortable working in embedded Linux environments, with baseline embedded microcontroller experience and familiarity with the associated toolchains
What the job involves
- This role enhances the reliability and performance of our hardware systems, with a heavy emphasis on system-level troubleshooting, vendor management, and test plan development — particularly for RF/wireless subsystems and battery/low-power design
- You'll be the technical owner for diagnosing complex hardware issues across our sensor and gateway products, the primary technical contact for our suppliers and manufacturing partners, and the architect of the test plans that validate everything from RF and power behavior to reliability
- It's a cross-functional role that rewards strong project management and disciplined documentation
- System Debug & Test
- Own end-to-end debug of complex, intermittent, system-level hardware failures, driving root-cause investigation across hardware, firmware, RF, and manufacturing domains, and validating fixes before deployment
- Develop, execute, and document comprehensive system-level test plans — functional, RF/wireless, environmental, power, battery, and reliability — with clear pass/fail criteria and the fixtures and instrumentation to validate hardware at the bench, in the chamber, and in the field
- Vendor & Team Management
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for component suppliers, chipset vendors, and contract manufacturers — leading design reviews, driving escalations, and holding vendors accountable to specs and commitments
- Provide technical management and direction to test engineers, including at our remote/overseas office, coordinating work across time zones to keep validation aligned with program schedules
- Project Management & Documentation
- Plan and drive validation and debug workstreams to schedule, defining milestones, tracking dependencies, and communicating status across stakeholders
- Author and maintain clear technical documentation and repeatable processes, and contribute to hardware design review and NPI/manufacturing readiness (DFM feedback, test fixtures, production line issues)
Our take
Butlr, an Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) company, leverages a wireless heat sensor and AI which detects human presence and movement to gauge how space is being used.
The tech is targeted predominantly towards enterprise clients who want to better understand how their commercial and office spaces are functioning, as well as for fall detection in senior care. Crucially, Butlr’s sensor does not capture any personally identifiable information – which should help its popularity with employees and occupants.
Though it’s not the only company to make inroads in the workspace and spatial analytics niche, it's encouraging that Butlr has been able to land big clients in the form of Georgia Pacific and Carrier. Having completed major fundraises, Butlr is growing steadily and appears to have a strong future ahead of it.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$7m
LATE VC
Aug 2024
$38m
SERIES B
Total funding: $78.4m
Company benefits
- Gold Health, Vision, and Dental
- Generous PTO & Sick Leave
- 401K plan
- Commuter benefits
- Equity incentives
- Parental leave
- San Francisco & Boston Offices
- Remote friendly team
Company HQ
Country Club Manor, Hillsborough, CA
Leadership
Honghao Deng
(CEO & Co-Founder)Forbes 30 under 30. Former Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab (from which Butlr emerged). Former Research Scientist at Airbnb.
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