Senior Electrical Engineer
Posted Aug 20, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you brought up a new embedded board from bare metal. What went wrong first, and how did you find it?
What they are checking: real bring-up experience and debugging instinct, since this role spans hardware and initial software integration
Tell me about a project where you worked on a small team of one to six people and had to wear more than one hat. How did you decide what to take on yourself versus hand off?
What they are checking: fit for a lean, multi-disciplinary team structure with minimal hierarchy
Describe a time you had to explain a technical status or setback directly to a customer. How did you frame it?
What they are checking: comfort and skill communicating with customers directly, which this role requires without a buffer layer
What would you do
Say you're routing a board with a high speed interface next to a noisy power section, and you're running out of layer stack-up. How do you approach the layout tradeoffs?
What they are checking: practical PCB layout judgment around impedance matching and power routing, and whether they can reason through constraints out loud
You're two weeks from a customer demo and initial HW/SW integration turns up a signal integrity issue that only shows up under load. What do you do?
What they are checking: how they prioritize under deadline pressure and whether they can isolate a hard-to-reproduce problem
Tell me about a time a project's scope or requirements changed significantly partway through. How did you adjust your design?
What they are checking: flexibility across varied, shifting projects, which the posting explicitly says is part of the job
This role requires being onsite five days a week and eventually obtaining a security clearance as a U.S. citizen. What questions do you have about that, and is there anything about that setup that gives you pause?
What they are checking: whether the candidate has fully absorbed the onsite and clearance requirements and is realistic about them
About the work
Walk me through a low power digital or analog circuit you designed where battery life was a hard constraint. What choices did you make to cut current drain, and what did you have to give up to get there?
What they are checking: whether the candidate has real hands-on experience trading off power against performance, not just textbook knowledge
Tell me about a schematic you built that combined a microprocessor, an FPGA, RF, and analog sections. How did you manage the interfaces between those domains?
What they are checking: depth of experience integrating mixed-signal, multi-domain designs, which is the core of this job
What layout and simulation tools have you actually used day to day, and where have Cadence, Sigrity, ADS, or PSPICE fallen short for you?
What they are checking: honest fluency with the specific toolchain versus résumé keyword matching
Describe a board you designed that used USB, MIPI, SPI, and I2C together. What issues came up getting those interfaces to coexist cleanly?
What they are checking: whether they've actually wired and debugged these specific interfaces rather than just listing them
Walk me through how you'd write a test procedure or interface control document for a new peripheral you just brought online.
What they are checking: documentation discipline and whether they think about handoff and repeatability, not just getting it working once
What lab equipment do you reach for first when a board is misbehaving, and can you walk me through a real debugging session using a scope or JTAG debugger?
What they are checking: hands-on lab fluency versus theoretical knowledge of the tools listed
Have you written test or bring-up scripts in Python or LabVIEW? Tell me about one that saved you real time.
What they are checking: practical lab automation skill, which the posting calls out specifically
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