Electrical Engineer, Mill
$195-225k
Office located in San Bruno, CA
Food waste recycling company
Be an early applicant
Food waste recycling company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-225k
Office located in San Bruno, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent
- 4+ years of hands-on experience on production hardware products, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership through bring-up and validation
- Proficient in schematic capture and PCB layout in Altium or equivalent
- Solid experience with microprocessors, sensor integration, motor control, and embedded systems
- Comfort working with AC power systems and an understanding of relevant safety considerations
- Able to independently bring up and debug new hardware; strong bench proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, multimeters, thermal imaging, and data acquisition; hands-on with PCB rework and cable assembly
- Strong communicator; able to operate in ambiguous problem spaces, synthesize requirements, and drive closure with limited oversight
Desirable
- Scripting proficiency in Python and embedded C/C++ for test automation, data analysis, and prototype firmware
- High-power appliance, commercial equipment, or industrial product development experience
- Safety certification experience (UL, ETL, FCC, CE, IC) — including pre-compliance testing, EMI debug, and cert lab management
- Thermal system design - component derating, temperature sensing and control, PCB layout for heat dissipation, and heatsink selection
- Designing interlock and safety architectures for certified appliances
- Industrial communication protocols (Modbus, RS-485, CAN)
- Experience with Jetson, Raspberry Pi CM, or other embedded compute platforms integrated into hardware systems
- Startup experience preferred
What the job involves
- As an Electrical Engineer at Mill, you will own the power, sensing, and control layer of our hardware — the systems that keep the product working reliably in real kitchens. You’ll carry designs from schematic capture through DVT closure and production transition, working hands-on alongside mechanical, firmware, and systems engineers to root-cause issues across circuits and full-system behavior
- Lead board bring-up, validation, and rework tracking; debug and root-cause issues across circuits, firmware integration points, and full-system behavior
- Own production-intent electrical design - schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, and DFM
- Design and validate multi-rail power architectures
- Design and implement sensing and mechatronic platforms
- Design with certification in mind (UL, ETL, FCC, EU, Canada)
- Contribute to design reviews, EVT/DVT/PVT readiness, and the transition from prototype to production
- Partner cross-functionally with mechanical, firmware, controls, science, operations, and product teams to make architecture and tradeoff decisions
- Support relationships with ODMs, CMs, PCB fab/assembly vendors, and component distributors; contribute to component sourcing, alternates qualification, and DFM feedback
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
Mill is only available in the US, but since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(Founder & President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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