Senior Hardware/Electronics Engineer

San Mateo, CA, US

Job Description / Skills Required

GoPro is seeking a top-tier Senior Hardware/Electronics Engineer to join a team working to ensure that our world-class products continue to outpace the competition. You’ll work with our highly professional, experienced design team and help GoPro advance the technology for high performance, small form-factor, ruggedized cameras.

What You Will Do

  • Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary electronics design team to develop new product architecture. For example:
    • Display systems
    • Human interface components
    • Power distribution
    • Battery
  • Focus on efficient power distributions and develop power-supply techniques to optimize for battery-powered efficiency.
  • Work with battery vendors and engineers to specify/prototype/build future technology battery components for our cameras.
  • Manage prototype CM build and validation work during development.

 

Skills We’re Excited About

  • BSEE 
  • 5+ years of experience in electronics design
  • Solid grounding and proven experience in power conversion, distribution, optimization.
  • Ability to work in a fast-moving environment. 
  • Adaptable to collaborate in all aspects of a project. Specification, design, bring-up, transition to production, support etc.
  • Ability to quickly turn-around prototypes to prove own designs. 
  • Ability to write rudimentary firmware to support own designs.
  • Experience of working with semiconductor manufacturers to maintain relationships. Also, to select, design-in and prove design for complex components.
  • Excellent verbal, written communication skills – able to condense and describe investigations and results concisely and accurately.

Bonus Points For

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Experience with design of consumer products
  • Experience with battery-powered products

 

GoPro Highlights

  • Get your very own GoPro camera + gear
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance – premiums are 100% paid for employees, 80% paid for dependents
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Generous time off policy
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave for new parents
  • Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) options
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • LiveHealthy monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Innovative remote-friendly wellness classes and events
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning
  • Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events)

Why Work With Us?

Create your own destiny. GoPro enables you and trusts you to get your own job done, because we believe that autonomy in role brings out the best in our employees.

Live your best life. We’ve adopted remote and flexible work arrangements to support work at GoPro alongside our commitment to supporting employee wellbeing, belonging and connection with one another.

Work with leading edge technologies. We encourage employees to cultivate and use the latest and greatest technology, to provide the best solutions to serve our customers. We celebrate creative solutions that bring innovation to GoPro technology.

GoPro Highlights

  • Get your very own GoPro camera + gear
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance – premiums are 100% paid for employees, 80% paid for dependents
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Generous time off policy
  • 12 weeks paid parental leave for new parents
  • Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) options
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • LiveHealthy monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Innovative remote-friendly wellness classes and events
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning, technology trainings, certifications, Peer-to-Peer learning, conferences and more
  • Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events)

We strive for the day that no group can be described as underrepresented at GoPro – whether as part of our brand or in our workforce. We are committed to providing a more inclusive, representative, equal, just, and happy world. GoPro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The pay range for this role is between $127,500 – $172,500. Actual pay within the range is dependent on multiple factors, including your residence location and prior work experience. Equity, benefits, and a discretionary bonus may be additional forms of compensation for this role and are not included in the provided pay range.