Staff Electrical Engineer, Lightship
$195-220k
+ equity
3-5 days a week in office
Electric RV manufacturer
Job no longer available
Electric RV manufacturer
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$195-220k
+ equity
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Lightspeed's mission is to electrify the RV.
Role
Who you are
- As a Staff Electrical Engineer, you are comfortable designing, building, and testing control and communication circuitry
- You are scrappy and eager to be hands-on in a program’s early stages as well as willing to evolve as the program moves into production
- BS, MS (preferred), or above in Electrical Engineering
- Minimum 10 years experience as an electrical design engineer
- Excellent knowledge of electrical schematics and control circuitry
- Proven experience in microprocessor and associated peripheral design
- Understanding of communication hardware interfaces such as ADC, CAN, SPI, I2C, WiFi, and Bluetooth
- Highly experienced in circuit simulation
- Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium
- Understanding of EMI/EMC
Desirable
- Experience with high voltage sensing circuits
- Comfortable with high voltage test equipment
- General understanding of electric power systems
- General understanding of automotive standards for PCBAs
- You are self-directed and are motivated to design the best system possible
- You bring an entrepreneurial mindset to your work and are comfortable with uncertainty
What the job involves
- You will provide technical leadership, work closely with the software team, and help hasten our path to market with an exceptional vehicle that redefines RVing
- Create board requirements from high level product requirement
- Electrical component analysis and selection
- Design main control and interface circuitry for vehicle
- Design and/or support design of PCBs
- Fully bench test and validate completed PCBAs
- Work closely with software team to verify functionality
- Develop and execute a test suite to ensure performance and reliability
- Support integration testing via data analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging
- Support supplier management and requirements definition
- Provide input in manufacturing of PCBAs
- Help with EMC design and testing
- Collaborate with other teams to optimize system design
- Lead circuit design reviews
- Technical mentorship and guidance to growing team of engineers
Our take
Mobile homes and camper vans have become a great way to travel and vacation at a lower cost and carbon footprint. However, there is still an efficiency problem with the vehicles involved. Due to the extra weight that a trailer creates, vehicles become less energy-efficient in their mileage. Lightship RVs aim to solve that problem with their range of RVs, maximising mileage efficiency and creating comfortable trailer units in the process.
Founded by former Tesla engineers, the purpose-built travel trailers Lightship is building have their own self-propulsion system that enables near-zero loss in mile-per-gallon efficiency for the vehicle it’s attached to. With an 80 kWh battery installed in the trailer, it can ensure that a 300-mile range electric vehicle remains just that. In the process, this reduces the anxiety associated with the possibility of a trailer decreasing the mileage per charge.
It is early days for Lightship, which was founded in 2020, with its first edition AE1 Cosmos released in 2024. The proof will be in the sales then, but with $61 million in funding to accelerate its development, Lightship’s road to success looks smooth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2025
$23m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $80.1m
Company benefits
- Healthcare, Dental, Vision (full time only)
- 401k
- Unlimited Paid Time Off that we actually want you to use! 3-4 weeks is common at Lightship
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $2,000 per year towards an RV trip of your own, we call this a LightTrip (full time only)
Company HQ
Broomfield, CO
Leadership
Toby Kraus
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Eclipse Ventures, Vice President at Proterra, Senior Manager at Tesla, and Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Benjamin Parker
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla and Team Leader at Dartmouth Formula Racing.
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